Looking for an energy efficient fridge

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Originally posted by Dave Smith

Like Maud, we got an Energy Star model from Sears. It's been running nearly six years

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That's excellent! I forgot to mention this in my previous post. Something you guys might want to look into (esp, for folks running on solar)... Swap that stock refrigerator light out with an LED light!

Normal bulbs are like 80 Watts!!! Yikes! Led bulbs are 1Watt and produce almost the same output!

Ok, so big deal right? The light lucky to be on maybe 5 minutes a day tops. But that's not the end of the story! That thing is an 80 Watt HEATER! Yes! A HEATER! Since most of that bulb is putting out heat not light energy your basically making your fridge RUN over time ... So you can gain a WHOLE lot by swapping out those old crappy bulbs. Who the heck puts warm food in a fridge? Only crazy people. So swap to an LED that produces ZERO heat and only burn 1 Watt.

I do this on all my fridges and save another 30+Kw per year. Hey power is power... Why waste it? Don't have LED bulbs just yank the bulb out if not needed.

Cheers!