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Jack Haynes (24.4.254.167)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 12:35 am: | |
I notice some people talking about going to home depot and picking a home unit for under $400 and it performs as well as a Dometic or Norcold designed specifically for motor homes. If so how could threre be a market for the latter? I f I can go with the generic home style I sure would like the savings. Jack |
jmaxwell (66.42.92.19)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 1:18 am: | |
These people are talking about a strictly 110v compressor style refrig. If u are going to be a dry-camper or boondocker, the cost of the solar system to operate this frig. will set u back a couple of Dometics, and probably leave u shaking your head in the winter. If u are going all elec. w/solar, I would recommend the SunFrost frig., but you will spend more for it than a Dometic, about 1800-2000 if u shop |
Scott Whitney (63.151.64.84)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 1:32 am: | |
In other words, it boils down to whether you have plenty of cheap and easy electricty (go with a household refer) or will require the use of propane for refrigeration (go RV style, two or three-way).
Scott |
FAST FRED (63.208.82.131)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 5:43 am: | |
THE variable is how long one needs to boondock.
For a O'nite stop in the Wallmart "campground" an inverter and normal sized batts will do OK .
But the household box will require about 100A a day from the system so one needs a 200+A batt for every 24 hour day of boondockin.
OR at least 2 solar pannels for the fridge , and another 1 for each person abord , for lights TV ect.
Good large solar pannels are about $500 each , and the regulator is another $50 to $100.
And an E- meter or some good method of figuring out battery condition is another $ 150 to $200.
Add Hydro caps , pulse charger and the total begins to add up.
The only consolation is that with solar pumping the batts during the day , the batts will only go down 25% before recharge , and if thats the deepest discharge {25%] the batts WILL last a decade , if they were top notch batts .
A Servelle or Dometic is loads cheaper , if all one needs is a months worth of boondocking at a time.
FAST FRED |
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