Originally posted by garyd
Sorry meant to be damford compressor
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I think you mean Danfoss aka Secop 12/24Vdc compressors. The Danfoss units have been in use now for going on 40 years and have a good record for reliability. I don't know a specific unit that will fit but you can check out the Dometic CRX product line, I think they use the Secop compressor. You could also consider keeping the existing fridge box and retrofitting a Danfoss/Secop based refrigeration system in it. Kits for that are readily available for the cruising sailboat market, where propane use is considered unsafe.
By mentioning the Danfoss system I assume that you intend to use the fridge boon docking. Otherwise you could just get a bar/dorm fridge and be done with it. One thing to know about the dc vapor compression fridges is that you will need a pretty healthy dc power system, probably an additional couple hundred amp hours of battery and couple hundred watts of solar, or plan on running the converter from a generator to recharge the battery quite a bit.
Another thing, the absorption fridges are very capacity limited, if you put a lot of warm stuff in there the fridge won't stay cold. Not so with the vapor compression fridges, if you overload those they will run continuously trying to pull down the fridge temp, so things will get cold faster but at the expense of much increased electricity demand. There ain't no free lunch in other words.