This is a great fridge for a solar power system. Solar The DIY solar system I built to solar power the BougeRV fridge In fact, I did just that while staying a couple days with friends. It’s good if you’re staying at a house or somewhere with an outlet for a few days and want to bring the fridge inside. The wall charger accepts 110-240V AC, so it should work in nearly every country. The BougeRV fridge also runs off a standard wall outlet. If the 12V plug doesn’t work with your car, you could try out a replacement 12V fridge power cord. That meant converting DC (from the car battery) to AC (inverter) and then back to DC (fridge). To power the fridge from my car, I ended up having to plug a 150W inverter into my car socket, then plug the fridge’s AC power cord into the inverter’s AC outlet. Maybe newer car models wouldn’t have this problem? Regardless, I think it’s a mistake on BougeRV’s part. My car is a 2003 model and my parents’ is a 2004. Compare how much they stick out to those of the other 12V plug (left).įor whatever reason, the plug was too long for our car sockets, and its negative terminals didn’t make proper contact with the sides of the socket. Its metal fins didn’t go in far enough to make proper contact. The fridge’s 12V plug (right) was too long to fit into the 12V socket on my or my parents’ cars. However, for whatever reason, the plug didn’t work with my or my parents’ cars. The included 12/24V DC power cord has a plug that’s meant to fit into a 12V car socket. It lasted 3 days of continuous use before the battery needed recharging (when set to the high voltage cut-off setting).įor more of an idea of how long a 100Ah LiFePO4 battery will run a 12V fridge, check out this video I made: Running the fridge off my battery worked perfectly. The fridge’s included 12/24V DC power cord fits right into the NOCO GC018 12V socket.

To run it off my battery, I just connected the NOCO GC018 12V socket to the battery terminals and plugged the included 12/24V DC power cord into the socket. When at camp, I’d connect the BougeRV fridge to a 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 battery using the NOCO GC018 12V socket. I brought along a 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 battery to power the fridge at camp each night. Pretty much the only way you can’t power it is with propane. You can power this fridge in a handful of ways, and I tried out most of them over the course of my testing. For comparison, it’s a tad smaller than medium-sized coolers, which tend to be in the 30-35 liter range. The 30 quart (28 liter) capacity felt a little on the smaller end, but enough for a couple people. The fridge seemed well-made and easy to use.

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