Residential Fridge

I regret the one that came in my coach. The Maytag in our house works great and is well built. The Maytag in my coach is very cheaply made and doesn’t cool nearly as well as the one in the house.

How do you plan on getting it in the coach?

dodge guy wrote:
How do you plan on getting it in the coach?

With the doors off it is 23 inches deep. My door opening is 24 inches.

our first Travel trailer came new with a whirlpool residential (can't remember size but wasn't double door), two 12volt wally world batteries and 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter. current TT has rv dometic fridge

you should be good with the 4 6 volts

-loved the storage space of the residential and didn't take as long to cool down. left it running while traveling down the road. 8 to 9 hours at a time on longer trips

-i could go 24 hours easy using the batteries and not drop below 50 percent charge even in hot weather.

-we don't boondock so it worked great for us

-our rv fridge does seem to keep a more constant temperature. 36 in fridge neg 2 in freezer. the residential seemed to have more swings in temps depending on outside temps but nothing major

-overall i've been happy with both. i do like the convenience of running on propane if needed.

sgfrye wrote:
our first Travel trailer came new with a whirlpool residential (can't remember size but wasn't double door), two 12volt wally world batteries and 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter. current TT has rv dometic fridge

you should be good with the 4 6 volts

-loved the storage space of the residential and didn't take as long to cool down. left it running while traveling down the road. 8 to 9 hours at a time on longer trips

-i could go 24 hours easy using the batteries and not drop below 50 percent charge even in hot weather.

-we don't boondock so it worked great for us

-our rv fridge does seem to keep a more constant temperature. 36 in fridge neg 2 in freezer. the residential seemed to have more swings in temps depending on outside temps but nothing major

-overall i've been happy with both. i do like the convenience of running on propane if needed.

I also like the convenience of propane, I could go with a new cooling unit, but the fridge is 24 years old. A new RV fridge is tripple in price as a residential, thats why I'm going with Residential.

340W when running is REALLY high for a EnergyStar...my 21cuft Whirlpool uses 8 amps DC (96W) measured before the inverter. 2 batteries should run a EnergyStar refrigerator for 24 hours before needing to recharge as it only runs 40% of the time.

340W when running is REALLY high for a EnergyStar...my 21cuft Whirlpool uses 8 amps DC (96W) measured before the inverter. 2 batteries should run a EnergyStar refrigerator for 24 hours before needing to recharge as it only runs 40% of the time.

This is the first RV we've had that came with a residential style fridge. It's HUGE! Built-in ice maker/dispenser. What I really like is that it's self defrosting. The fridge in my last class A was an absorption style, and I'd have to manually defrost it every few months in humid FL.

We don't really boondock, so the power consumption is reasonable when parked for a period of hours, using an 1800W PSW inverter and 4 golf cart batteries.

I've just recently opted to leave it running on the inverter constantly when traveling. That way the fridge never loses power when shutting down the generator when connecting to shore power. It also will keep the fridge running if shore power fails, which has happened a few times in my travels.

Just be sure to use bungees or equivalent to secure the doors. They likely won't latch like the RV style units.

This is our 3rd MH, but first with a residential fridge. It is more space than we need but it was there and the price was right. Haven't used it enough to give a good answer, but it seems to be great. Certainly don't have to worry about the running out of propane and everything spoiling. Not crazy about the stainless cabinet. Shows fingerprints! Don't think we would switch back to the RV type

kenbert wrote:

sgfrye wrote:
our first Travel trailer came new with a whirlpool residential (can't remember size but wasn't double door), two 12volt wally world batteries and 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter. current TT has rv dometic fridge

you should be good with the 4 6 volts

-loved the storage space of the residential and didn't take as long to cool down. left it running while traveling down the road. 8 to 9 hours at a time on longer trips

-i could go 24 hours easy using the batteries and not drop below 50 percent charge even in hot weather.

-we don't boondock so it worked great for us

-our rv fridge does seem to keep a more constant temperature. 36 in fridge neg 2 in freezer. the residential seemed to have more swings in temps depending on outside temps but nothing major

-overall i've been happy with both. i do like the convenience of running on propane if needed.

I also like the convenience of propane, I could go with a new cooling unit, but the fridge is 24 years old. A new RV fridge is tripple in price as a residential, thats why I'm going with Residential.

price is a part of the equation also. i would not replace my rv fridge with another when it comes time because we don't boondock. i would go residential.