Will a fridge run off a 100 watt solar panel? 

Hey, Mark! I'm a great-grandmother in my late 70's. I still like to travel and camp. I sleep in my minivan. I watched probably hundreds of RU-vid videos and finally bought a fridge. Usually I camp with power, but sometimes I'm in a place with no shore power. So I bought a 100 watt solar panel. I also got several power stations. I tried charging the power stations with the solar panel and running the fridge. I was switching the power stations all day and ending up charging one in the house to power the fridge overnight. Then I found your video. Angels were singing! I had a deep cycle battery left over from my last camper that I had kept on a trickle charger, and an MPPT 30 amp charge controller. I also had a 12 volt outlet with ring terminals. I ordered the 10 gauge wire with the MC4 connectors on one end and bare wire on the other. Yesterday I hooked up my system just as you outlined, except that I used a separate battery. I wrapped the solar cords in pipe insulation because I just have them dropping into my van tailgate. This morning my fridge was at 38 degrees and the battery was showing 12.2 volts! I'm so happy! I can't carry my fridge so it stays in the van all the time. Today I shopped and put my meat in the fridge! Happy day! And now I know I can go anywhere and keep my food cold. Many, many thanks!

Straight forward, thx dude!

Thank you for the test!!!

Just put a 100W lensun panel on my hood, and its running an Engel 45L fridge at 4degc 24/7 365! I do drive my car daily for approx 25 min

Hey! Great video and love your channel. And I think it’s awesome you have the patience to answer so many peoples questions :) I was just curious - do you have to make sure the battery doesn’t “overcharge?” For some reason I thought you had to be careful with that, but maybe it was just AGM? I read your replies and you said you had a lead acid battery at first and then an AGM. I’ve been going back and forth about upgrading from lead acid to AGM but I really don’t want to have to worry about overcharging it with solar. Thoughts? 😊

Do you have a video on how you did the actual setup? I would like to run my fridge the same way but I’m not sure how you connected everything and with battery you used

Peaked my curiosity. Thanks for posting the links

New Subscriber needing some advice Please! I just ordered a Vevor 12V, 53qt dual zone car fridge and a Acopower 100W 12V monocrystalline solar panel that will installed on top of our Suburban. That’s all the room on top cause of the roof cargo boxes. Using Bluetti EB55. Will this be enough solar for it keep up running that fridge?(nothing else). Should I add a narrow flexible solar panel (say 50watt) on one my cargo boxes? Problem is I hear nothing but bad about those. Thank for any insight or ideas!

What amp hour battery do you have and is it lithium? Also, what’s the wattage on the fridge?

Would you by chance know what the rated power of your fridge was in watts?

That's neat that you can maintain it when you aren't opening it 6 times a day. Nice to have a cold drink if you been hiking or kayaking when you get back. Be interesting to see how many watts it would take to maintain the battery when you are opening it frequently. It won't run all the time even if you're opening it up. When it is running you still have a hundred Watt stop loss. 300 maybe?

What size inverter are you using

What type of fridge is this that you are testing?

Awesome video! So if I’m correct you just wired your solar panel straight to your charge controller and then from your charge controller straight to the regular car battery? And then from there had the fridge plugged into the cars 12v outlet and just ran it like that?

What battery do you have

What fridge?

Thank you! How many batteries and what kind?

You've really taken a turn for the worse.