04-18-2014, 02:55 AM
Still debating Solar. My power bill fluctuates between 50-70 a month. Hard to reason sometimes solar. I have a friend with a propane fridge and he says it eats up 1 4 gallon tank every 3 weeks. Sounds like one would just be switching paying helco for a propane bill. Granted I cook and shower with propane (why power bills is so low) but even at that, we can eek out about 4-5 months on the shower and 2 months on cooking. So every six months we use about 20 gallons or 80 bucks worth of propane. Around 12 bucks a month for gas.
Because our fridge is / was the most efficient I could find at HomeDepot/Sears @ 1KW a day. It's the biggest power consumption we have. I run around 3KW a day and the fridge alone is sucking down a third of that. The rest is cooking with a rice maker, Vitamix Blender makes the lights dim. I sometimes wonder if a solar setup would handle making smoothies? I'm not sure how are washer and microwave would work out on solar. I hear so many things that can't be run off of solar. But point I was originally trying to make was getting back to the refrigerator, one might consider looking at stone cold here in Hawaiian Beaches that sells a smaller fridge that 10CUFT (doable) that according to him says will run at half of my fridge .5 KW or just 500 watts per day.
Might be worth it vs a propane fridge. Unless there is something wrong with my friends fridge and you can get a 4 gallon tank to last 2-3 months?
Because our fridge is / was the most efficient I could find at HomeDepot/Sears @ 1KW a day. It's the biggest power consumption we have. I run around 3KW a day and the fridge alone is sucking down a third of that. The rest is cooking with a rice maker, Vitamix Blender makes the lights dim. I sometimes wonder if a solar setup would handle making smoothies? I'm not sure how are washer and microwave would work out on solar. I hear so many things that can't be run off of solar. But point I was originally trying to make was getting back to the refrigerator, one might consider looking at stone cold here in Hawaiian Beaches that sells a smaller fridge that 10CUFT (doable) that according to him says will run at half of my fridge .5 KW or just 500 watts per day.
Might be worth it vs a propane fridge. Unless there is something wrong with my friends fridge and you can get a 4 gallon tank to last 2-3 months?