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abideejay
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Oct 05, 2014

Residential Refrigerator???

I've got a travel trailer with a Dometic RM2652 absorption fridge. The fridge doesn't fridge anymore. :)

I've found this refrigerator at Home Depot: HMDR1030WE CLICKY

Does anyone have any real-world experience with this model? I'm not interested in the "this may work" or "the manual says it won't". I want REAL experience. I'm not particularly interested in fighting with the absorption fridge any longer, and I believe that going with a residential model will work for me.
  • You can still dry camp with a residential, it just takes a bit more planning. With all the talk about gas absorption and fire issues, I feel even better about the residential besides the 300.00 cost compared to the 12-1500.00 price tag.
  • if you don't dry camp pick whatever you want....keep it simple. for me, if I were to install another refrig it would still be a RV refrig. you can get yours repaired or find a used refirg.
  • We got the Magic Chef 10.0 at Home Depot a couple years back. Works great. Would never consider an absorption type fridge again. It fit our old hole almost perfectly (had to do a little trim at top). Never heard of your particular brand, but they are probably all the same.
  • Agree with previous post....we installed a Lowes Haier 10 cf refer and so far we've been very happy with it. Quite a bit more storage and cooling is excellent. I did write about my install so if you want to see what I did check my posts from a few months ago. I will say this, I insulated the entire enclosure, sealing off the outside vents....be sure to vent the hot air with additional fans thru the the roof. The heat does built up behind these residential units, I find myself most times placing a fan on the floor in front of frig to keep the temps down behind refrig....it works quite well. I put a wired thermometer behind fridge so I could keep tract of Temp's.
  • We bought similiar from Lowes and put in the back of our trailer. It works fine for us. The old fridge is now a pantry. We are permanent for now. we will ratchet strap it down if travel with it. It is much more efficient than the rv fridge and bigger. we got a estimate of over 1000 to swap the cooling unit in the rv fridge. maybe later down the road.