Residential Fridge power

[Tf78933]

I recently purchased a 2016 Sightseer 36Z. It has a residential fridge. My understanding of how it works is, with shore power, turn on the fridge. With generator power, again just turn on the fridge. Rolling down the road, if I want my fridge running, and I don’t use the generator, turning on the fridge automatically will tap into the coach batteries via the inverter. Do I need to turn on the inverter first?

Is this an accurate picture? Anything else I need to be aware of? I’d check it myself but the coach is in storage at the moment.

Than you for your help.

[creativepart]

Yes, generally you need to turn on the inverter first. The inverter almost never... well really never, turns itself on. You can make the generator start up on power demand depending on your genset and it's control panel.

So, when driving with a residential fridge, turn on the [EDIT:] inverter to power the fridge. Your alternator will charge your batteries as you drive.

[DavidM]

I think Creativepart misspoke in his statement below. See the correction in bold.

David

Originally Posted by creativepart

So, when driving with a residential fridge, turn on the generator inverter to power the fridge. Your alternator will charge your batteries as you drive.

[Tf78933]

Thank you for the clarification. That’s kind of what I thought.