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Old 10-23-2022, 05:55 PM   #15
tjblocker
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Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Box Elder
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Todd & Mary
You have quite the setup. My Montana is less than 6 months old so it is still a work in progress. We spend winters boondocking outside Quartzsite every winter. In past years solar made all of my power while here, and that is my goal for the Montana. But it uses over 300 ah per day.

On an aside, I think my fridge draws about 11 amps. Freezer is almost always -2 to 4 degrees and fridge hoovers around 34. This is far better than what my fridge did with an absorption cooling unit, with was crap. I do not recommend the Norcold 2118. It's a huge beautiful fridge that doesn't really work very well. It struggles to keep fridge at 45 and the freezer was almost never below 10-15 degrees. On another aside, if I had to do it again I would choose the Amish 120 volt compressor cooling unit.

I think very highly of Victron hardware. I have 400 watts factory solar and it's controlled using a Victron MPPT controller. I will install Victron for the new solar I install.

And good luck to you. I wish for you fun and safe travels.

Cheers
Tom
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