Norcold Kaput

You probably never dry camp, so I say go with the Samsung frig. If you dry camp a lot then I say get another Norcold seems like you got 13 years out of it. You can not complain about thirteen years usage.

Living in Indiana there should be all kinds of places where they service coaches. That is the capital of the RV industry, around Nappanee, Ind.

We had our residential refer installed at Master Tech RV in Elkhart. They did an exceptional job on the cabinetry; it looks like it was factory installed. Depending on the model you have installed, expect to pay $3000. Cold beer, hard ice cream, and no defrosting....it's worth it.

Get it rebuilt by National RV Refrigeration in Shipshewana IN. Amish owned company that rebuilds your unit with his cooling coil design. 3 year warranty at his shop.
Very good company! $995 to rebuild our 4 door 7 year old Norcold and took our $500 deductible for Good Sam Extended Warranty last September. Freezer now reads "0°" never did before, keeps ice cream & Popsicles frozen!

Dachristianman wrote:
I just did this job on mine. I bought a new Amish cooling unit for somewhere around $750 and installed it myself. Not a bad job once I got the fridge out. Someone had used some black goopy stuff on the bottom of my fridge and that made it a pain to get out. Otherwise I had the cooling unit swapped out in about 2 hours.

My RV is a 92 but I opted for the new cooling unit despite the warnings about the old electronics, etc. A residential is an option, but I don't think they're designed for the shaking that it'll put up with. Besides, you can't run a residential on gas, but then again with the solar unit, you might not need to.

Good luck and let us know which way you go.

Tom

Ok but was it a 1200 series? I exspect not

I just did this job on mine. I bought a new Amish cooling unit for somewhere around $750 and installed it myself. Not a bad job once I got the fridge out. Someone had used some black goopy stuff on the bottom of my fridge and that made it a pain to get out. Otherwise I had the cooling unit swapped out in about 2 hours.

My RV is a 92 but I opted for the new cooling unit despite the warnings about the old electronics, etc. A residential is an option, but I don't think they're designed for the shaking that it'll put up with. Besides, you can't run a residential on gas, but then again with the solar unit, you might not need to.

Good luck and let us know which way you go.

Tom

For those contemplating installing a residential, Samsung according to their web site "frequently asked questions" says their refers will run on a modified sign wave inverter as the incoming 120 volt AC current is converted to a DC (direct current) and the refer runs on this DC voltage. I found this out after purchasing a pure sine wave inverter that a repair tech said I needed. I had a control panel failure and he said it was caused by the modified sine wave, later found out they (Samsung) had a problem with some early versions of this panel.
My 24.5 cu.ft. Samsung has been running 24/7 for a year and a half now and love it. These new refers run so efficiently that mine will run on 4 house batteries for approximately for over 24 hours with out recharging with limited door openings.
Blessings KDK

Well the Residential will run you from 1100 to 1800 depending what you want. Ours was 1100 on sale for a 22 cubic foot. Many like the Samsung RF197 which seem to be around 1400. You already have the inverter and four batteries so that's all done. If you hire someone to install it count on around 400 including trim work. The only thing else would be to decide if you intend to dry camp a lot. If do factor in another 600 to 900 dollars for a solar system. A 360 watt system would do but 500 would be excellent. Either way, once you go residential you'll never look back.

Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.

If you opt to keep your Norcold refer I highly recommend replacing the cooling unit with the Dutch made unit and if you do, make sure the tech is thouroughly qualified to do a proper installation.

Best of luck and safe travels...

Before jumping In with both feet, take a look at this web site, in particular video #4.

Refrigerator Repair

fred

My extended warranty paid for the Amish changeout. I believe it was about $1800..parts and labor....and yes, the Amish units are in Shipshawana...call David Force..easy to talk to and very knowledgeable....Dennis