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Re: Residential Fridge

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Yahoo Message Number: 117537
Refir circut moved to inverter side in panel.
Replaced Xantrex inverter with pure sine wave Magnum 3000 watt.
Installed .6 Lifeline 6 volt batteries
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Re: Residential Fridge

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Yahoo Message Number: 117539
There are two sections in the breaker panel, one section is shore power only and the other section is fed by both the inverter and shore power. If you want to power the fridge with the inverter you will have to move the feed to the inverter section of the panel. Be sure to move both the hot and neutral wires for things to work correctly. The microwave is in the inverter section, as an aid to finding the correct spot.

The fridge came through the door (actually both did) with relative ease with the doors removed. It took a little carpentry work to make the fridge fit the hole. I also sealed
of the vents to the outside needed by the LPG powered Norcold.

Dale Collier
2005 Inspire 51477
Dale Collier
05 Inspire 53477

Re: Residential Fridge

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I've been following this thread for some time now and felt I needed to comment. I changed our 2002 Magna Norcold fridge to a Haier apartment size fridge about 2 1/2 years ago. Everything worked well until this past fall the fridge failed. I was laid up with healing injuries and my son found all the food spoiled and smelly. So I installed a new fridge this spring. I had ordered a new inverter last fall but shortly thereafter was in a tragic MVA where we were hit head on and my wife died as a result. So this spring I did some research and discovered that many newer fridges have electronic controls and/or variable speed compressors which do not like modified sine inverters. (Which I had bought a pure sine wave for the fridge and a planned cpap machine). So, my suggestion is to do your research before converting and make sure you have the proper inverter to run your new residential fridge. While mine worked well while it worked, it did not last very long and ended up ruined. Have good travels, Rick (now traveling alone)

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Thank you Rick for all the valuable information, please accept my heartfelt sorrow for you loss and hope your healing well
and continue . I am taking all the CCers advice and comments to insure a good installation, my best to you and thanks

Jerry
2004 Inspire 51012



Re: Residential Fridge

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Yahoo Message Number: 117546
We used the Whirlpool on the advice of a friend that owned an appliance service business that services them all. His comments were, "the Samsung is very nice and are spot on with temperature, but they can be subject to trouble with voltage fluctuations and parts are more expensive and not always readily available - I would use a Whirlpool."

/Mike St John
Former 2005 Magna owner

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The Whirlpool linked above and the Samsung units are both DC powered units. Thus, they don't care about the waveform shape of the inverter, the power is rectified back into 12 VDC before being used by the fridge. This is not true for many refrigerators that are AC powered units, which will not play nicely with the original MSW inverters.

Dale Collier
2005 Inspire 51477
Dale Collier
05 Inspire 53477

Re: Residential Fridge

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My seventeen-year-old Dometic 1492 is still silently purring along, hard ice cream and 37 in the fridge, but who knows... As I read all these conversion discussions where you discuss rewiring the AC through the inverter, I have a question: My Magna has two electrical outlets the fridge; one for the fridge heaters and the other for the ice maker. The ice maker outlet comes off of the inverter. If I were to put a residential fridge in, why not just plug it into that outlet for the ice maker? Why all of this discussion of rewiring at the breaker panel? Or don't most of your CC's have a similar setup with the AC outlets for the fridge and ice maker?

Rich 2002
 

Re: Residential Fridge

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Exactly Rich, the Inspires don't have the outlet with both power sources. I'm not sure which models do and don't.

Dale
Dale Collier
05 Inspire 53477