Shadow Hunter wrote:
Well I've been speaking with a sales rep for Northstar Campers and am leaning towards a Laredo SC. I am likely ordering one custom from the factory to have the options that I want. I am up in the air about two options at the moment.
I would also like to have a 12v reefer installed. It is the Dometic CR110. This one operates on electric power only, not LP. Does anyone here use these types of reefers, or mainly the 3 way?
My understanding is a compressor reefer is more efficient than an absorption reefer, and I don't have to worry about leveling the camper exactly right for the three way propane reefer to work. After looking around the internet I cannot find any literature explaining whether the reefer would work when hooked to shore power (at home). I would guess there is a converter (inverter?) that would allow the reefer to work when plugged into 110 or 220 volts? If I am off base please let me know.
Most people use 2 way, not three way absorption refrigerators since the 12 volt current draw is very high.
I don't have one but there have been a fair amount of positive posts on the 12 volt compression refrigerators. The big caveat is power. Make sure you have enough battery/solar power to handle it. It wouldn't work for us up here in the Pacific Northwest as we often camp in the forests in winter under a gray sky. My solar panel does nothing for those six months of the year and my furnace, lights and other demands can run down two batteries to 50% in a couple of days so we can just make it through a weekend. Adding a compression refrigerator would mean we would have to run a generator. Your own mileage will vary depending on where and how you camp.
