sprinterdiscovery
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We've run an inexpensive $60, 120v dorm fridge from Home Depot in our Sprinter van for the past 3 years, and on a full time roadtrip since July 12 2021 traveling across Canada from West to east and back.
The fridge is connected to our Goal Zero Yeti 1000 battery pack, running 24 hours per day. We don't have solar, just a Victron DC charger that keeps our Yeti fully charged up as we drive.
It's small enough for two people, stocking beer, eggs, coleslaw, cheese, milk, butter etc. We drive every day, and we've never run out of battery though sometimes close but then we drive for a bit to charge it up a while.
If we are on a steep incline, the fridge will not cool, but that's rarely the case. In the heat it uses more battery, in cooler temperatures less so.
We bolted it to the floor and have been on some extremely rough gravel roads, traveling over 160,000km so far with it and zero issues.
Very glad we didn't spend any more money on it. If and when it breaks we'll throw it out and buy a new one again for under $100.
Simple. Cheap. It works .
The fridge is connected to our Goal Zero Yeti 1000 battery pack, running 24 hours per day. We don't have solar, just a Victron DC charger that keeps our Yeti fully charged up as we drive.
It's small enough for two people, stocking beer, eggs, coleslaw, cheese, milk, butter etc. We drive every day, and we've never run out of battery though sometimes close but then we drive for a bit to charge it up a while.
If we are on a steep incline, the fridge will not cool, but that's rarely the case. In the heat it uses more battery, in cooler temperatures less so.
We bolted it to the floor and have been on some extremely rough gravel roads, traveling over 160,000km so far with it and zero issues.
Very glad we didn't spend any more money on it. If and when it breaks we'll throw it out and buy a new one again for under $100.
Simple. Cheap. It works .
