Discovered another fan in the Elkmont while dry camping for a couple of days this week. The frig has an additional Norcold fan kit installed that only comes on when it gets pretty hot outside. It has a thermostat attached to the cooling coils visible through the upper side vent.
Unfortunately, I didn't measure its load but it could be as much as one amp if similar to the range hood and bathroom fans.
An easy way to reduce this load is to temporarily remove that upper side vent. Just twist the two twist-lock screws, push up and pull out. That really opens up the ventilation area, and the fan never came on after I did that.
The longest we've dry camped so far has been 2.5 days, and the most electricity we've used has been about 5% of battery capacity (the two golf carts at 232Ah). But that's being pretty obsessive about electricity usage.
Maybe we can forget about solar panels? We'll see. After all, many of the places we've been camping at are pretty shady, typical of the eastern forests.
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