House Refrigerator VS RV Refrigerator
Been looking at new 5th wheel trailers about half coming with house refrigerator (110 volt only) and the other half coming with large RV refrigerator (propane, 110 volt). Not sure if going with a h...
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Chris Bryant wrote:
A huge irony in all of this- Dometic makes and sells *a lot* of absorption refrigerators to hotels for mini bars. They buy them because they are silent.
They also just divested themselves of their medical branch, who makes absorption and compressor driven coolers for worldwide use- systems like this one.
Absorbtion mini fridges, which are in many hotels,is something that I did not know. They use them because they are silent. The problem is, these are all electric units which must be on the grid and would kill batteries in an RV in hours if not minutes. Google energy consumption and cooling efficiency for the compressor vs absorbtion mini bars and you will find there is no comparison. A study that I read from Denmark said up to 10% of hotel electric energy costs where from absorbtion mini bars.
Dave
