Dometic or ARB fridge?

[Singlecab]

So in my Brute I run an ARB 63 qt. With an ARB slide, their wiring and plug.

Run it off a single red top Optima. Not a great choice in a battery to run down often, but have the ARB cutoff set at 11.2 volts. This keeps ample power to start the truck.

Dimensions: it’s big

19 1/2” tall at its highest while mounted on the slide. That puts the lid when fully opened at 49” high off the truck bed.

Weighs at just over 100lbs empty. Both fridge and slide. The slide has infinite adjustability in the bearing wheels so it doesn’t rattle when off-road. I really couldn’t hear it anyway over all the other noise, it’s a TJ of course!

I purchased the slide only so I could slide it out from under the tent rack to fully open the lid to load and unload. The slide has a stop at fully closed and fully deployed. It deflects (droops) about a 1/16” fully loaded and deployed. Nice.

When not wheeling, it has a 115 plug built in that I plug into the wall of the garage, it transfer power automatically.

Mind you that is a 5’10” bed, 17 “ high.

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[smlobx]

So in my Brute I run an ARB 63 qt. With an ARB slide, their wiring and plug.

Run it off a single red top Optima. Not a great choice in a battery to run down often, but have the ARB cutoff set at 11.2 volts. This keeps ample power to start the truck.

Dimensions: it’s big

19 1/2” tall at its highest while mounted on the slide. That puts the lid when fully opened at 49” high off the truck bed.

Weighs at just over 100lbs empty. Both fridge and slide. The slide has infinite adjustability in the bearing wheels so it doesn’t rattle when off-road. I really couldn’t hear it anyway over all the other noise, it’s a TJ of course!

I purchased the slide only so I could slide it out from under the tent rack to fully open the lid to load and unload. The slide has a stop at fully closed and fully deployed. It deflects (droops) about a 1/16” fully loaded and deployed. Nice.

When not wheeling, it has a 115 plug built in that I plug into the wall of the garage, it transfer power automatically.

Mind you that is a 5’10” bed, 17 “ high.

‘Forget the fridge.

Tell me about your rear bumper/tire carrier!

 

[Singlecab]

Not to derail the thread, but like many of you looking for bumper mounted spares, right now your choices are limited.

Well mine were obsolete. Nobody makes anything for these trucks from the front doors to the back.

So I made my own. Hanson bumper. Modified with Synergy spindle. Cut a 1” hole in the bumper, slid in the spindle and started welding. Lots of other little mods as well to get it to fit.

Just took my ideas from bumpers I saw on other wranglers. Simple design.

I’ll do a DIY on some of the items a had to build or modify to fit the truck outside of this thread.

 

[TennesseePA]

are they charging the starter battery or something else?

can you elaborate more on this?

I have a MinnKota portable trolling motor battery box with a 100Ah lead acid battery in it. When I ran the generator during the day the generator would power both the cooler and charge the deep cycle battery. It didn’t even have to go to fast idle to make enough power.

 

[TennesseePA]

https://www.westmarine.com/buy/minn-kota--trolling-motor-battery-box--14536064

This is the battery box. It has a 12V plug on each end. I have a NOCO smart charger that I use with it. It will charge the battery with the cooler plugged in. I plan to eventually replace the 40 ton lead acid battery with a BattleBorn or something similar. My Champion generator only weighs 38 pounds so it really isn’t a big deal to tote it around too.

 

[steffen707]

https://www.westmarine.com/buy/minn-kota--trolling-motor-battery-box--14536064

This is the battery box. It has a 12V plug on each end. I have a NOCO smart charger that I use with it. It will charge the battery with the cooler plugged in. I plan to eventually replace the 40 ton lead acid battery with a BattleBorn or something similar. My Champion generator only weighs 38 pounds so it really isn’t a big deal to tote it around too.

oh thanks, i went back and re-read the last page or so. I like that redarc charger you shared. I have dilusions that i'll do a whole lithium battery setup and then i'm like.....I'm not going to use this except a few times a year. I could buy a new deep cycle battery once a year for how much i'll use it....

 

[steffen707]

https://www.westmarine.com/buy/minn-kota--trolling-motor-battery-box--14536064

This is the battery box. It has a 12V plug on each end. I have a NOCO smart charger that I use with it. It will charge the battery with the cooler plugged in. I plan to eventually replace the 40 ton lead acid battery with a BattleBorn or something similar. My Champion generator only weighs 38 pounds so it really isn’t a big deal to tote it around too.

so you plug the cooler into the battery box with the 12 volt cig. lighter connection? Meanwhile the NOCO smart charger is charging the battery as the battery is feeding the cooler?

Do you have a link to the NOCO charger?

 

[TennesseePA]

https://no.co/genius10

I have done both, plug the cooler and the charger into the AC outlets on the generator and plug the 12V into the battery. The cooler will choose AC while the generator is on and automatically switch to 12V when it loses AC. Or just plug into 12V and let the charger handle everything. That is probably how I’ll run it if I use the bed plug since it only has one AC plug.

 

[steffen707]

Both the Champion and Generac can run almost 24 hours at slow idle powering the cooler and charging the battery. I would estimate that 1 gallon of gas would get me a week or more of time if I use the battery until it needs charged and then charge the battery and start over. The generators will charge the batter at least 2 or 3 times.

Is the generac really quiet at slow idle speed?

 

[TennesseePA]

They are both very quiet but the Generac is the most quiet. Either one you can stand right beside it and talk on the phone. If I went inside the house I couldn’t hear either one of them at all.

 

[steffen707]

hey, the Champion you bought, is it propane AND gas like the one below? when its on propane, is it quieter by chance?

I like the looks of this one too. Imagine how nice it would be to power your cooler and the AC in the tent. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...rtable-inverter-generator-with-electric-start

 

[TennesseePA]

No I didn’t get the dual fuel Champion. I just have two of the 2000 watt inverter generators.

 

[steffen707]

No I didn’t get the dual fuel Champion. I just have two of the 2000 watt inverter generators.

did you get that Baja 900watt ryobi clone too?

what do you think of it?


FYI, i went back and read that last 2 pages, post for post, lol. Now i think i might be up to speed on your endeavors.

 

[TennesseePA]

The Baja was worthless. I pulled on that stupid thing for an hour and it wouldn’t run. That being said the Ebay seller I got it from was beyond awesome. Very easy to process the return.

 

[steffen707]

The Baja was worthless. I pulled on that stupid thing for an hour and it wouldn’t run. That being said the Ebay seller I got it from was beyond awesome. Very easy to process the return.

Damn! Well good to know I should keep my money.

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