Currently have a Dometic 4 door, 13cu ft?, fridge. It is working fine but want to keep one step ahead of the game if it suddenly decides to go AWOL.I have pretty much decided to go the route of getting a domestic fridge if & when the Dometic dies. The one I have is a replacement on the original & was near $5000 installed after #1 died. Don't want to go down that road again.We occasionally dry camp. Already have a more than capable pure sine wave inverter charger & have about 220amps on the AGM 4D battery.The biggest concern is the size, specifically the depth since with slide in the left door is very close to hard up against drawers of island type galley.Samsung has a french door styled fridge that might fit. Any other suggestions?

Hi,If your pocket book can stand it get a unit that runs on 12 volts--that eliminates the 12% loss of energy that even a good inverter offers.

Stay away from Samsung. OEM's have dropped Samsung because finding a Service Center that will work on Samsung refers IN RV's is difficult to find. I live in the DFW Texas area(VERY large area) and we cannot get any Samsung Authorized Service people to come work on Samsung in RV's. Not a problem if you expect to have NO problems under the Samsun warranty, but a big problem if it does malfunction. Remember, you disassemble both the Dometic interior doors and door brackets to remove the refer. You do the same to the Residential when installing it, so it does free up some space. Just make sure you do NOT have a curved roof in the refer cabinet where the interior roof meets the sidewall. The top of the Residential will probably hit that curved spot and you cannot get it in that last 1 to 2 inches. The last one I had that did that, I had enough space to notch out that part of the interior roof to get the refer all the way in. Doug

Another option.. This company: JC refridgeration makes conversion cooling units for your fridge that turn it into a normal compressor type cooling unit. They come in either 12VDC or 120VAC.That way you can keep exactly what you have and have the power and reliability of a residential fridge.

ScottG wrote:Another option.. This company: JC refridgeration makes conversion cooling units for your fridge that turn it into a normal compressor type cooling unit. They come in either 12VDC or 120VAC.That way you can keep exactly what you have and have the power and reliability of a residential fridge.Was not aware of this option. The Samsung appears to be at least 4" deeper than the Dometic installed. No way I have that much space with slide in.Will have to think about the mod. Just so happens & can make a detour without much of a problem to them next summer.

Veebyes wrote:ScottG wrote:Another option.. This company: JC refridgeration makes conversion cooling units for your fridge that turn it into a normal compressor type cooling unit. They come in either 12VDC or 120VAC.That way you can keep exactly what you have and have the power and reliability of a residential fridge.Was not aware of this option. The Samsung appears to be at least 4" deeper than the Dometic installed. No way I have that much space with slide in.Will have to think about the mod. Just so happens & can make a detour without much of a problem to them next summer.One of the projects I plan on doing this winter is to reinstall our fridge to the exact spec's written by Norcold. The manufacturers doesn't pay much attention to them and I can see some of the clearances are wrong.If that doesn't make the mediocre performance of its cooling unit work better, I will install one of the 12VDC compressor units.

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Veebyes
Explorer II
Nov 26, 2018
ScottG wrote:
Another option.. This company: JC refridgeration makes conversion cooling units for your fridge that turn it into a normal compressor type cooling unit. They come in either 12VDC or 120VAC.
That way you can keep exactly what you have and have the power and reliability of a residential fridge.

Was not aware of this option. The Samsung appears to be at least 4" deeper than the Dometic installed. No way I have that much space with slide in.

Will have to think about the mod. Just so happens & can make a detour without much of a problem to them next summer.
ScottG
Nomad
Nov 25, 2018
Another option.. This company: JC refridgeration makes conversion cooling units for your fridge that turn it into a normal compressor type cooling unit. They come in either 12VDC or 120VAC.
That way you can keep exactly what you have and have the power and reliability of a residential fridge.
dougrainer
Nomad
Nov 25, 2018
Stay away from Samsung. OEM's have dropped Samsung because finding a Service Center that will work on Samsung refers IN RV's is difficult to find. I live in the DFW Texas area(VERY large area) and we cannot get any Samsung Authorized Service people to come work on Samsung in RV's. Not a problem if you expect to have NO problems under the Samsun warranty, but a big problem if it does malfunction. Remember, you disassemble both the Dometic interior doors and door brackets to remove the refer. You do the same to the Residential when installing it, so it does free up some space. Just make sure you do NOT have a curved roof in the refer cabinet where the interior roof meets the sidewall. The top of the Residential will probably hit that curved spot and you cannot get it in that last 1 to 2 inches. The last one I had that did that, I had enough space to notch out that part of the interior roof to get the refer all the way in. Doug
pianotuna
Nomad III
Nov 25, 2018
Hi,

If your pocket book can stand it get a unit that runs on 12 volts--that eliminates the 12% loss of energy that even a good inverter offers.

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