Mini Van Ideas

[Heidi Mull]

The fact that Heidi powered a fridge off of an alternator/solenoid setup suggests a fair amount of driving or idling needed daily.

I did tend to drive a fair bit daily, but I'd also have stretches where I wouldn't drive at all for several days. And I wouldn't dream of idling; I was barely affording gas as is! (More than once I went hungry in order to fill my gas tank, but I digress.)

To the best of my recollection, I could usually go approximately 36-48 hours before the fridge would shut off from battery being too low. Of course, it does take more than just one hour of driving to bring it back from that low a point, so it's not like I could do that all the time with little driving. It would depend too on how much I was using the rest of my electronics, e.g. 12V fan, both our laptops, both cell phones, a hotspot, and also how much the fridge had to run (time of year, how much we were opening it, etc).