Advice-Replacing Norcold With Residential Fridge

I replaaced a smaller Norcold about 4 years ago and never looked back. I don't even worry leaving it unplugged going down the road. the temp remains w/in 1 degree after travelling 8 hours. Wish I had done this 20 yrs aago.

Not real close to you, but we just had our Norcold replaced with a residential reefer. We bought the reefer ourselves and had it dropped shipped to the custom RV remodeling shop. We added the Magnum CS2012-X Pure Sine inverter installed to power the reefer during driving.

They are TruLine RV in Spokane Valley, WA. Chad is the owner, the front desk is MacKenzie, and they do fantastic work. (We also had a Truma Aquago water heater installed; they are Truma dealers also.)

Good clean professional work.

Absolutely no regrets. Samsung RF18 will run on MSW inverter and draws around 10Amps from the batteries when running. I haven't checked the current draw on defrost....

wa8yxm wrote:
One caution just "Popped" UP, something I never thought about till... Well in a manner of speaking it happened to me (I have a standard RV fridge)

THe thread is titled "Replacing a Prosine 2.0"

Your Residential fridges are nice.. Provided the Inverter works.. Mine (inverter) just failed.. Thankfully I have a back up battery charger (Actually I use the other converter as the PRIMARY and the Prosine as the back up .. Long story) but My prosine just died.. So if I Boondock I'm w/o all 120vac less I burn gasoline. at 2.50/gallon/hour.

Doesn't that apply to everything? Your Cummings engine is nice....provided it works! Things fail. However, an inverter failing is not an indication that all inverters fail or are unreliable.
My residential fridge was installed in 1999 and is still running just fine. First on a MSW inverter and now on a TSW inverter. With 20 years fulltiming and 17 year of traveling full time I can tell you that there's really no reason to believe that inverters or household fridges in are RV are anything less than awesome!

USMC46 wrote:
My Norcold four door fridge has failed for the THIRD time. I've had it with Norcold. Anyone know of a reliable person to replace my Norcold with a residential fridge within a reasonable distance from Missoula, Mt. ? Anyone done this who regrets it ? Thanks.

In what part of the Country are you located? There are many good folks that can handle this (mandatory) conversion. Yes, I know, my is my opinion. In this case, if you are in your RV more than a couple of months a year, my opinion is also correct.
Get that worthless RV fridge out and start enjoying your travels with a device designed to keep your precious ice cream cold and frost free!

When I went residential I added a second complete power system with a PSW inverter. I left the MSW outlet for the ice maker in the No Cold so I have two inverter outlets plus a shore power outlet...or is that three?

One caution just "Popped" UP, something I never thought about till... Well in a manner of speaking it happened to me (I have a standard RV fridge)

THe thread is titled "Replacing a Prosine 2.0"

Your Residential fridges are nice.. Provided the Inverter works.. Mine (inverter) just failed.. Thankfully I have a back up battery charger (Actually I use the other converter as the PRIMARY and the Prosine as the back up .. Long story) but My prosine just died.. So if I Boondock I'm w/o all 120vac less I burn gasoline. at 2.50/gallon/hour.

My only mistake was not getting rid of my NoCold 1200 sooner $$$$. I replaced it myself
with the help of the DW. A EnergyStar refer is so efficient you can boondock by adding two batteries to power it.