Battery disconnect doesn't do fridge?

[supaphly42]

Just picked up our new 261BH. Love it so far! Took it camping straight from the dealership. That said, it's in the driveway now, and when parked I always leave my fridge/freezers open. It's not on shore power, and I flipped the battery disconnect, but I noticed the light in the fridge is still on. Is that normal? How do others keep the light off while venting the fridge? And why wouldn't the disconnect kill power to it?

[MickUpi]

Is anything else on? My guess is the switch is not in the right position.

[supaphly42]

I'll check other things tomorrow, but I flipped it to Off and pulled the red key out.

[sirtate]

The fridge is directly wired to the battery.
The disconnect doesn't disconnect it...

You have to turn the fridge off inside the fridge...

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[AZMike]

The fridge is directly wired to the battery.
The disconnect doesn't disconnect it...

You have to turn the fridge off inside the fridge...

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Unfortunately, there will still be a parasitic drain with the fridge "turned off".

[sirtate]

Unfortunately, there will still be a parasitic drain with the fridge "turned off".

True...

But the solar panel provides over 12amps of charging in hard sunshine, and over 5 under clouds...

I've left my fridge ON and have run my furnace over a few nights when it's been cold out and the panel has kept up over the last 6 weeks...

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[powerscol]

True...

But the solar panel provides over 12amps of charging in hard sunshine, and over 5 under clouds...

I've left my fridge ON and have run my furnace over a few nights when it's been cold out and the panel has kept up over the last 6 weeks...

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Unless you get snow covering them and learned the hard way the disconnect does not disconnect everything.

[sirtate]

Unless you get snow covering them and learned the hard way the disconnect does not disconnect everything.

It snowed a couple of the cold nights when I had the furnace running...

The snow (about 1-2 inches) dropped charging amperage down to 3 or 4... But it was still positive... The panel/charger brought the SOC back to full in a couple of days after the snow melted...

We weren't opening and closing the slide every 20mins not were we running the water pump...
But fridge was ON, and the furnace was at 55 on those cold nights...
I was worried, honestly, after hearing stories about people draining their batts using the furnace overnight... I would check in the trailer at 9pm and again at 7am or so.

If the fridge is turned off, I don't see any reason why 165w of solar (heck, even 80w at half sun) can't stay ahead of parasitic loads over the course of a few days. Mine has done so admirably since Apr 5 with actual loads...



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[supaphly42]

The fridge is directly wired to the battery.
The disconnect doesn't disconnect it...

You have to turn the fridge off inside the fridge...

Gotcha, thanks. And I turned the dial all the way down to the off position, but that doesn't do anything for the light.

[Johnww]

I installed a second battery disconnect switch just above the batteries. When it's in the off position nothing is connected.