New cooling unit or refurbish?
I need to make a decision shortly on which way to go for a Dometic cooling unit. If I send my unit in for repairs it will cost around $870 U.S. with a 5 year warranty. If I buy a new unit it w...
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GuyCanRV wrote:
OK I will fill you folks in a bit more now.
My unit is installed in my residential home. I don't have an RV.
I use 120 V exclusively.
My unit has been super!
Junk it.
Don't put one penny into repairing.
If you had no electricity and was using propane exclusively I could understand why you would be putting this much effort into your fridge. But you are not using propane.
You are just throwing money away not just in the repair but in electricity.
Residential fridge is what you should be using not an ammonia filled absorbsion fridge.
Ammonia absorbsion cycle is very slow to recover from opening the door or putting warm food in it. Uses THREE times the energy than a compressor driven fridge.
You can easily find residential fridges at reasonable prices well below what a new cooling unit will cost.
Just because you have gotten 20 yrs of use out of it doesn't mean you will get 20 more with a new or rebuilt cooling unit. There have been plenty of folks who have tried replacing the cooling unit only to have them fail quickly and with multiple replacement cooling units eventually tossed in the towel and replaced with new RV fridge or a residential fridge.
Give your old absorbsion friend a hug and put it out to pasture, it is time to move on.
