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Originally Posted by xrated
I'm going to post up a couple of different topics here, so bear with me. After extensive mods and supposed workarounds on the Norcold 2118, I've finally accepted failure for ever getting it to work correctly. The straw that broke the proverbial Camel's back, was our one month trip out west last September and the "pins and needles" feeling of always wondering when the fridge would just give it up and get to the point that we would throw food out from being too warm in the fridge for too long. It never did happen, but the temperature fluctuations that we experienced over that 30 day trip finally drove me over the edge.....mid to upper 40s in the fresh food compartment during the day, and maybe ......maybe dropping down into the mid 30's overnight, but not every time. Freezer spending most of the time in the high teens to mid 20's was not acceptable either. So over the winter months, my plan was to upgrade the battery to a DIY LiFePO, which I did, and take the trailer to JC Refrigeration for the 12VDC Twin Compressor install. The install took them right at 2 hours, and within 4 hours of the unit being up and running, the fresh food compartment was at 31° and the freezer at -5°. Here is a picture or two of the work done....
Twin compressors....one compressor, the larger one of the two keeps the freezer cold. The smaller compressor does the fresh food area. Pictured to the left of the larger compressor is the newly installed Digital Temperature Controller for the freezer section. So now, you can adjust the freezer and the fresh food compartment separately for whatever temperatures that you need or want....
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Thanks for the great photos, I didn't take any during the job.
JC refrigeration also ships the unit Freight by FedEx.
It was $300 extra and we did the work ourselves inside of 5 hours.
By morning temps were actually too cold.
We added their external/internal temp sensors and their Thermister replacement which is adjustable for fine tuning the reefer section.
ALL in ALL it is the ONLY way for the NORCOLD 2118 (Never-Cold) to work properly and without heavy modifications to the coach/rig.
thanks folks