Difference in Solitude 310GK and GK-R

[Pepper61]

We are planning to purchase a Solitude 310 and am wondering the difference in the GK and GK-R. I’m assuming the “R” is for residential and have noticed that the GK-R models have residential refrigerators, but are there other differences? Thanks.

[Calbar]

We are planning to purchase a Solitude 310 and am wondering the difference in the GK and GK-R. I’m assuming the “R” is for residential and have noticed that the GK-R models have residential refrigerators, but are there other differences? Thanks.

My understanding is that the use of the residential 120V refrigerator in place of the absorption refrigerator is the only difference.

Rob

[bertschb]

We are planning to purchase a Solitude 310 and am wondering the difference in the GK and GK-R.

Welcome to the forum! The Solitude 310GK-R has a residential fridge and a 1,000W inverter (to run the fridge on battery power). That's the only difference.

[Pepper61]

Thank you very much for your reply. Have you had any experience dry camping with the residential refrigerator? We enjoy dry camping and would like to be able to dry camp 1-2 weeks at the time.

[bertschb]

Thank you very much for your reply. Have you had any experience dry camping with the residential refrigerator? We enjoy dry camping and would like to be able to dry camp 1-2 weeks at the time.

If you plan to dry camp for 1-2 weeks at a time with a residential fridge, you will either need a large battery bank with a solar system to charge the batteries or a generator. We love our residential fridge enough that if we planned to boondock a lot, I'd add a serious solar system and more batteries. Most people wouldn't go to that expense and choose the RV fridge. It's more convenient for dry camping and there is no additional expense.

[Pepper61]

Thanks again for your input. We are planning to get the factory solar panel and inverter system and the Onan generator. Sounds like we may need some additional batteries also if we go with the residential refrigerator.

[Second Chance]

Thank you very much for your reply. Have you had any experience dry camping with the residential refrigerator? We enjoy dry camping and would like to be able to dry camp 1-2 weeks at the time.

Welcome to the forum. @Calbar and @bertschb have answered your question about the "R'" so I'll just throw in a couple of forum hints... When replying to a particular post, you can use "Reply With Quote" (next to Quote) as I have done here. That way everyone will know exactly to whom you are replying and that person will get a notification. You can also tag folks with the "@" symbol and their user name - as I have done here with Rob and Brian's user names. They will also get a notification that they've been mentioned. You'll get used to it.

We've been full-time in our 310GK-R since the end of February (4-1/2 years prior to that in a Reflection 337RLS). We are very happy with the 310. If you order one, I would recommend dual pane windows, as well... I think Brian would agree.

Rob

[Pepper61]

Welcome to the forum. @Calbar and @bertschb have answered your question about the "R'" so I'll just throw in a couple of forum hints... When replying to a particular post, you can use "Reply With Quote" (next to Quote) as I have done here. That way everyone will know exactly to whom you are replying and that person will get a notification. You can also tag folks with the "@" symbol and their user name - as I have done here with Rob and Brian's user names. They will also get a notification that they've been mentioned. You'll get used to it.

We've been full-time in our 310GK-R since the end of February (4-1/2 years prior to that in a Reflection 337RLS). We are very happy with the 310. If you order one, I would recommend dual pane windows, as well... I think Brian would agree.

Rob

Thanks for the forum hints and recommendation. I’m sure I’ll get used to posting on the forum with a little experience!

[LanerC]

We have a 2021 310gk-R since late june of 2020. We also got the 300 watt solar package with the upgrade of 2000 watt inverter which power the 110 volt receptacles. I would very much advise to get that package. We started with the 2 AGM batteries ratted at 75ah each which even with the solar helping for 4 to 6 hrs a day the refer didnt have enough power to run the 2nd night. We were of course using normal power stuff like lights and water pump, some furnace in the evening. When the voltage gets to low an alarm will sound (in the middle of the nite) until you turn off the inverter, in the basement. Switching to lithium batteries I believe will go a long way to solve this. search this forum for batteries or converters. Other than that we love the refer and would get it again. Cant wait to try these batteries, at least 2 maybe 3. BUT they are expensive at first, but pay for themselves over time.

[SolarPoweredRV]

Thank you very much for your reply. Have you had any experience dry camping with the residential refrigerator? We enjoy dry camping and would like to be able to dry camp 1-2 weeks at the time.

We have the 310-GK and we really like the refrigerator in our coach. We have had no problem with keeping the Absorption refrigerator cold enough to protect our food, even here in Florida.

Granted, you may not get Rock-Hard Ice Cream from the freezer, but you will be able to keep your food cold enough and your frozen foods frozen with the Propane refrigerator.

By-the-way, I don't like Rock-Hard Ice Cream!

If you like Boondocking, and you choose the Residential Refrigerator option, you should plan for a robust Solar setup (1,200 Watts or more) with at least 400 to 500 ah of Lithium Batteries. Otherwise, you will be running your Generator for several hours every day.

PS: The reason we have the Propane Fridge and our robust Solar system is because we like to Boondock, actually we prefer Boondocking.