Small Refrigerator Blew the Inverter

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An inverter follow up:

Using the 12v runs great with or without the Jackery for an extended time, but I prefer daisy chaining it with the Jackery. I ended up using the outlets on 'auto' so when the car is running, it will fill up the Jackery, and when the car is off the Jackery can easily power the refrigerator. Using the 3 day timer just was too flaky as I would not be the type to remember when 3 days are up. This also frees up the AC plug to make coffee. . For a shorter trip, I would be comfortable leaving the Jackery at home.

At home I tried a few overnight tests with the refrigerator plugged into the Jackery's AC outlet. I put the refrigerator on very low power levels (internal temperature around 65 degrees), and 3 times it stopped the Jackery AC outlet and failed after a few hours. The Jackery itself doesn't die, it just sort of self protects itself. It recovers just fine, just retoggle the switch with no error codes. The Jackery Support has been reasonably helpful but the unit is out of warranty.

My 'final' verdict
-- The refrigerator is sending out an imperfect signal
-- A standard outlet in a home has no problems with the messy signal
-- The Jackery can self protect and turn off the AC outlet with no issues
-- The Rivian struggled with dealing with the messy signal (whether that is a fundamental flaw or just a bad inverter in my car I do not know).

As mentioned by many others, just using the 12V plug is the best way to go.

thanks so much everyone!

For what it’s worth, I have a Jackery that I also use at home to power kitchen appliances during the hours that our electricity price doubles (TOU pricing). I noticed that it turned itself off when nothing was running - to save power, I guess. I was eventually able to go into the settings and eliminate this timeout. I’m wondering if setting your fridge high meant that it seldom came on, and triggered the Jackery to auto shutoff.

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For what it’s worth, I have a Jackery that I also use at home to power kitchen appliances during the hours that our electricity price doubles (TOU pricing). I noticed that it turned itself off when nothing was running - to save power, I guess. I was eventually able to go into the settings and eliminate this timeout. I’m wondering if setting your fridge high meant that it seldom came on, and triggered the Jackery to auto shutoff.

Interesting. Jackery Support did not mention this and I did one research but the timeout is after 12 hours, which my tests were shorter than that.