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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Coach manufactures are building rigs based on market demand. Remember when air conditioning in a car was not available, then optional and now you can't get a car without one. Same with the RV industry. Not that many years back a residential fridge first became an optional but increasingly new buyers were excising the option until a point came that production count topped more than 50% and the builders shifted the specs from optional, to standard configuration. I suspect they dropped the option for an absorption fridge to reduce production line costs and logistics. If think even with additional battery capacity, inverter and other support hardware the costs difference at a whole sale level are not much different maybe even a bit of savings with a residential.
For the OP, running thru my mind the conversion, regardless of the reasons why, I really don't think it would be very difficult for a confident DIY owner to undertake. Cut holes to install the vents, which are prefabricated and available. The gas line is nothing more that black pipe and a bit of flex at the fridge. 12 gauge romax wire for AC from the breaker panel and 16 gauge from the DC fuse panel. A bit of new trim and done. Hardest part is designing an efficient flue to vent heat and getting the new trim to match what is already there.
Can't help but wonder what the first forum posting by an owner looking to swap the absorption fridge to a residential model looked like. Probably a reverse of these postings. Lots of "Are you nuts", "The sky is falling", "It will never work, we're all going to die".
For the OP, running thru my mind the conversion, regardless of the reasons why, I really don't think it would be very difficult for a confident DIY owner to undertake. Cut holes to install the vents, which are prefabricated and available. The gas line is nothing more that black pipe and a bit of flex at the fridge. 12 gauge romax wire for AC from the breaker panel and 16 gauge from the DC fuse panel. A bit of new trim and done. Hardest part is designing an efficient flue to vent heat and getting the new trim to match what is already there.
Can't help but wonder what the first forum posting by an owner looking to swap the absorption fridge to a residential model looked like. Probably a reverse of these postings. Lots of "Are you nuts", "The sky is falling", "It will never work, we're all going to die".
