Refrigerators and life styles

[randydupree2000]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Ralph L. Fullenwider"
wrote:
>
> Good evening to everyone:
>
> This refrigerator thread has been interesting. Points and counter
points
> offered by several members along with web sites to back up each
others
> opinion. Well done by all parties in the aproach.
>
> Bottom line, forgetting ohms law and logic applied by calculators
to the
> tables, it really comes down to this as I see it. The question is;
What are
> my needs for my lifestyle? And how do I go about filling that need.
>
> True, the RV refrigerator came out to fulfill a need and
application and
> still does for that matter. Then we talk about the basic "home
style"
> refrigerator and it's compatibility with travels. Lets remember
that most
> of us has had the ice maker in the Coaches since day one, and that
is a
> compressor run unit. No different, save for size, from the typical
home
> unit. And they still function very well.
>
> So in installing the home type compressor refrigerator only means
that if
> you want to dry camp, you need to run the gen set or have enough
amperage
> to run the proper size inverter. The technology is certainly more
advance
> these days than that of yesteryear. Where as the time honored RV
ammonia,
> gravity fed units lend themselves to the original technology
accepted in
> the RV industry as being standard.
>
> That said it still comes down to " the life style you have" and
nothing more.
>
> So to heck with point and counter point, both will work, that has
been
> proven. You just have to design the change over to fit your needs
and what
> it takes to run it.
>
> All of this, of course, is just an opinion, and no web sites to
back it up,
> nor will there be.
>
> Ding!!! round 2
>
> Safe travels,
>
> Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
> Ralph's RV Solutions, Duncan, Oklahoma
> http://home.swbell.net/rlf47/index.htm
> i have an amana side x side house refer in my coach,it was
installed by BB in 1993.150,000 miles on the coach,and all is well
with the refer.lots of big boats have a house type refer in them,and
they work fine as well.sea going boats too,not lake boats. i like my
house refer,and would never go back to a rv type. randy dupree 93wb
house type fridge,in florida