Which replacement fridge?
I have to replace the fridge i my motor home as My norcold has died. my question is norcold better then dometic or vise-a-versa?
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bob_b wrote:
Those AC/DC fridges are nice, however $1300 can buy three or four residential fridges. I paid $299 for mine. I paid almost as much again for the inverter ...
Here you go. 120V res fridges are for 120V hook-ups living. Getting it for offgrid camping is a cheaper but not really a good solution. You will have inverter overhead, and 120V fridge itself will draw bit more than comparable size 12V fridge because of high start-up current. Even without inverter losses, to come even close to the efficiency of 12V fridge, a 120V residential has to be a decent and modern model, and those cost more. Not to mention that most of them are 28-30" or wider, and a typical LP fridge of trailer of 5-er has 25" enclosure. When you will eventually find a 120V fridge ~7 cu.ft or bigger, under 26" width and super-efficient (for 120V unit anyway), it will be way over $299.
Though this all is not what the OP asked, and he probably stopped reading after the first few off-topic responses :)... Now, I don't know whether a propane Dometic is better than his defunct Norcold, but given somewhat weaker reputation of Norcold and roughly same prices, I would go for Dometic.
