Repair or replace fridge?
I have a Norcold 1200 LRIM refrigerator with a bad cooling unit. Obvious leak (ammonia smell etc.) The repair shop is telling me that replacing just the cooling unit at $1200 or so is not recommende...
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BGlegal1 wrote:
Of course replacing the entire fridge is several times the cost of just the cooling unit.
Cooling unit: $1,100.
Several times more would make it $3,000, eh?
Entire fridge: $1,200
Seems like honest shop - mere $2,000 in labor :)
PS: about RR fridges and developments in solar technology. The only major development in panels in the last 5-6 years was that prices dropped a lot, after China had flooded the market up to the limit and beyond. Controllers are not getting any cheaper.
LiPo batteries could change the game, maybe, I donno, prices are still ridiculous and this is not "solar", strictly speaking.
When I planned my 500W solar, I did this with a small and efficient compressor fridge in mind. Not 18 cu.ft RR, but 6-7 cu.ft with 12V DC compressor. More efficient than 120V RR fridge of same size. As it turned out, on a dark and wet winter day at Latitude 30 my 500W solar could barely keep up - without compressor fridge.
SMK is right, big 120V fridge is a burden when boondocking. In terms of solar array, the very minimum requirement would be 600-700W.
