Residential fridge upgrade?
It's looking like our Dometic NDR1402 "Z-Door" side by side may not be long for this world. What started as "it doesn't cool when we are moving" has turned into "the fridge cools fine but the freez...
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I recently installed one myself. It is a Whirlpool WRT771RWYB 21 cu ft which is the closest I could find that would fit BUT it was still 3/4" too high for the Nocold 1200 I replaced. I was able to make it fit without loosing the drawer below... happy DW.
I was at HDepot getting water line fittings and they have basically the same Whirlpool refer on sale for $648 plus $99 for a ice maker... I bought mine at a Sear's Outlet for $500 including ice maker, but that was eight months ago as scratch and dent. In years of looking this is only refer over 16 cu ft I found that was not 70" tall.
WRT311FZDW... white
WRT311FZDB... black
SS for $949. I have seen same refer with water on the door, but not ice.
I added a separate battery bank (500 AH AGM) and a 1000W PSW inverter with a 100 amp charger and transfer switch as we boondock often. When running it's 8 amps into the inverter (100W) and 22 amps during the icemaker harvests cycle. Amazing how energy efficient these Energy Star refers have gotten. The compressor is not much bigger than a grapefruit.
Just got back from first camping trip with it and I did a test of my battery system even though we had power. Did not get on the DW about leaving the door open too long...:B and used a fair amount of ice. The batteries started at 13.2V and 24 hours later they were at 12.5V. After one hour with the 100 amp charger they were back to 13.2V. Could probably go 36 hours before reaching the 50% point on the batteries but we usually run the generator every evening.
Slide note: With the LR slide in the refer is not any further into the hallway than the slide itself.
I was at HDepot getting water line fittings and they have basically the same Whirlpool refer on sale for $648 plus $99 for a ice maker... I bought mine at a Sear's Outlet for $500 including ice maker, but that was eight months ago as scratch and dent. In years of looking this is only refer over 16 cu ft I found that was not 70" tall.
WRT311FZDW... white
WRT311FZDB... black
SS for $949. I have seen same refer with water on the door, but not ice.
I added a separate battery bank (500 AH AGM) and a 1000W PSW inverter with a 100 amp charger and transfer switch as we boondock often. When running it's 8 amps into the inverter (100W) and 22 amps during the icemaker harvests cycle. Amazing how energy efficient these Energy Star refers have gotten. The compressor is not much bigger than a grapefruit.
Just got back from first camping trip with it and I did a test of my battery system even though we had power. Did not get on the DW about leaving the door open too long...:B and used a fair amount of ice. The batteries started at 13.2V and 24 hours later they were at 12.5V. After one hour with the 100 amp charger they were back to 13.2V. Could probably go 36 hours before reaching the 50% point on the batteries but we usually run the generator every evening.
Slide note: With the LR slide in the refer is not any further into the hallway than the slide itself.
