OK Don, I have to respond as you are playing a little fast and loose with the facts... :B
For the record, I'm the guy with the short Class C. Just because a residential unit would not fit in my C does not I am missing anything. Most RV's will not accommodate a residential frig without substantial modification. You have to get it to fit securely (and that opening is not going to match up in most cases), and bring clean AC power to it. Don't forget to secure the doors and be sure it has adequate ventilation.
We do agree it is not the ideal way to boondock. As I noted RV's are designed to minimize the use of AC power and other than the air conditioning and microwave nothing draws as much as a residential frig.
"How many of you who state they would never get a residential refer, yet find yourself opening your refer door and as quickly as you can find what you need and shut the door. Especially, in hot weather you don't want to let the cold air.Guess what.....that's not an issue with a residential unit. You can stand in front of the wide open doors and just stare....it won't affect the cooling and the refer won't take two hours to recover.
"An absorption refrigerator will cool the air around your food and keep it from spoiling, but the interior of the food won't reach the temperature of the air around it. A residential refrigerator will cool the food internally to the temp that the refer is set at."
I hope you are kidding. :R The local utility company used to run an add to demonstrate what happens when you open the door of any frig. They laid one down on its back and filled it with ping pong balls, stood it up and filmed the door being opened in slow motion. The ping pong balls represented the cold air inside. Guess what, the cold air falls out just as fast with a residential frig as a AC/LP model. Once that happens both units kick back on and commence to making more cold.
Your assertion that AC/LP units don't thoroughly cool/chill food is false. When a frig, any frig, is 36 degrees everything in it is 36 degrees so long as that cold is not lost by opening the door. The food in mine is just as cold as any residential frig set to the same temperature. Simply put, 36 degrees = 36 degrees regardless of the source.
I don't care if folks want to put in a residential frig. Aside from listening to their increased generator usage it doesn't affect me. For people who always have the luxury of AC power I see no down side but that is not how we use ours. Between boats and RV's I have been using, designing and installing, absorption refrigeration systems for 20+ years. Don't sell them short, as millions of happy owners will attest they work pretty well. :B
Like I said Opinions and YMMV. :C
