House Refrigerator VS RV Refrigerator

creeper wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
You must have had a real dud. 2-3 hrs ahead of time is usually fine. If you are packing it with pre-chilled food, you can turn it on when you load the fridge.

Not at all. I know lots of people who do that, plus my instruction manual said the same thing to bring it up to operating temp.

You must have really got some kind of a dud if the manual called for a 5 day cool down before use.

Rv fridge always have trouble keeping up on hotter days.Never had this issue. Were you per chance leaving the door open...a lot?

Nope door not left open. Common problem discussed many times around the campfire with many other people. Many discussions on how to deal with the issue. Along with the defrosting issue. I've camped since I was a little kid. Never had an issue unless the door was constantly being opened.

RV fridge has many accessories fans to make them cool better.What fans?

Don't spend much time in RV stores? Yes the make cooling fans that will go into the exhaust area of the unit to move more air and have it cool as well as fans to go in the fridge itself to move air across the cooling fans. Made by dozens of manufacturers, because it's a pesky problem. No I don't. I spend it out camping. They sell lots of strange things. Never seen them in use or seen the need. Who said they don't use the same fans on compressor based fridges.

RV fridge very dangerous, lots of fires.Electricity can cause fires too. The few RV fires I've seen and heard of were all electrical. Not saying you can't have a propane fire but it's not the end of the world.

In all the years of owning residential fridges I've never had a manufacture contact me about the their fridge causing fire. I still have Dometic haunting me to have my propane fridge repaired for fire hazard and we sold the coach. They are begging us to locate the new owner for them. Sounds like and issue. Finding a coach burned down because of a propane fridge is easy to find. A little melodrama there...You most likely didn't hear from the compressor based fridge company because its easier to pass off wiring issues as wear and tear.

Generally smallish.They come in different sizes just like compressor based dorm fridges aren't the only size you can get.

Yes, and our last one propane was double door side by side with a separate freezer. I've yet to see a propane fridge in any coach that is the size of our Kitchen aid residential.

So if I decide to run a catering buisness out of the RV, I'll consider the switch so I can get a bigger unit. Until then the simplicity of the absorbtion fridge makes a lot of sense if you are away from power posts at times.