Any downside to a domestic refrigerator?
I'm am a total newb to RV'ing and I'm also new to this forum. I'm coming up on retirement and am researching the purchase of our first Class A RV for full-timing when we sell our house. I see that a...
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Back some time ago, my daughter was comparing printers before buying one for home. Her only professional contact way back then was her employers ITE contractor He told her that for the best results from peripheral she needed to by separate pieces for each function. Each time a manufacturer combined two pieces, printer & Scanner, both were a little less effective than as separate machines.
Since that time technology has changed and now we have very high grade printer/scanner/fax...
In a RV, if you try and go back to the separate function pieces of equipment you "generally" get a more efficient product. So the answer in my round about way is yes you gain a "generally" more efficient refrigerator if you buy a household refrigerator but you introduce a few more inefficient peripherals. Batteries are heavy and it takes more of them, I have two house batteries for the entire RV. Put a 18 or 20 cubic foot residential in and you need (from what I have read here) 4 to 6 more batteries, a large and expensive inverter to turn the 12 VDC to 120 VAC and some expensive wires, and, abigger RV to get the storage space and carry the extra weight..
If you are going full time and will be settled in at just a few places a year or season it'll work, if you move frequently, I think it may be a pain.
It's a trade off and really hard to answer without knowing how you are going to be RVing.
Since that time technology has changed and now we have very high grade printer/scanner/fax...
In a RV, if you try and go back to the separate function pieces of equipment you "generally" get a more efficient product. So the answer in my round about way is yes you gain a "generally" more efficient refrigerator if you buy a household refrigerator but you introduce a few more inefficient peripherals. Batteries are heavy and it takes more of them, I have two house batteries for the entire RV. Put a 18 or 20 cubic foot residential in and you need (from what I have read here) 4 to 6 more batteries, a large and expensive inverter to turn the 12 VDC to 120 VAC and some expensive wires, and, abigger RV to get the storage space and carry the extra weight..
If you are going full time and will be settled in at just a few places a year or season it'll work, if you move frequently, I think it may be a pain.
It's a trade off and really hard to answer without knowing how you are going to be RVing.
