Getting Rid of a Residential Refrigerator
I want to move up from Class C to Class A but, from what I am reading, one would want to avoid a residential refrigerator like the plague. I love the Norcold in my Jayco Melbourne; it is a marvel of ...
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The Dometic fridge problem was on some 1997-2006 2 door models. Our 4 door 1360 keeps ice cream just fine.
When we purchased our rig, one of the deciding factors was having a propane fridge. We did not want to rely on electric only.
We have 600W of solar with 440AH AGM batteries and a 1200W pure sine inverter. And we still don't want an electric only fridge. We do not want to run the generator for an hour or two a day just for the fridge, we don't want to have to plug in or drive to keep the batteries charged for the fridge, we don't want to constantly have to monitor our batteries and conserve power just to run a fridge.
We had 4 days of rain recently in Oregon. We didn't have to worry about running the generator to keep our food cold - the propane did that. And we didn't have to conserve power to keep the fridge running - we did what we wanted. It all comes down to what your priorities are. Not having to listen to the generator is one of ours.
When we purchased our rig, one of the deciding factors was having a propane fridge. We did not want to rely on electric only.
We have 600W of solar with 440AH AGM batteries and a 1200W pure sine inverter. And we still don't want an electric only fridge. We do not want to run the generator for an hour or two a day just for the fridge, we don't want to have to plug in or drive to keep the batteries charged for the fridge, we don't want to constantly have to monitor our batteries and conserve power just to run a fridge.
We had 4 days of rain recently in Oregon. We didn't have to worry about running the generator to keep our food cold - the propane did that. And we didn't have to conserve power to keep the fridge running - we did what we wanted. It all comes down to what your priorities are. Not having to listen to the generator is one of ours.
