I suspect there may be too many variable in my query for anyone to be able to offer any advice but ------
We have a 9 month old 430GT and used it last weekend on a pitch without electrical hook-up. It is the first time we have used gas to run the fridge (Domestic RM5330) and hot water boiler (Truma BG10). We activated both around midday on Friday, with the fridge on a medium setting and the boiler on the lower setting and left them running. We used very little hot water - no showers. When sitting outside the caravan I noticed that the fridge motor (or fan?) seemed to be running constantly. A full 6KG bottle of Propane had emptied by Sunday evening - approx 56 hours. Does this seem excessive?

Any advice or observations would be very much appreciated.

Richard

I have an 06 Triton 430 and when it arrived from Holland I put in a full 6 Kg propane cylinder and since then done 2 x 48 hr off grid weekends and one whole week with the fridge on gas however I have no water heater and rarely use it for cooking or heating
Done 4 trips this year without ever turning the cylinder on yet

So 11 x days running the fridge and rare occasional other use means I still have that 6 Kg cylinder after 4 years.

Conclusion is either your water heater uses a lot of gas or the fridge does, I remember Randa saying his fridge used a lot of gas when his 240 volt fridge element failed while away on one of his European epic trips.

We have a water heater (but only electric). Don't usually go off grid but wonder if you can heat water using the battery?

Magpie, no chance of running an electric heater off a battery I'm afraid.

My Dometic 4230 in my 2007 Triton uses 240g gas in 24 hours = 24 days from 6kg propane. (according to specification)
In my real world, I get between 10 and 12 days completely off grid using fridge, cooking and heating water for washing.

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I've just checked the specifications of both appliances and discovered that the fridge uses 18.3g/hr and the boiler 120g/hr when on gas.

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Quote: Ray Lawrence wrote in post #4

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Magpie, no chance of running an electric heater off a battery I'm afraid.

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Thank you all for the responses. Cold showers are the order of the day

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......Cold showers are the order of the day

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