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bob_b1
Explorer
Nov 04, 2013

The Norcold broke (again) and I am going with a Residential.

My Norcold 682 model has had the cooling unit replaced once, the eyebrow board once, the temp probe once and the ignition module twice. The ignition module is now shot and I refuse to put more good mo...
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bob_b1
Explorer
Nov 11, 2013
Well, I finished the installation. The old fridge really put up a fight upon removal, but the new fridge looks nice.

Unfortunately, The Xantrex 1000-watt XPower Inverter wasn't up to the task of starting the Fridge. Even though it had 2000 watts of surge capacity, I still had an overload situation. I can run the generator to start the fridge, shut off the generator and the inverter will continue running it. The next time it cycles, will overload the inverter.

My next step is to upgrade to the 3000-watt version.

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