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10-14-12, 02:35 PM | #11 | |
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I think I have some sanyo curves somewhere. Most fridges here are 134a, I believe. |
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10-14-12, 07:18 PM | #12 |
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You also want to keep your coolant lines as short as possible because that will put more strain and wear on the compressor as well.
I don't think you are going to see a drastic change unless you can fill the area that had the compressor with insulation. |
10-15-12, 09:49 AM | #13 |
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I found a hotspot on the outside lower part of the side of my fridge this morning using an infrared thermometer. It was reading over 100 degrees. Will do some searching of hotspots on the inside later today.
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10-17-12, 10:56 AM | #14 |
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For comparison this is mine: Coils 10 degrees above ambient and compressor 30 degrees above ambient towards the end of the previous defrost that I triggered, which takes about 30 minutes compressor runtime to recover from. So coils were 68 and the compressor was 88. The air exhausting was cooler than the coils and the area behind the refrigerator was pretty much ambient. 58 degrees and it operates at 135 watts towards the end of the run, when it's 70 in the house it pulls 150 watts. Overall much less energy usage when its cooler with both energy usage while running, lower dew point for less frost(probably moving to every other week defrosts), lower cooling load, and faster cooldowns.
Keep those coils clean and fed with cool air once you've got everything mounted up and you're set. |
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