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C20
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Apr 15, 2019

New Fridge

Well not exactly. Our fridge blew it's boiler in Key west so we bought a little fridge at Sears to carry along. Went to RV cool in Greenbriar AR today and they put one of their units on it. Did an awesome job for $1300. As i type i can hear the cooling fans running on the new unit, never heard them before. They had hundreds of broken or burnt up units sitting around. Could be the best thing i ever bought for our RV.

The new equipment as been in about 3 hours and the fridge is freezing ice already.

It is a Norcold 1200

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  • Executive wrote:
    Before changing out to the residential, which was less than $1300 BTW, I installed three computer type fans above the fridge which help a lot. It seems one of the biggest issues with the 1200s is that the two fans they put on those fail all too often. Since they are pretty quiet you don't realize they've failed and since you can't see them you don't know it until it's too late. I found the 1200 was a great fridge when it's working properly, but when the second one failed, I switched to residential. Biggest difference is 12 cu ft vs 20 cu ft in the same space....best of luck to you. Enjoy camping....Dennis

    My 1200 is not cooling properly either. Would you please tell me what you replaced it with.
  • Before changing out to the residential, which was less than $1300 BTW, I installed three computer type fans above the fridge which help a lot. It seems one of the biggest issues with the 1200s is that the two fans they put on those fail all too often. Since they are pretty quiet you don't realize they've failed and since you can't see them you don't know it until it's too late. I found the 1200 was a great fridge when it's working properly, but when the second one failed, I switched to residential. Biggest difference is 12 cu ft vs 20 cu ft in the same space....best of luck to you. Enjoy camping....Dennis
  • We installed a new fan - factory ones were never heard. So far it's good. Also a Norcold 1200