Re: PV: Refrigerator recommendations

[Doug Pratt <doug@realgoods.com>]

You got it about right Kirt.  If (unlike most North Americans) you can get by
with a smaller fridge, then the smaller SunFrost may still be a reasonable
purchase.  While the major manufacturers have put forth a good effort on the
standard size fridges, the smaller units are still pretty miserable.  Those
smaller dorm-size and under-counter units?  They burn about as much energy as a
full-size fridge.  The customers for these fridges, dorm students who don't pay
an electric bill, or hotels that just don't notice a few extra kW, just don't
shop for economy.

-Doug Pratt
Real Goods Technical Editor
http://www.realgoods.com


Nieft / Secola wrote:

> This thread about Sunfrosts being obsolete has been interesting. I
> researched it pretty carefully a couple years ago before buying our RF-12.
> I could find nothing that came as close to the RF-12 for efficiency. It
> seems to me that the mass produced brands have a ways to go before I could
> dump the Sunfrost and its annoyances.
>
> Perhaps compared to a RF-19 you can get close with a brand name, but not an
> RF-12--or am I missing something?
>
> Cheers,
> Kirt
>
> Secola  /\  Nieft
> frisbee@aloha.net
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