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I recently bought a 2020 Jeep Gladiator and I bought an ARB 101 quart fridge. I took it to a Jeep shop and they said I would be fine to hook it up to my Jeep battery, which they did with a 50amp line. This fridge has 3 settings to control when it shuts off based on remaining juice in the battery - hi, med, low - indicating that as an example, when set to low, it will shut off when the Jeep battery is very low. I've found that when I leave it set to low, it drains the battery to ~11volts, and I need to jump the Jeep to start it when the fridge is left on overnight. When set to med, the fridge shuts off in the middle of the night and warms up both containers to about 45 degrees (at least that is what they were when I checked) displaying an error code that the Jeep battery is too low.
My question is how should I properly be powering this fridge and other accessories. I purchased a genesis dual battery kit off Amazon and figured I would get a second battery, but the Jeep shop that connected my fridge in the first place said that they thought it would be the same result, I'd just have two batteries - but the fridge would still be draining the same amount of juice, just in this case from the secondary battery. That's how it's supposed to work right? I watched an install video that mentioned getting a 25 group deep cycle battery for the accessories, because this handles being drained low like this, whereas a typical ignition supporting battery is not designed to be drained in that way. Any feedback would be appreciated.
My question is how should I properly be powering this fridge and other accessories. I purchased a genesis dual battery kit off Amazon and figured I would get a second battery, but the Jeep shop that connected my fridge in the first place said that they thought it would be the same result, I'd just have two batteries - but the fridge would still be draining the same amount of juice, just in this case from the secondary battery. That's how it's supposed to work right? I watched an install video that mentioned getting a 25 group deep cycle battery for the accessories, because this handles being drained low like this, whereas a typical ignition supporting battery is not designed to be drained in that way. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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