I've got a BougeRV 30L compressor fridge drawing around 3-4A average and a single 100Ah LiFePO4 (Fogstar Drift) in my Transit conversion. On paper that should be plenty — 100Ah usable down to 80% DoD gives me 80Ah, and the fridge should only need maybe 50-60Ah over 12 hours. But in practice I'm waking up to a battery that's sat around 20-25% by morning, especially on warm nights.
I've checked with a Victron BMV-712 so the readings are fairly trustworthy. The fridge is set to 4°C and the van does get warm overnight in summer — ambient inside probably 22-25°C — so the compressor is cycling more than I'd expect. I'm also running a small Maxxair fan on low which pulls maybe 0.5A continuously, so that's another 6Ah gone overnight. Still, the numbers don't quite add up to me.
Has anyone else found their real-world overnight draw much higher than the theoretical figures? I'm wondering whether it's worth adding a second 100Ah battery or if there's something obvious I'm missing — insulation around the fridge, lid vs front-opening efficiency, that sort of thing. Would love to hear what setups are actually working for people.