I hope the RV manufacturers are happy(ier) ... it looks like they and the almighty dollar won again. They now get to deliver RV's at the same ever increasing prices but with much cheaper and easier for them to install residential refrigerators instead of absorption refrigerators that they, IMHO, have been improperly installing. The RV manufacturers also get to reap the additional profits from selling some of their RV's with large solar systems factory installed ... or the buyer has to go ahead and install large after-market solar systems on their own dime.
Our 2-way propane/120V AC absorption refrig has been operating superbly for over 11 years. It's mounted in our no-slide motorhome with a large cooling air vent in the roof right at the top of it's straight up air chimney, with no obstructions in the length of the air chimney, and a large outside cooling air intake down low in the air chimney. It has 5 coldness settings, and we need only use setting 3 most of the time. We sometimes use setting 4 in scorching weather, but have to remember to eventually turn it back down to setting 3 to keep milk in the fresh food section from having ice in it. Food stays frozen solid in the freezer all the time whether we use setting 3 or 4.
Our first RV was a 1969 motorhome and it's absorption refrigerator operated superbly too - for decades.
It seems like residential refrigerators in RVs run counter to the many complaint posts in the forums against use of generators when RV camping. It's too bad that absorption refrigerators have been getting a bad rap from mostly such a simple thing as -> bad installs.
