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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.
I mean it's probably labeled, right? How hard could it be?
Exactly. Find a hole that's black and a hole that's red, and stick some wires in there. How hard could it be?
(can't answer, because she was fucking electrocuted)