RV vs residential refrigerator?
We are on the fence about trading out our 10yr old Dometic for a Whirlpool residential refrigerator. Because of space in our floor plan, it looks like the only choice still made that small... It loo...
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I thought it was about to be mentioned that a res fridge needs to be above 50F to work right, as in you can't keep your stick house beer fridge in the un-heated garage in winter.
In the truck camper, the res fridge we had would not keep proper temps in winter with most of it at outside temps with the back especially open to the weather with the big vent.
The front was inside, where it was warmer. Result was either the freezer would be ok but not the fridge down below or else no freezer, just right temps for the cooler fridge part. Was hard to pick what on the temp dial worked best. Mostly gave up on having a freezer but survived ok for a trip with the fridge part being right.
Have not yet used the 3-way ( only use 2) 7401L in winter, but hope that freezer vs fridge problem will not show up so much while on propane--we'll see!
In a "real" RV -not a TC :) - with a 2-way or so fridge, it is more inside, so with the furnace on, most of res fridge is above 50F so that would not be a problem like what we had I suppose. At least we haven't had any of that in the 5er with the Norcold 2-way on propane.
In the truck camper, the res fridge we had would not keep proper temps in winter with most of it at outside temps with the back especially open to the weather with the big vent.
The front was inside, where it was warmer. Result was either the freezer would be ok but not the fridge down below or else no freezer, just right temps for the cooler fridge part. Was hard to pick what on the temp dial worked best. Mostly gave up on having a freezer but survived ok for a trip with the fridge part being right.
Have not yet used the 3-way ( only use 2) 7401L in winter, but hope that freezer vs fridge problem will not show up so much while on propane--we'll see!
In a "real" RV -not a TC :) - with a 2-way or so fridge, it is more inside, so with the furnace on, most of res fridge is above 50F so that would not be a problem like what we had I suppose. At least we haven't had any of that in the 5er with the Norcold 2-way on propane.
