• themeatbridge
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    701 year ago

    Funny thing, most modern refrigerators use DC motors for their compressors so that they can run at variable speeds, so there’s likely an inverter that you could bypass if you know the appropriate voltage. The DC ones for RVs are the same internals, just without the inverter.

    • @nixcamic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Correction: they still use AC motors, but those motors don’t use line AC. It goes line AC > rectifier > DC > inverter board > variable frequency AC to run the compressor motor.

      Most RV fridges just use DC motors, but there are some that use VFDs and AC motors.

    • @DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz
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      151 year ago

      Funny thing, most modern refrigerators use DC motors for their compressors so that they can run at variable speeds

      No they don’t…they use AC motors and a VFD to control the speed.

    • Jojo
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      71 year ago

      I mean it’s probably labeled, right? How hard could it be?

      • themeatbridge
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        11 year ago

        Exactly. Find a hole that’s black and a hole that’s red, and stick some wires in there. How hard could it be?

        • Jojo
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          21 year ago

          (can’t answer, because she was fucking electrocuted)