American Eagle, American Dream
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Gary RV_Wizard
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The American Coach brand is a luxury class coach, with the Dream a bit lower on the price scale than the Eagle. Both are lovely and well-equipped coaches. My American Tradition was a 2004 model, so I don't think my experience can reasonably be applied to a 2017.
Assuming the batteries are in decent condition the fridge should run 15-20 hours off the batteries. The big variable is how often the door is opened - the fridge has to recover the cold air loss each time.
Assuming the batteries are in decent condition the fridge should run 15-20 hours off the batteries. The big variable is how often the door is opened - the fridge has to recover the cold air loss each time.
SeilerBird
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Both the Dream and the Eagle are fabulous RVs.
Utclmjmpr
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Another shout out for the Tradition.>>>Dan
Kevin Means
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We've got a 22cf residential fridge, and we like to boondock. To keep our batteries fully charged, we used to have to run our generator about four hours a day. We ended up installing solar and increasing the size of our battery bank. Now, we rarely ever need our generator.
A typical OEM battery bank will usually get you through one night if you've got a res fridge, but if you're going to be boondocking for several days, people with res fridges either have to get used to listening to their generator droning away for hours on end, or invest in solar and more usable battery capacity.
Kev
A typical OEM battery bank will usually get you through one night if you've got a res fridge, but if you're going to be boondocking for several days, people with res fridges either have to get used to listening to their generator droning away for hours on end, or invest in solar and more usable battery capacity.
Kev
zmotorsports
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The American line of coaches are very nice rigs. Most of the later model ones will be on the Spartan chassis and the amenities are luxurious for the most part.
As for the residential refrigerator, I installed a 19 cubic foot Samsung in our 2003 Dynasty several years ago and I agree with Kevin above as the few times a year we boondock a couple of hours of generator run time in the morning and a couple in the evening while fixing dinner or watching some television is all that is needed to keep the batteries charged enough to get us through the night. IF we were to do more boondocking a good case could be made for additional solar but I can't justify it based on our limited boondocking annually.
Mike
As for the residential refrigerator, I installed a 19 cubic foot Samsung in our 2003 Dynasty several years ago and I agree with Kevin above as the few times a year we boondock a couple of hours of generator run time in the morning and a couple in the evening while fixing dinner or watching some television is all that is needed to keep the batteries charged enough to get us through the night. IF we were to do more boondocking a good case could be made for additional solar but I can't justify it based on our limited boondocking annually.
Mike
I love our '07 American Tradition, but as Gary said a new one is different than my model year. We did however replace the original absorption refrig with a residential and are very happy we did. We boondock on occasion and have found that with night time temps below 60 I can turn off the refrig at bedtime and by morning the refrig has gained maybe 2-3 deg. So typically I will do that and run the generator an hour or so in the morning and 2 hours in the evening. I monitor the battery voltage and don't let voltage get below 12.1 volts.
