The refrigerator in my motorhome is 700 watts. Electricity here on Long Island approaches $.18/kwh. There is no 12 volt element as a 70 amp load is not practical. As for $5-10 night for electric, in the vanagon that would be crazy. If I was to run the 2 air conditioners full time and use electric for the hot water and refrigerator, and use the electric oven regularly in the motor home, I could see a $200 month electric bill at our rates easily. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Alofs <lalofs@RCN.COM> Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:20 am Subject: Re: Was 12V fridge necessary? now rant (LVC) > Dennis Haynes wrote: > > >You are absolutely right. The cost is difficult to measure but it is > >there. Especially when you consider the engine is only ~22% efficient > >and then the alternator can be down to almost 50%. Unless you are > in an > >area that has cheap electricity, it is probably also cheaper to > run the > >fridge on propane then electric power. I get a kick out of the larger > >RVs that have in addition to a furnace or two, electric heat, heat > >pumps, or worse, the electric element in the propane water > heater. No > >wonder campground owners have to charge so much. A lot of > electricity to > >save a little propane. > > > >Dennis > > > > > > > I donno Dennis. It seems to me that campgrounds that charge $5 or $10 > per nite for electricity are out of line. I know they have to pay off > the costs of installing the outlets, etc., but 100W for 10 hours > is 1 > kwh which costs about 10 cents in most markets. Scale this up as you > like, but it's hard to justify the typical charge. > > Larry A. > |
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