Would you choose to have a 3 way at home?
No.
If you want a fridge that works all of the time, reliably, in any weather, get a compressor fridge.
Cheers,
Peter
Some time ago I posted here https://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t71302014/domestic-fridge-fitted-to-caravan/. Basically fitted a domestic fridge after my 3 year old 12V compressor fridge was driving us crazy. Been running it for a while now and find the power consumption to be less than or equal to depending on the weather. It keeps up in 40 degree plus days and freezes well. We have 240 AH of lithium and 340w of solar and it does us nicely. It all cost about $160 for the inverter and the fridge was $370 from JB HIFI. I put a fan behind the inverter and the internal fans have never come on as they are noisy if they do. I would do it all again. The Hisense is 205l.
-- Edited by Ketto on Tuesday 29th of July 2025 07:37:12 PM
Some time ago I posted here https://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t71302014/domestic-fridge-fitted-to-caravan/. Basically fitted a domestic fridge after my 3 year old 12V compressor fridge was driving us crazy. Been running it for a while now and find the power consumption to be less than or equal to depending on the weather. It keeps up in 40 degree plus days and freezes well. We have 240 AH of lithium and 340w of solar and it does us nicely. It all cost about $160 for the inverter and the fridge was $370 from JB HIFI. I put a fan behind the inverter and the internal fans have never come on as they are noisy if they do. I would do it all again. The Hisense is 205l.
-- Edited by Ketto on Tuesday 29th of July 2025 07:37:12 PM
That's the way to go.. I got a Samsung 320 Litre that use nearly the same power as the old Dometic RPD 218 and best of all, frost free...
Any chance for you to upload another close up picture of the locking mechanism that you used in your fridge? It does look good...
Hi all; Gas is good, to a point !!! But a compressor fridge 12/240 volt or even just a 240 volt one with a small inverter to provide the 240 volts. You don't need a big and power hungry inverter just to run your fridge.
Having said that your are going to need a couple of lithium batteries ( forget agm's ). A solar controller, and a lot of solar on your roof. The more the merry with solar, and with lithium batteries a smart current shunt is a good investment as well. Just to keep a eye on what state your batteries are in.
If you want to run other mains powered or 12 volt ( lighting or phone charging, television etc. ) Then you would at the least upgrade the capacity of your lithium batteries. I have one 300 Ah 12 volt lithium battery in my caravan and have more power than in really need. As our caravan is all mainly 12 volts anyway ( bar the hot water heater ( we use gas ) the air con and microwave oven.
all of the management system in my caravan is blue toothed to my phone and makes it easy to see what my set up is doing and how the battery is performing.
I use and have Engel fridge or / freezer. I freeze coke bottles and food and put coke bottles in evakool esky which keeps them for 6 days or so. I usually swap one bottle every day.
Best of both worlds.
Hardly any draw on battery. And if all goes kaput you have cold stuff for a week.
