On another thread I mentioned that we would probably replace the standard RV refrigerator with a residential unit when/if the RV one died. One person was horrified that I would even think of such a thing. Since that is quite common with other RV's, why wouldn't it be a good idea for an Airstream? I understand that going to a 120 V refrigerator means that on travel days it must either go without power OR run on an inverter since it can't run on propane.
We don't do much boondocking (in fact, we haven't done any yet). There are far too many stories of coaches being destroyed by fires that started in/near an RV refrigerator to make me feel comfortable. I understand that people have 20-year-old Dometic or Norcold units that still work just fine, but people with 2-year-old units have neither the refrigerator nor the coach it was in due to fires.
Is the issue a battery that can't run the refrigerator for a few hours? Can that be solved by a larger battery? Pure sine wave inverters aren't cheap, but are common, and they can be used to run a computer as well as a refrigerator.
FWIW, we replaced the old Dometic side-by-side in our Foretravel with a residential unit. We have at least as much refrigerator and freezer space as the old one had AND space for a broom closet too. The new sine wave inverter is mounted in the same place as the old square wave one was, and is about 1/3 the size and half the weight.
So, is replacing a dead RV refrigerator in an Airstream with a residential unit a bad idea?
We don't do much boondocking (in fact, we haven't done any yet). There are far too many stories of coaches being destroyed by fires that started in/near an RV refrigerator to make me feel comfortable. I understand that people have 20-year-old Dometic or Norcold units that still work just fine, but people with 2-year-old units have neither the refrigerator nor the coach it was in due to fires.
Is the issue a battery that can't run the refrigerator for a few hours? Can that be solved by a larger battery? Pure sine wave inverters aren't cheap, but are common, and they can be used to run a computer as well as a refrigerator.
FWIW, we replaced the old Dometic side-by-side in our Foretravel with a residential unit. We have at least as much refrigerator and freezer space as the old one had AND space for a broom closet too. The new sine wave inverter is mounted in the same place as the old square wave one was, and is about 1/3 the size and half the weight.
So, is replacing a dead RV refrigerator in an Airstream with a residential unit a bad idea?
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