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Originally Posted by Chance
The cooling systems are completely different. It’s not even like comparing apples and oranges, because those are at least both fruit and about the same size. 
What you had was an absorption refrigerator that works from heat. That heat could come from a propane flame, or an electric resistance to produce heat. It’s extremely inefficient to cool a fridge using 12V battery to produce heat. It’s borderline stupid if we’re honest with possible exception of using alternator current while driving to save propane.
The new 12V refrigerators do NOT use heat to power an absorption cooling cycle at all, but rather use a compressor just like a home residential refrigerator. The only difference is that the compressor motor is 12V direct current instead of 115V alternating current. You can’t compare at all to your previous fridge in any meaningful way.
I’m not saying these will be flawless (only time will tell) but you can’t go by what old absorption refrigerators did in the past. Quality 12VDC fridges in van campers have been very successful for years. I don’t know which brand Thor is using. |
Thanks. I understand. I have only had absorption RV refrigerators and have no experience with the new compressor ones. The compressor refrigerators also apparently do not have the leveling issues that the absorption ones do. All the compressor RV refrigerators I have looked at come in either just 12v or both 115 and 12v and the two way are less than $100 different. Probably not a big deal.
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