Residential fridge install

[Spartacus]

Yeah, we have a 12V fridge and coming from the 2-way fridge I want go back.

 

[Jason-Texas]

What vender did you buy your 12 volt from and what model? The only ones I can find are at Recpro and Camping World.

 

[goducks14]

What vender did you buy your 12 volt from and what model? The only ones I can find are at Recpro and Camping World.

Amazon has a

Dometic DMC 4101​

For $999.

 

[COGrandDes]

We have the Furrion 12v 16 cu ft fridge in our new Reflection and absolutely love it. I was over the propane fridges and their inconsistencies. Works great, is quiet, and cools very well. We have upgraded our batteries and added solar and have plenty of power now for all our boondocking excursions.

 

[huntindog]

I removed my 2 way fridge due to inconsistent temps in the refer section and installed a 10.0 cu ft dorm style fridge.
the issue I’m having is the freezer section is cold @1-5 deg which is good, but can’t seem to get the fridge section colder than about 40 degrees. If I take the fridge out of the rv cabinet the refer section goes down to 35 degrees. So the issue to me seems to be a venting problem the refer can’t dissipate the heat while in the cabinet.

It seems the newer refrigerators have the coils running inside the walls of the fridge instead of the traditional fan cooled coils, probably for energy efficiency I suppose but if the fridge is in a cabinet it has trouble cooling properly.
Have others also had this issue?
Thanks,

It is not for effiecency,
It is so there are no coils that need to be vacumed periodically.
It ia a great design for a residence...Not so much for an RV.
When I was looking for my first RV, I viewed a ton of used TTs. Many of them no longer had the propane fridge. When I saw that, I was thru looking at it. That makes it useless for boondocking. Propane fridges have come a long ways since the 70s. The 2118 in my present Momentum performs better than the fridge in my house.

 

[Jason-Texas]

It is not for effiecency,
It is so there are no coils that need to be vacumed periodically.
It ia a great design for a residence...Not so much for an RV.
When I was looking for my first RV, I viewed a ton of used TTs. Many of them no longer had the propane fridge. When I saw that, I was thru looking at it. That makes it useless for boondocking. Propane fridges have come a long ways since the 70s. The 2118 in my present Momentum performs better than the fridge in my house.

I live in Texas and my propane/electric Dometic can’t keep up once the temps are above 85 or if the fridge slide faces west. I just don’t trust it anymore. We boondock some but not enough to keep this POS frig. I am currently looking at replacing it with a residential.

 

[Chaps2018]

One word of caution on buying stuff from “unapproved” distributors like Amazon. I had trouble with a fairly expensive Lippert part(Amazon had the best price by far).

I contacted Lippert for warranty help and they denied any warranty since it was not purchased from an approved distributor.

Good learning experience as I was getting ready to spend $4k on Ground Control 3 Autoleveling system which was much cheaper on Amazon but I bit the bullet and bought from Etrailer what was an approved source per Lippert’s website.

I could easily see the same thing happening with Dometic.

 

[Chaps2018]

I live in Texas and my propane/electric Dometic can’t keep up once the temps are above 85 or if the fridge slide faces west. I just don’t trust it anymore. We boondock some but not enough to keep this POS frig. I am currently looking at replacing it with a residential.

 

[Chaps2018]

Same issue here. I made a “shade” for the fridge wall that keeps that western sun off the fridge. Made from Ripstop nylon and pvc pipe. Collapses into a small bundle and easily assembles.

 

[Jason-Texas]

I posted earlier in this thread that I would follow up with my estimate for residential frig install. Sticker shock to say the least.

$7095 plus $1500 refrigerator. Itemized: Epoch 460 Ah battery, Multiplus Compact 12/2000/80-50 120V inverter/charger, remove old frig, install new, all wiring, as my trailer does not have inverter/ charger, 2019 model 337.

Labor at $169/hour, labor $3941, parts $2955, plus taxes,and I buy frig at $1500. Total $8795. I think I will pass. I told them if they could take $1500 off I would consider. They factored 22 hours labor.

 

[Sportzfann]

Jason can you install some of these items on your own?
You could probably reduce the items you install, and still run the fridge.
Start off with a new converter charger, that has a lithium setting, install your lifpo batteries. And your fridge. Come back later and install the multiplus and some solar and complete this work in stages.

I can’t stomach the charges for the installation costs, when I can install myself, on top of that, the quality of the installation is sometimes really poor.

 

[Jason-Texas]

Jason can you install some of these items on your own?
You could probably reduce the items you install, and still run the fridge.
Start off with a new converter charger, that has a lithium setting, install your lifpo batteries. And your fridge. Come back later and install the multiplus and some solar and complete this work in stages.

I can’t stomach the charges for the installation costs, when I can install myself, on top of that, the quality of the installation is sometimes really poor.

Don’t think I haven’t been thinking of doing part of it myself. I have some carpentry skill’s & equipment, so I could remove old frig and install new one, however, I can’t do any electrical and the other problem is disposing of the old frig.

Not sure I want to spend $9k on a six year rv either.

 

[poohbear]

Someone posted awhile back that JC's would come do 3 conversions to 12 or 120volts . I offered my place as I have 2 extra RV hookups and still would. I could do the actual conversions/residental replacement & electrical myself with some help as I'm now officially an old geezer. I'm north of Tyler