RV Service and Repair??????????????
Am I the only one who is seeing downright bad RV repair/service these days? My fridge stopped cooling back in June. I called Dometic who gave me a local certified Dometic repair company. He came ou...
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!. If you have ammonia smell then the cooling unit has a hole, lost its gases and needs to be replaced. If a repair shop says they need a few hours to figure this out then they did you a favor, go somewhere else bc they are ignorant or tying to soak you for more money.
Holes can be repaired, but the unit is corroded from within and the next hole could be just a flake of rust away from appearing. It is unwise to repair.
Buy the cooling unit yourself $600 and if you have to then pay someone to install it.
Older fridges may not have available cooling units for them. Slap out of luck if this is the case, the whole fridge is junk.
What frige you needs all depends on how you use your camper. Do you drive from campground to campground, do you boondock for days on end, do you do long trips, short trips, how often do you camp…
If you plug in every night or you will run a generator the rest of the time then maybe a regular house frig will work.
If you are never plugged in and don't carry a generator then the propane frige makes sense.
If you tour around and maybe are parking off-level a lot in parking lots then consider a DC powered frig with the Danfoss compressor. (lots of post about this topic).
Those fridges use very little power (two batteries usually enough coupled with 100-200 watts of solar or drive every day or two to recharge). You can get an upright if you spend enough, or get a chest type. One or two compartments in different sizes. The two have freezer and fridge temp settings, and the one has one setting. Do you need to freeze food as well as chill food?
The chest would need to sit out, not in the fridge hole, and you would close off the fridge vents on roof and side.
These are great units.
There is a compressor conversion for some propane fridges available.
Holes can be repaired, but the unit is corroded from within and the next hole could be just a flake of rust away from appearing. It is unwise to repair.
Buy the cooling unit yourself $600 and if you have to then pay someone to install it.
Older fridges may not have available cooling units for them. Slap out of luck if this is the case, the whole fridge is junk.
What frige you needs all depends on how you use your camper. Do you drive from campground to campground, do you boondock for days on end, do you do long trips, short trips, how often do you camp…
If you plug in every night or you will run a generator the rest of the time then maybe a regular house frig will work.
If you are never plugged in and don't carry a generator then the propane frige makes sense.
If you tour around and maybe are parking off-level a lot in parking lots then consider a DC powered frig with the Danfoss compressor. (lots of post about this topic).
Those fridges use very little power (two batteries usually enough coupled with 100-200 watts of solar or drive every day or two to recharge). You can get an upright if you spend enough, or get a chest type. One or two compartments in different sizes. The two have freezer and fridge temp settings, and the one has one setting. Do you need to freeze food as well as chill food?
The chest would need to sit out, not in the fridge hole, and you would close off the fridge vents on roof and side.
These are great units.
There is a compressor conversion for some propane fridges available.
