12 v fridge/ appliances

Go with the inverter right out of the gate 110 appliances are so much cheaper.

 

This is not microwave oven.

 

Agreed. Its not worth it.

We used a standard fridge on 12 or 120 volt. It will cool to 40 below cab interior temp. Some days it's a freezer sorta.

We used a pair of dutch ovens that went into the front cig lighters. Takes 400 miles to cook a meal in them. But what meals.

We used a inverter, a big one installed by freightliner dealer on our own dime for safety after FFE gave permission. (That took a month. Something like 7 departments had to sign off..) Once we had inverter in feeding decent house power then anything was possible. But nothing too outrageous.

 

Safe your self the money and hassle and just go with an inverter from the start. Anything you plug into a 12v plug be it a cooler, microwave, fridge, etc isn't going to last long. You're either gonna burn through the cables or it's going to stop working or not work as it's suppose to.

So many have been there and done that, trust our experiences.

 

12 volt fridges are really high. have you checked prices

 

We had a 20 dollar coffee pot, one of those 110 volt Mr Coffees. I cannot understand exactly how much our savings against truckstop coffee costs were. But we estimated only about 18 cents a cup. The water for the pot was the most cost part of it as it needed to be good clean water.

We did go by certain rules when running Mr Coffee back there in the cabinet. Interstate has to be nice and smooth and the voltmeter anywhere between 15.3 to 14.6 We usually had a one hell of a huge alternator under the hood that was able to keep up with us. But for wahtever reason after the inverter was installed we routinely burned up alternators I think we went through 4 that first year. Fortunately it's only like a 45 minute job to drop a new one in.

 

For sure buying your own Appliances save money over time and your not always gonna get parking at a truckstop or somewhere you can get a coffee or hot food