Arrives before Christmas 
This fridge adapts to your weekend plans. Load up road trip essentials, shift the shelves to make space for the good stuff, and fine-tune the temp with digital controls. Built-in saver protects your RV battery so you can explore without interruption.
When you want to stay off the grid longer, this fridge makes it easy. The built-in battery saver jumps in before your fridge can kill your RV battery. If your power dips to 10.4 volts, the fridge just takes a break until you're charged back up. If you notice a little frost creeping in, just run a quick manual defrost to save even more battery life. And when you're winding down at the end of the day, night mode keeps things quiet and uses less energy while you sleep.
Whether you're chilling big bottles of lemonade, squeezing in a carton of eggs, or finding space for tonight's dinner fixings, the adjustable shelves and bins move around so everything fits just right. Once you've packed it full, those sturdy door locks keep your stash safe when the road gets bumpy. Digital control panel lets you independently set the perfect temperature for fresh fruit up top and frozen burger patties down below, so you're always ready for whatever's on the menu.
Note: Install the refrigerator in a convenient location away from extreme heat and cold. The refrigerator has a built-in vent at the top and clearance at the bottom. Make sure that the flow of air through these vents are not blocked in any way.
Alternate Instructions
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Hello neighbors and friends, Steve here with etrailer.com. Thanks for joining me folks while we look at our Norcold RV refrigerator and freezer combo with 9.7 cubic foot of space, runs on 12 volt power, and it has a nice elegant stainless steel finish, and you can get it in a right or left hand opening option. So folks, these do come from the factory, actually boxed up left and right. However, you can still reverse that door, so don't worry if you end up ordering incorrectly, you can simply take the time needed to swap the hinges and the hardware and everything to left versus right or vice versa. Now that being said, try your best to get the right size, the right opening rather, the first time. I'll put the line of numbers on the screen for you.
And before I dive in deep to some of the other stuff, I wanna throw another image up. The top right hand, that's gonna be a picture of what the plug looks like. It should marry up to what you currently have in your RV or camper. And that being said, I highly recommend you making sure that matches up. If it does not, you technically, I guess, could cut that plug off.
That is not recommended. Again, not recommended. However, there are two power ground wires there. The top left photo is the back bottom of it. Again, due to limited space, I'll throw these images up so you can see them better now.
You got a drip pan there, and it's gonna catch condensation and all that kind of stuff. You got the compressor. Bottom left hand corner, that's an image of the light. I tried to wire it up here for you. Again, the lighting and everything, the angles, I just couldn't really see the brightness too well.
Again, it's 12 volts, use an LED. It is bright in the dark. That's pretty much when you would need to have that light on anyways. And then the bottom right photo there, image is just a closeup of the panel on the top of the fridge. You got power, and then you got plus or minus to move the temp stripper down. The next ones over are your freezer. Hit the freezer button to adjust the freezer temp, and then hit the fridge button to adjust the fridge temp. And then you get the moon shape there on the top right of that bottom image, and that's for nighttime use. So again, a lot of information I just went over. I apologize if I went too quick, but basically a nice fridge. Again, I'm gonna spin this around real quick so you can kinda see all sides. Obviously, it's gonna fit inside of a cutout. That cutout dimension is gonna be 24 inches deep. The width of the cutout is 23 1/2 inches wide and 59 7/8 inches tall overall. Now that being said, again, that's the cutout dimensions. That's the back view there. Again, I showed you an image a few minutes ago of the closeup of that drip pan. As far as overall dimensions, if you we inchesre looking at the front, that same dimension, that 59 7/8 inches tall, because that cutout needs to have this included. That way this is pushed back in place and you still have access to that panel. Now the difference is gonna be that the width here is gonna be the same or a bigger 26 7/8 inches and that overall width on the front facing is 23 1/4 inches wide. So about a 1/4 inch difference than the cutout itself. So again, those are the measurements you're gonna need. The door thickness is gonna be 2 7/8 inches thick. Let's go ahead and open up the freezer door here. And as you can see, we got our meal up in there, staying nice and chill. If you look here, you've got a built-in door holder. You can put some stuff in there as well. So that's a freezer, lots of space in there. And the fridge, same thing. We can put some drinks and stuff in there. We can have a nice little space. You got drawers and stuff on the bottom. I'm gonna zoom in so I can kinda show you a couple other things real quick. So again, you got space on the doors here and everything, obviously. You got your holders for the doors. But I wanna point out on the inside here, and I'm gonna use my tape measure as a pointing apparatus, if you will. So you got your sandwich up there, but down here, you can kinda see it slopes, right So it slopes down to the center, right about in there. That is perfectly normal. When I first opened this, I thought it was kind of a defect or something, but then looking at it more, those slopes on the left and right-hand side, there's a hole down there, and that's a drain hole. So that's gonna catch any condensation and any of that kind of stuff. Maybe you're defrosting everything. That's gonna catch all that into that back pan in the back of the fridge/freezer combo here. So again, you got two nice drawers. You got shelving. The shelving is adjustable. You do, however, have to take off a cap, and then they are screwed in place. So it's a little bit of effort required to move the shelving, but that's what you want. So they are screwed in place. That's so they can't be shifting around when you're driving down the road and going from place to place. So it's a perfectly normal thing with these kind of fridges and freezers. Now, the digital panel, I showed you a close-up earlier on that image. Again, you can adjust all those things. Five levels of adjustment as far as one through five on the coldness on the fridge and freezer. You have a nighttime option. That was that moon button I was telling you about earlier and showing you. The nighttime option is gonna reduce energy. It's gonna reduce noise, use while you're sleeping, and go into almost like a sleep mode, if you will. It has a low-voltage protection built-in system. So it's gonna stop the fridge from completely draining the RV's battery if it senses it's pulling too much voltage. And it's gonna automatically turn off when your battery reaches 10.4 volts of power. Now, it is a manual defrost. That's gonna conserve your battery life. So you're gonna want to manually defrost it, open it up after you shut everything off, let it manually defrost, scrape off any kind of freeze or frost, those kind of things if it's built up. Now, the doors do lock like they are now to prevent opening and swinging while in transport. And again, these are totally reversible. I don't know how well you can see it, but you can basically take these covers off, swap the doors, left to right or vice versa as needed. And there's a pin up top right now. It's on this side because it's pivoting this way. And just like your regular fridge and freezers in your home, you can swap those over left to right. It's not a big deal. Just keep that in mind whenever you're ordering. Now, again, it's a simple installation. You get that plug in on top. That should marry up with the plug in your RV or camper. And then you slide it in place. And it's pretty simple, not much to it. Now, in night mode, it's gonna draw 6.2 amps. It's gonna draw 8.3 amps in its standard daytime mode. And the rated current for this is 15 amps max. The whole thing is about 133 pounds. So make sure you get someone to help you when you're installing it and putting it in place. And also when you're removing the old one. Well, folks, I think that's gonna wrap it up. Just a quick look today. I do wanna throw up the left and right part numbers one last time for you. Again, make sure you're ordering the correct one the first time so you don't have to worry about swapping the doors. But again, if for some reason you're ordering correctly, it's fine, you can swap those doors as needed. Folks, I'm Steven. Thanks so much for your time. Have it safe out there.
Easy to install, works great.
Works so far , ask me in 2 years
Installation was easy and both freezer and fridge are working perfectly.
I am very impressed about doing business with etrailer.com. There were 4-RV 12 volt refrigerators in stock when I ordered 1. Delivery to the east coast via freight arrived on schedule. I installed it in my RV and unfortunately it was a defective refrig. The same day I contacted my salesperson with the bummer news I received notification that a replacement refrig was in the system for shipment. Can’t get any better than that!! The 2nd refrig from etrailer.com works as it should.
Also, prior to ordering I reviewed the informational video for this refrigerator and learned enough to make me understand I was prepared to install it. The size, the door swing, the electrical connection, all the important information has been provided by the video, huge amount of work, thank you
Excellent support, service and quick delivery. Already installed replacing a 17 year old Norcold propane/electric refrigerator with the 2 additional cubic feet 12 volt unit. Works well and cools down much faster.
I have ordered 2 12dc fridges from E-trailer, one for my last Rv and now this one for my new Rv. The first one worked perfectly, and so far this new one is working as designed and cooled nicely. I have had great satisfaction from these Rv fridges and from E-trailer.
A perfect replacement for a dead Furrion FCR10DCDTA. No rough opening modification necessary. I did use plastic drywall corner protectors painted flat black to dress up the edges of the rough opening. Overall the Norcold brand seems to be a great choice.
Easy install, works as advertised. At desired temperature in 4 hours. Hopefully, makes it past the warranty.
Great choice for a 12v compressor RV refrigerator. I chose this option to replace a 2009 Dometic RM3962 120v/propane model. RV is a 2010 Glendale Titanium 34E39RE and was installed in the kitchen slide. This refrigerator was the largest replacement for the old Dometic I could find and has a similar door latch for travel. Operation is very quiet, good interior light on the top of the refrigerator compartment.
The 12 wiring in the slide was only #14 AWG, and I chose to make a new home run directly from the battery to avoid voltage drop. Highest current I have measured so far is about 5a, so the old wire would have been fine. My reason for going to a compressor type is to obtain better performance in summer conditions and during travel. A test run of 10 hours at a maximum ambient air of 85 degrees F on the old house batteries was fine, so we are set for summer travel.
The cabinet face frame was only 3/4" wide, and the 3 screw locations on either side of the refrigerator frame required backing up the cabinet frame to provide a landing for the screws. On one side I milled a piece of lumber to narrow the width 1//2" while also providing the screw landing. Only one of the 6 screw pockets was drilled through and required drilling the plastic on the others. I had to make a 3" panel to block off the space over the refrigerator. Instructions call for blocking outside ventilation, so I used aluminum duct tape to cover the inside of the louvers in the access panels. Refrigerator ventilation is under the bottom, a fan over the compressor directs air up the back, the warm air flows out through a path built into the top control panel.
I found the door latch pins could deflect the plastic bracket they seat into allowing the doors to open with a bit of a tug, so I backed that bracket up with a small piece of wood mounted to the cabinet frame.
A note on shipping - Estes delivered the unit with the entire bottom of the corrugated shipping box worn away - no pallet - box bottom flaps remaining were obviously wet. only one foot was slightly bent so I accepted it after looking at the bottom of the unit. This should be shipped with something to protect the bottom of the carton. On the other hand, all we had to do was lift the box and packing up off the refrigerator so "unpacking" was super easy! Even a piece of thin plywood taped to the bottom of the carton would suffice. Seeing the thing "walked" out of the truck on the refrigerator feet was unsettling!
We replaced our original Norcold N1095 in our 2008 Safari Simba with the NC56FR, and it could not have been a better fit — it is an exact height match and has only a hair of clearance on the sides. I reinforced the side trim with oak for solid mounting and secured it using the side screws provided.
I run the NC56FR on shore power through a Mean Well HLG-320H-12 power supply. This was my choice after research for efficiency, stable output, and long-term reliability in a 24/7 installation. etrailer may recommend other power supplies that work well, but this setup perfectly matched my needs.
I sealed the original exterior fridge vents with 1” foam board for better insulation while keeping access to the outlet. The fridge runs quietly, cools quickly, and uses less energy than my old absorption unit. Later this year, we’ll add 6 AWG wiring from my house batteries for a boondocking-ready upgrade, but our rig runs almost exclusively on shore power at this time.
Thanks to etrailer — they had the NC56FR in stock, shipped it quickly, and it arrived in perfect condition. This was one of our smoothest RV upgrades, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend both the fridge and etrailer’s service.
So far so good, just finished installing the new 12 volt Refrigerator freezer in my fifth wheel, it seems to be functioning very well. I have a solar panel with four batteries and it appears to be creating enough power to run the fridge with no problem. I will have to test it on a three or four day trip to get a full feeling of how it will function while dry Camping. With shore power, I see no problem at all and it's very nice.!
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