My experience with Amish cooling unit

[tjblocker]

I recently purchased a 3231CK fiver. If came with a huge beautiful fridge which is the Norcold 2118. This beautiful huge stainless fridge had one problem, it doesn't work very well. When outside temps reach 100 the fridge temp would be 45+ and the freezer would be 20+. The cooling unit was grossly undersized, and has been for some time now. It also used a crazy amount of power or 30# propane a week. It's a true power hog.
So I upgraded the cooling unit to one of the JC Refrigeration dual 12 volt units. This unit works quite well. However, there is one issue that anyone doing this should be aware of. The instructions state that it might be necessary to run new 10 awg wire. The factory wire might not be large enough. My installer discovered this when the freezer compressor would not even start and the fridge gave low DC warning. So, he ran 10awg as advised by the company.

I've since checked this with several online wire calculators and find that the 10 awg is no where near large enough. We should have run 4 or 6 awg. This is because my fridge is in a slideout so the new wires had to be run from the front storage all the way aft to enter the slideout cabling entry and then forward again. This allows wires to work with slideout movement. The run was 50ft total.
If I had it to do again I would have chosen the 120 volt unit. If you're fridge is in a slideout, then consider the length of the conductor.

Note that this cooling unit works outstanding. My freezer temps are -4 to 2 degrees and fridge temps are 32-35 with no ice but it is "hurt the teeth" cold.

Hope this helps someone