09-30-2008, 01:58 AM
Dick,
Have you thought about using two small chest freezers? (electric)
What you do is add a thermostat to one of them to make it a refrigerator instead of a freezer. The nature of it being a top open instead of a front open helps maintain it's temp 1000 times better than a front open.
It would reduce power consumption to aprox. 0.1 kWH / day. It works only about 2 minutes per hour. At all other times it is perfectly quiet and consumes no power whatsoever.
The other chest freezer just use normally. and it'll consume less than 300kwh/year. Maybe less since your average temps in Hawaii will be around 72 deg.
You could also add some extra insulation and silver Mylar heat shield to boost the efficiency.
And the initial cost is cheap as dirt. Sears puts these puppies on sale for 195 bux.
This is what I’m gonna do.
Have you thought about using two small chest freezers? (electric)
What you do is add a thermostat to one of them to make it a refrigerator instead of a freezer. The nature of it being a top open instead of a front open helps maintain it's temp 1000 times better than a front open.
It would reduce power consumption to aprox. 0.1 kWH / day. It works only about 2 minutes per hour. At all other times it is perfectly quiet and consumes no power whatsoever.
The other chest freezer just use normally. and it'll consume less than 300kwh/year. Maybe less since your average temps in Hawaii will be around 72 deg.
You could also add some extra insulation and silver Mylar heat shield to boost the efficiency.
And the initial cost is cheap as dirt. Sears puts these puppies on sale for 195 bux.
This is what I’m gonna do.