Hi
My marine refrigerator should be able to run on 110v and 12v.
It runs perfectly fine on shore power but doesn’t run on 12v. It could be a fault, or I guess that the previous owner could have disconnected the 12v supply to save on the amps.
I have a built in inverter connected to the house batteries and the refrigerator runs fine on that.
I’ll look into the problem but in the meantime are there any downsides of just running it through the inverter rather than it’s own 12v supply? I presume that the refrigerator has to convert the 12v itself anyway so there are inefficiencies either way?
The boat only gets used for short coastal trips and gets connected to the battery charger via shore power every night.
My marine refrigerator should be able to run on 110v and 12v.
It runs perfectly fine on shore power but doesn’t run on 12v. It could be a fault, or I guess that the previous owner could have disconnected the 12v supply to save on the amps.
I have a built in inverter connected to the house batteries and the refrigerator runs fine on that.
I’ll look into the problem but in the meantime are there any downsides of just running it through the inverter rather than it’s own 12v supply? I presume that the refrigerator has to convert the 12v itself anyway so there are inefficiencies either way?
The boat only gets used for short coastal trips and gets connected to the battery charger via shore power every night.