Hi All,
So in the process of planning my first camper conversion (in the UK) and I've been researching fridges...
So i'm gonna be running everything off of a leisure battery with a mains hook up option as well when available.
When looking at fridges to buy (bearing in mind i don't need anything massive, just enough to hold a few beers, milk, bacon etc) even the very small ones sold from camper van stores seem ridiculously expensive (anything from £200-£1000+!!). I see i can buy a normal (mains powered) mini fridge from amazon for about £60-80...
Can anybody see a reason why i couldn't just buy the fridge from amazon along with an inverter, then plug the fridge into the inverter and wire the inverter to my leisure battery? To me this seems like a logical and much cheaper way of getting my fridge, but am i overlooking anything glaringly obvious? or are there specific reasons why it would make sense to save a bit longer and buy one of the more expensive purpose built fridges?
Any advice or tips are greatly appreciated!
Cheers all,
Al
So in the process of planning my first camper conversion (in the UK) and I've been researching fridges...
So i'm gonna be running everything off of a leisure battery with a mains hook up option as well when available.
When looking at fridges to buy (bearing in mind i don't need anything massive, just enough to hold a few beers, milk, bacon etc) even the very small ones sold from camper van stores seem ridiculously expensive (anything from £200-£1000+!!). I see i can buy a normal (mains powered) mini fridge from amazon for about £60-80...
Can anybody see a reason why i couldn't just buy the fridge from amazon along with an inverter, then plug the fridge into the inverter and wire the inverter to my leisure battery? To me this seems like a logical and much cheaper way of getting my fridge, but am i overlooking anything glaringly obvious? or are there specific reasons why it would make sense to save a bit longer and buy one of the more expensive purpose built fridges?
Any advice or tips are greatly appreciated!
Cheers all,
Al