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Originally Posted by cochise
We received a red binder with most user manuals in it, including the TM Owners manual. But on when I got to page 23 under "refrigerator" I sat up. They state that it is a 3-way design, so I went on to page 24. Halfway down under "Start Up: DC operation it states that the refrigerator is made to operate on 12 VDC while the vehicle is in transit. That is only true in as far as 12 VDC is used for the controls and is used when the refrigerator in using the LP gas mode, but ALSO when it runs in 120 VAC mode. This was verified by NORCOLD. They say it would take too much current to run something that big on 12 VDC. Which makes sense. So it seem TM is a bit over optimistic or have no clue what they are really dealing with.
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I don't know who or why someone at Norcold would make a comment like that but that person is sorely mistaken. Our TM fridge works quite well off of 12V. I have seen huge 12V fridges on boats. The TM fridge is dinky @ 2 cu ft. I had an 11cu ft fridge on my sailboat and it was 12V. It was also very efficient.
Having said that, it does draw a lot of current on 12V and it's not something that you would want to do while dry camping. Most people here tow with there fridge on 12V.