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Subject:Re: Calling all solar gurus
From:David Beierl
Date:Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:01:42 -0400

At 01:30 PM 6/28/2009, Ellen Oregon wrote:
>So what do you solar gurus think of this?  Is this sufficient
>wattage to run my fridge?  I don't plan on hooking anything else into it.

[Not a solar guru]
If you're talking about the Dometic fridge, IIRC it's rated at 7.5
A/85 watts (which implies it's rated at a realistic 11.3 volts
input).  Unless you've modified it, it runs continuously on DC, so
there's no way that a panel with 60 watt max output (4 amps at 15
volts) would keep up with it even if it were noon 24 hours a day.

If it's a different fridge, you'll need to know the specs for it.

Incidentally, on the web page it states in one place that it's using
amorphous cells, in another place crystalline.

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