Electricity usage breakdown by appliance - Page 2

RobertSmalls · 09-22-10, 07:26 PM

The ideal solution would be to have your fridge inside the "California cooler". Maybe have a little fan circulating outside air across your condenser coil when it's cooler outside than in the cabinet. If you also super-insulate the cabinet, your fridge might have a sufficiently slow transient response that you can power it down most of the day, and run it mostly at night when the fridge cabinet is relatively cool.

Too bad the layout of my kitchen constrains the fridge to an interior wall.

Daox · 09-23-10, 06:07 AM

Yeah, my fridge is on an interior wall as well.

Another idea is to run ducting to the fridge, cutting holes into it. One feed line and one return line. Then, you just use a fan on the thermostat control during the winter to keep the fridge cold.

09-23-10, 06:07 AM	#12
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09-22-10, 07:26 PM	#11
RobertSmalls Journeyman EcoRenovator Join Date: May 2009 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 344 Thanks: 3 Thanked 17 Times in 15 Posts	The ideal solution would be to have your fridge inside the "California cooler". Maybe have a little fan circulating outside air across your condenser coil when it's cooler outside than in the cabinet. If you also super-insulate the cabinet, your fridge might have a sufficiently slow transient response that you can power it down most of the day, and run it mostly at night when the fridge cabinet is relatively cool. Too bad the layout of my kitchen constrains the fridge to an interior wall.