No because when your vehicle is running your alternator is charging your vehicle battery. But, when your car is stopped there is a drain unless you have an isolator.
Carol
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Thank you! So if I travel with the fridge switched to "battery," it won't drain my car battery through the trickle-charge line?
--- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "bsuzanne69" <baldwin6601@...> wrote:
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> You are exactly right!
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> --- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, meskue@ wrote:
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> > Greetings! I have the Norcold 3-way fridge. The last time I used it, in Yosemite, I (stupidly) left the trailer plugged into my station wagon and both the trailer battery and my car battery died that night.
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> > I am leaving today for Big Sur and I ran my fridge all last night by plugging it in to my home outlet. Our camp site will not have electric hook-ups, and I'm afraid of draining my car battery again.
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> > What do I do while I'm driving? Put the fridge on the "battery" symbol? And then when I arrive at the camp site, do I unplug the trailer from my car and use the propane? I've never used the propane feature for my fridge -- I hope it's easy!
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> > Thank you for your assistance.
> >
> > Michele G. and her Creamsicle.
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