A good friend of mine has spent the last year living out the back of a full sized Chevy Silverado, and has recently upgraded to a suburban! A committed dirt bag, he's looking to add a fridge and solar to the rig in this build out, and of course the isolated battery set up illustrated in the wonderfully entertaining thread on this forum (have a beer!).
Most of the threads I've read are geared to the weekend warrior, people talking about running their fridge for two or three days. Since we're looking at full time year round usage.... Any advice?
I think we're homing in on 200 watts of solar, likely the renogy kit, and about 200ah of battery, likely an agm battery but nothing's purchased yet. From a cost standpoint still weighing going the 6v golf cart route.
I know 200 watts of solar won't cut it, hoping the alternator can pick up the slack during daily commuting, but still, I have concerns about the batteries draining down over time, especially in the winter as he's hanging out in the Northeast.
Fridge:
https://www.engelcoolers.com/mr040f-u1.html
Solar kit:
https://www.renogy.com/renogy-200-w...N0No1LyH6ZQLRfuFSDnY4mHZa8t2xzLRoCW80QAvD_BwE
Battery:
Open to suggestions...
So, he's lived for a year on not much, we're aiming to help improve the quality of life a bit but as you can imagine money is an issue. My main concern is that this system won't achieve what he needs, which is running a fridge, and will end up being money wasted.
So, are we close? How big do we need to go to run a fridge non stop?
Thanks all!
Most of the threads I've read are geared to the weekend warrior, people talking about running their fridge for two or three days. Since we're looking at full time year round usage.... Any advice?
I think we're homing in on 200 watts of solar, likely the renogy kit, and about 200ah of battery, likely an agm battery but nothing's purchased yet. From a cost standpoint still weighing going the 6v golf cart route.
I know 200 watts of solar won't cut it, hoping the alternator can pick up the slack during daily commuting, but still, I have concerns about the batteries draining down over time, especially in the winter as he's hanging out in the Northeast.
Fridge:
https://www.engelcoolers.com/mr040f-u1.html
Solar kit:
https://www.renogy.com/renogy-200-w...N0No1LyH6ZQLRfuFSDnY4mHZa8t2xzLRoCW80QAvD_BwE
Battery:
Open to suggestions...
So, he's lived for a year on not much, we're aiming to help improve the quality of life a bit but as you can imagine money is an issue. My main concern is that this system won't achieve what he needs, which is running a fridge, and will end up being money wasted.
So, are we close? How big do we need to go to run a fridge non stop?
Thanks all!