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Gdetrailer
Oct 19, 2014Explorer III
Almot wrote:
Steve and Gdetrailer:
I am aware of all those dimensions and that home fridges have no cooling unit in the back.
Could measure again, but to my records, current - very typical - 6.3 Norcold is sitting in 25" deep space, REAR WALL TO OUTSIDE DOOR PANEL. 26.3/4" deep fridge would fit in 25" space just fine :)...
Dinette is across the fridge, not next to it. Fridge already sticks out the most, in the kitchen row on that side.
There could exist 7cf models that fit, haven't found them yet. Not among reputable brands. Buying unknown Chinese gizmo is asking for trouble, some of them are louder than fire alarm bell in my work, and then they stop working after a year.
What A/C? I'm off-grid on solar. When I'm gone fishing for a day with all windows closed, it gets real hot inside. When you keep inside temps 60-70, then you can cool the fridge with the inside air. And then you have energy numbers lower than they otherwise would've been.
When traveling I keep the windows closed, no vents open and the inside often gets to 80F-90F. Fridge does fine in that environment with no real noticeable change in on run time.
We often stop overnight during the summer, run a gen to run the A/C for ten minutes or so to cool the TT down to a more comfortable sleeping temp.. which is often 78F.. Sometimes though we have encountered night time temps dipping to 50-60 in the mountains and will set the furnace to run overnight..
As far as finding a true fully 100% American built fridge in the US built with 100% US materials with 100% us labor.. Forget about it, just plain doesn't happen now days.
Even the main stream name brands simply have the fridges built outside the states and shipped in containers from overseas..
Pretty hard to convince a closed mind that it can work for many if you don't mind doing a little renovation.
As for me, never looking back to hugging a RV fridge.
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