Help with electric converter switch

[Tamaraleigh]

New 5th wheel owners and need to know where to set this switch when unhooked from electricity and traveling down the road. Also need to know where to set it when we are unhitched, plugged in to a 50 amp, and camping.

 

[Mark_K5LXP]

Generally you have it turned on any time you're using the RV. The only time it's off is when it's stored.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

 

[Tamaraleigh]

Thanks! So, just to verify, we have an electric fridge and while we are traveling the fridge will stay on all the time even if we aren’t plugged in to electricity? True?

Our old camper didn’t have this switch, but had a converter switch on the fridge. This one does not, so just trying to figure it all out.

 

[John From Detroit]

Inverters (needed to run a "Residential" type fridge often bypass that switch. And on a trailer they WILL run down the battery if on while traveling. (Check the fridge to see if it is on or off when that switch is off) They suck serious power when running 10-20 amps for most of them Now a high efficiiency RV fridge. What I call a "Danfoss" type (one of the companies that make the compressors) 3-4 amps when it's running.. about the same as an incandescent RV 2-bulb light fixture.

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

So, just to verify, we have an electric fridge and while we are traveling the fridge will stay on all the time even if we aren’t plugged in to electricity? True?

You will have to tell us more about that "electric fridge" to be sure, but the answer is probably yes. Fridge make & model would be a big help. If it is an 120v electric-only model then it requires an inverter to get power from batteries and you didn't mention having an INverter.