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DENNIS
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Just noticed that American Standard bathroom fixtures are down here too.
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larryC
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Maspacifico
I am on solar, and I have a sears 18cf refer. During the winter months it uses 1kw of power in 24 hours. In the summer months when ambient temps are
in the high 90's it uses 3kw a day. This is according to a killawatt meter. I was really surprised that a 20 to 30 degree rise in ambient would cause
the refer to triple its power consumption. So what is happening to you is pretty much what I am experiencing. Darn it!
Larry
PS my solar system can keep up but just barely.
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maspacifico
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Thanks Larry, it's been pretty cool lately but I've been monitoring the fridge since I posted and it's pulling about 1.5KW a day averaged over a
month. The fridge does a weird start up cycle that draws a lot, and it doesn't seem to matter that the thing has been running for a month or an hour.
If I unplug it and plug it right back into the kill a watt, it will go through the high draw start up thing again. Maybe leave your meter on it for a
week and see if is using less than you think? I used to use the Search mode on the inverter but can't with the fridge now.
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Bob and Susan
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i wouldn't use the "search mode" with the inverter
just leave the inverter on all the time
just another thing that could go bad
it's like a lightbulb
it could go out anytime
the fridge...stop opening the door
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
the fridge...stop opening the door |
Right !
Keep your beer in a tub with ice and may as well put your snacks in there too. And maybe your steak.
and then, you can chitcan that whirlpool permanently.
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maspacifico
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Hard to get the beer out without opening the door! The first fridge I got down here made it like I wasn't camping anymore. No more ice chests unless
I'm headed to the beach. Writing this with long pants and a flannel shirt on. What the.....?
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fishabductor
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| Quote: | Originally posted by maspacifico
Hard to get the beer out without opening the door! The first fridge I got down here made it like I wasn't camping anymore. No more ice chests unless
I'm headed to the beach. Writing this with long pants and a flannel shirt on. What the.....? |
It must be cold way up there on the mountain!! I'm in a pair of shorts
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larryC
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Mas
I did put that refer on the Kilawatt for a couple of days and it was the same. I had a beer cooler in my garage that was a Dometic freezer set to its
warmest setting and it kept my drinks at 37-38 degrees, perfect. It died and to buy another was way to expensive. I did some searching on google and
found a way to convert a small chest freezer to a refer. I posted what I did over on the TalkBaja forum here: http://www.talkbaja.com/showthread.php?t=3718
It is a 5cf freezer and only uses .3kw a day. Take a look and see what you think.
Larry
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oladulce
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Whirlpool Resource Saver fridge report
I bought the Whirlpool Resource Saver before we moved down to Baja Sur in anticipation of installing it in our future house. But the permits and
Studies are dragging on and I'm still staring at the mountain of block, waiting to begin construction "any day now". In the meantime, we've been using
a gas fridge .
After a smashed finger and sore back, my husband was really tired of hoisting the tall propane bottles in to the truck and hauling in to
town. Since we currently generate more solar power than we need for this little crackerbox casita, we decided to set up the electric fridge.
Last week we started it up in the garage (empty) and attached the kill-o-watt meter. The high temp during that time was 88-89° and the fridge drew 54
watts/hr (1.3Kw/24).
It's now in the casita and it's much cooler this week- high yesterday was only 79°. The fridge is using 43 watts/hr (1.03 Kw/24 hr). When we calc'd
out our solar, i think we allowed for the fridge to use 65 w/ hr , so all is good!
They call this model the 19 cu ft freezer-on-top (5 cu ft freezer, 13.9 cu ft fridge) G9RXXFMS.
I bought a small chest freezer before we moved too, expecting the once-a-month trips to town or big stock up trips to La Paz would fill up the
Whirlpool freezer. But for just the 2 of us, I think the Whirlpool fridge and freezer might be plenty big enough. Maybe we'll convert the chest
freezer to an energy miser fridge for the guest casita like LarryC and Jesse reported, and be free of the propane fridge all together.
[Edited on 9-9-2010 by oladulce]
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maspacifico
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oladulce...Pretty sure it's the same fridge. I've had my kill a watt meter on it for 79 days now. Average over that period is 61 watts per hour, under
1 1/2 kilowatts a day.....been a bit warmer than 79 degrees here! The fridge has a definite start up cycle that uses much more energy in the first
day, and once you unplug it and plug it in again it goes through that cycle every time. Really hard to use the kill a watt meter unless it's plugged
in for a week!
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