BOONDOCKING WITH A 12 VOLT FRIDGE | LITHIUM BATTERY TEST WITH 12 VOLT FRIDGE | ROCKWOOD 2109s

all right everybody welcome to another episode of unique Adventures on this episode we are out here in our brand new well not brand new but fairly brand new uh Rockwood mini lights are 2020 to 2109s and in this video we're going to be going over how this uh 12 volt refrigerator does dry camping on a weekend on lithium so stay tuned all right everybody we are out here our first dry camping weekend uh we are out here in Manchester state park outside of Port Orchard here in Washington we are out dry camping completely this weekend on our 200 amp hours of lithium and we are flexing its muscles we are gonna see if it can keep up with our dry camping needs out here especially with that 12 volt fridge and if you've seen you know some of these reports on these 12 volt fridges they do suck a bunch of power or have the capability we have not done a test yet we're bringing it out here we're running it and we're just gonna see what happens we do have um some power reserves in case we need it we do have the generator and typically we would have solar on the roof but in this video in case you haven't seen around us here we're in really heavy tree cover we are not going to have any solar that's going to be anything legitimate for the weekend so we're pretty much solely running on batteries this weekend so we're going to track and we're going to bring you along with us over the next couple of days here and see if this thing can actually keep up but let's show you currently what our batteries are doing in the travel time here and in uh and in a setting up now mind you we have this thing pre-cooled we've got our all of our food in it we we got everything down to temperature last night we opened it up to put food in the 12 volt fridge and it's already starting to suck power I think the last time I checked we're going to check here in a second it was drawn about six amps so that won't last the weekend if it continues to do that I'm hoping it's just trying to cycle back down just because of us being in and out of it and loading every everything in so let's go ahead and check the current status of our of our batteries so right now we are currently at 98 percent we are drawing 6.8 amps and so far we have consumed 4.6 amp hours if we go on the current track we're on right now we are going to last just a shade over 24 hours so 27 hours now I'm not sure right now Kim does have a couple of the lights on we are trying to conserve some power as best we can so we've only got a couple of the lights on inside when the lights do turn on we won't have all the lights turned on now the other thing you got to think about when we set up we had to use our power Power Jack okay we also have power stabilizers and we're also looking this weekend at these snap pads that we just picked up this is our first weekend with those so we'll be able to let you guys know a little bit about that so that's pretty much the batteries right now it's about seven o'clock at night so we're going to try to get through the night here and then we'll get back with you guys first thing in the morning and show you what these batteries are doing are and just to make sure everybody knows we are running 200 amp hours of sok lithium and so we're running it we'll catch up with you guys in the morning and check those numbers again all right everybody it's the next morning uh we're giving you that update on the 12 volt uh fridge and our battery system remember we got that 200 amp hours so far we checked it this morning a little bit after about 12 hours of use and we have used about 50 amp hours of battery already when the 12 volt fridge is engaged it is pulling anywhere between five and seven amps uh at a time and I was thinking it might have been a little bit worse this morning waking up but I think it finally settled down and we've adjusted the temperature a little bit this morning to kind of get it right in the range there about 34 to 38 degrees or so um but let's show you guys currently what we're running it's about 10 o'clock in the morning we just got done having breakfast a little bit ago and uh we're gonna go check the smart shot one more time and kind of see out what that looks like if we have to run the generator pretty much five o'clock is kind of my deadline time to see whether or not we're going to make it through the night if we need to we'll fire it up at that time for about three hours or so and I'm pretty sure if we had to that'll get us through but let's check uh let's check that it's probably about 14 15 hours after being disconnected and getting here so let's check that reading oh we're over here by our smart shunt which is on the back side of uh this pass through here so right now we're at 70 percent we're running a little bit over 13 volts right now the fridge is engaged it is running at about 5.2 amps and on this current Pace we will have about one day and one hour left so we will check this again probably around five o'clock this afternoon remember it's about 10 30 in the morning we'll check it this afternoon and see if we're going to actually have to run that generator or not hopefully we won't um so I mean everything's been working okay it's just that fridge is definitely taking a lot of power so we'll check back in with you guys right around five o'clock are we gonna make it we don't know stay tuned to find out all right we are now back it is after five o'clock so we've been here right around 24 hours now in that ballpark 22 24 hours the fridge uh has been running off and on all day long I have seen it uh kick on and cycle usually kicks up to about six amps or so when it is running it's actually running right now so we're gonna take you inside here real quick and just show you kind of what that uh what that sounds like all right I don't know if you can hear it but it is definitely running all right so we're gonna check those amp hours it is it was at 53 amp hours used this morning uh so let's go ahead and bring up the phone here let's kick up the smart shot and see kind of what we're looking like all right so we're currently at 62 percent we have now used almost 79 amp hours in 20 24 hours so 79 amp hours used uh we do have a little bit of an asterisk by that I did mention that we weren't going to be able to have solar this weekend just because of the tree cover that's around here but we did get a little bit of time for maybe about a hour to an hour and a half right around noon or so where if you look if you look up here we got part of the sky here that actually opened up and it was sunny for probably about an hour or two and we were kicking up solar up to 16 17 amps coming in so we were definitely backfilling the batteries a little bit anywhere between 15 amp hours ish or so at least that's what my GoPro go power at least that's what the GoPro controller system says about 15 20 amp hours so that 79 is more like 99 amp hours in this first 24 hours now are we just running the fridge no what have we been running the water pump as we need it to do dishes wash our hands use the toilet we've turned lights on we've done the things that we would normally do while we're out camping and it hasn't been that big of a deal we haven't used the inverter at all so we're not powering that we're powering the radio a little bit to listen to some football um but yeah it's about 100 amp hours for roughly give or take for the day um we're gonna run this for the rest of the tonight I'm gonna let it ride and see if we can go all night long um on the rest of the batteries we should be fine um I noticed during the night we only used about 20 or 30 amp hours once the temperature cooled down so we're gonna check back in with you in the morning hopefully we still got some battery left on this guy we're not bringing out the generator tonight we're going to let it ride we'll see in the morning and see exactly what this ended up looking like all right everybody it is now Sunday morning uh we're gonna pull up those numbers we have been out here camping now for about 41 hours or so so just a little bit shy of of two days uh we have been you know trying to you know camp like we would normally camp in here um I will say that the 12 volt fridge uh it does take its power um it uh you can Boondock with it if you have the right the right setup the right power setup so let's take a look at what our numbers actually are and so I'm just going to show you currently right now you can see there's about 10 30 11 o'clock we're at 35 percent about 135 amp hours on that but uh you also got to add the 20 hours that we replenished so 155 amp hours total is pretty much what we used here in in two days that's a lot of amp hours and with our old setup when we didn't have the 12 volt fridge and we were still kind of doing just you know normal basic things like on a weekend we'd use probably about 50 amp hours or so so that's like three times the amount of power and most of all that has contributed to the 12 volt fridge so could we have made it uh two days on that without the solar yeah we could have but the minimum is going to be 200 amp hours depending on your setup uh I am thinking we either need to get uh if we're going forward here we probably need to get a ground deployed solar unit to be able to chase some of the Sun or we are going to be adding another 100 amp hours most likely one of those two to kind of combat some of this just to make sure that if we want to use that extra power we don't have to worry about it like I said we didn't use the T TV we didn't use the inverter we used our lights sparingly um you know and we turned the water pump on when we needed to we didn't take showers so that would have required a lot more power so I hope you got something out of this make sure you hit that like button make sure you're subscribed let us know what uh how you feel about the 12 volt uh um refrigerator systems what are your opinions what are um what uh what have been your experiences so far with the 12 volt fridge it's got its pros and cons but the big con is definitely it's it's power usage so if you're on like a stock battery setup like a two 12 volt setup that these come from at least ours came from from the factory you're maybe gonna get an overnight and that's probably about it without destroying your batteries so I think that they put the solar on the roof the the standard solar on the roof of these things just to get you by as you're going down the road but not necessarily for a boondocking setup if you're trying to dry camp with a 12 volt fridge you need to probably have I'm gonna come out and say you need to have lithium on board you need to have at least 200 amp hours to combat this and we hope to do a video down the road where we can really utilize the solar and see can 400 watts of solar which is what we've got on the roof the 100 the double hundred nineties from the factory one came from the factory and then we optioned the other one from the factory so we've got 380 Watts on the roof can that keep up with this monster I think it might be able to um depending on if the conditions are right um I am completely validating the point of adding that extra panel um from the factory uh it's worth it at least for us um so hopefully you got something out of this I don't want to keep dragging this on too long uh make sure to hit that thumbs up make sure you're subscribed so we do more tests like this and run you through our experiences on our different setups in this uh 2109s you won't miss it but until then we'll see you guys in the next adventure

Channel: Unique Adventurez

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Length: 14min 37sec (877 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023