Residential Fridge or Not?
the Wife and I are shopping and we see a lot of fivers with residential Fridges and Inverters in them now. Are they really more prone to breakdown because of the bouncing around in the trailer or it ...
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rjxj wrote:
I still have a Dometic but read all I can about residential. If I do get one I dont think using it in an RV is an issue. I dont drive fast on dirt roads, I usually crawl so I dont think I would be hammering it enough to hurt it. Maybe I'm wrong? My concern is mainly energy use. I have four 6 volts and 520 watts of solar. I dont think I would have a problem and might only have to run my Honda 3000 if there were a few bad days. I have had a couple people tell me that they had friends that had them and couldn't install on enough solar to keep up. Who knows what their install was like? Maybe they wired it with 16 gauge. Sounds like BS. It's just a matter of crunching the numbers for each model and figuring out their expected energy use is. My solar stuff is new so I'm not 100% in tune to how well it will do this winter. I have a Bogart 30 solar control and a Trimetric so I will be able to monitor it better this year.
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We also have a Dometic, 440AH of 6V and 520+W of solar. While we are very happy with our current fridge, we would like the greater capacity of a residential. What stops us is the extra weight of additional batteries. The Dometic weighs 242lbs. a Samsung, 232lbs. Adding 2-4 batteries dedicated to the fridge means 130-260 lbs. additional weight (and where would we put them?). Something else would have to go or we would have to run without full fresh water tanks. While we are not at our rig's capacity, we are close (around 90% with full fresh). So we will continue to think on it until our current dometic dies. If we are lucky, it will last the 15 years yours has!
