Residential Refridgerator

Kountryguy wrote:
I have been thinking about putting a residential unit in our rear kitchen fifth wheel trailer. Most that I have seen have shelves that just sit on the side supports. Might they be always be bouncing of during travel? How about glass shelves? Anyone with any experience? One other thing I have not seen discussed is how these units are fastened in so they do not move around. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

We fastened ours by drilling a whole on either side of the bottom frame and nut and bolting them in through the floor on the bottom. The top is wedged from the front back and them trimmed in. After almost two years it hasn't moved.

Powering it is no problem. A thousand watt sine wave inverter powered by two batteries and those in turn charged by the truck charge line will provide all the power the fridge needs while underway. If you plan on dry camping much, add an additional two batteries and two 160 watt panels. Residential fridges don't draw much power and are usually only on for 20 minutes out of an hour.

Good luck. Hope this helps.

We have 2 Residential Refrigerators, a large on in the Kitchen and a smaller one in the outdoor kitchen. While travel, I was told they would stay cold up to 12hrs without being plugged in and not opening the doors, most of my travels have been 4 hrs or less. I have also had electricity or a generator once at the sight. I did buy an invertor for that purpose, but haven't hooked it up yet. Was going to use it main while traveling down the road and TV keeping batteries recharged.

You may try and redo the shelving, inside walls are an ABS sheet with insulation behind it, but powering it without hookups would be a royal pain. Without going into details, here is the summarized electrical part: Residential Refrigerators

And of course there's also the question on how to power them while underway...