Residentail refrigerators in motorhomes

chili's trip wrote:

northmeck0255 wrote:

ClassAGeek wrote:
I am always fascinated by these threads...

"We ONLY need to run the generator 4 hours a day since adding a residential fridge".

Isn't this a major disadvantage?

Full Disclosure: After 5 years of camping we finally past 10 hours on the generator this summer. That's 10 hours lifetime.

Having to run a generator daily would be enough for me to quit camping altogether. Am I the only one?

Yes. ;)

No!

NO! If I had to run the generator four hours a day, I think I would find another way rather then a residential type refrigerator.

If you are going to have full hook up's all your life, THEN! I can see a residential refrigerator. But if I was to dry camp a lot, THEN I would have to make a tough decision as to whether to invest on a costly venture of installing a pure sine inverter, adding two more batteries, modify the slot where the frig goes, also would have to find a place to install the extra two batteries because there is no more room in the compartment now. There are six batteries in there already. Two chassis and four house. Need a electrician to rewire all this changes, and a carpenter that would do a good job. You do not want a half a** job looking like an add on. But if you plan to be on a campground all the time with full hook ups, Then a residential is the way to go.

I guess I have been one of the lucky persons with the Norcold 1200LRIM because it has been a very good refrigerator for the last ten years whether in 120 degree weather in Laughlin, Nev. or cooler places in the pacific northwest. I just adjusted the thermistor up or down and can get it to cool a lot or not so much. The freezer has always kept the ice cream frozen solid and the steaks solid like a rock. So like I said, I must be one lucky guy.

But I still keep my eyes open on some of these articles (especially)the refrigerator that impresses me the most is the SamSung RF197 ACRS.