One deep cycle battery and two fridges will it work?

Nothing wrong with running the two fridges off one battery Boo Boo.
Your only possible issue is obtaining sufficient charge for the battery to accommodate the two fridges. But having a battery for each fridge complicates the installation with little gain.

Boo Boo,

I am about to use that exact set up, 2 x 32l Engels running off 1 x 105aH battery for the trip to Silverton.

Have a second 105aH battery under the bonnet for my other 40l Engel that is used as a drinks fridge :)


Cheers Kev

G'day Boo Boo

I had 2 fridges when I went round Aussie, 1 as a freezer, 1 as a fridge. However I had 2 off 120AH deep cycle batteries in parallel to run them.

If you plonk yourself in one place for more than a couple of days then unless you get a solar panel or a generator (nooooo! I hate em) then it will just go flat. However if you only do short stays & move on you should be ok. It just depends what sort of travelling you do.

These days I just travel with one fridge & cryovac all the meat to save power instead of using 2 fridges.

Cheers
Stu

Boo Boo,
On a recent trip running 40 litre engel as freezer & 25 Litre waeco as fridge on warm days high 20s at lay day the 105 AH dedicated battery (new) was struggling, had to run the motor 15/20 mins to pick it up a bit. That was sitting in back of the Pajero with plenty of packing to cut down on airflow & lots of glass to help with heating.
Mike.

G'day BooBoo
Unless you are going to remote areas without services or have some special dietary requirements where you need to eat frozen food I wouldn't be bothered taking a freezer. as how you own a 52 litre Bushman.
If my memory serves me right those are a pretty good fridge. Just bush the power hungry Engel & buy produce along the way. It would be a lot easier.
Sometime over 15 years ago we did a 2 month trip to the Kimberleys with the kids. This was through what they now call remote areas. We started out with a heap of meat cryovacked & frozen in the bottom of the Trailblazer. Probably close to 3 or 4 weeks worth. What a waste of money & time that turned out to be.
A couple of times a week we would eat out somewhere. Then we would buy something every time we went past a butcher. Don't turn your nose up. There is one in nearly every town & the kids liked sausages. Then you would buy some seafood now & then as well.
So the long & short was that when we got home we fed a boned out leg of lamb to the dog that had travelled over 10,000 km with us to end up 500 yards from the butcher we bought it from.
The fridge, even though it kept the lamb frozen, wasn't cold enough to preserve it.
Even 2 years ago we bought very high quality meat from a butcher in Alice Springs & had it for tea the first 2 nights we were home a month later.