on 3/15/06 1:47 PM, Joy Hecht at jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU wrote:

> Why transfer your fridge from your starter battery to your auxiliary
> battery?  Then you have to worry about draining the aux. battery if you
> don't switch to propane when you stop.
>
> If you just leave it as they set it up, and run on 12 volt while driving,
> there's no risk of draining the battery when you park 'cause it won't stay
> on battery.

That's the way I have my westy set up.

Tom
>
> On many fridges the propane will blow out if you drive with the van on
> propane.  It doesn't do any harm - no leaking propane - but you could just
> drive with the fridge on 12 volt.
>