[pvusers] Thanks for SunFrost comments

["First Last" <dadelcnu@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to all for your SunFrost comments, pro and con

Turns out that SunFrost's numbers are bunk.  Here's a link to what the 
yellow Energy Guide label says:  http://www.cetsolar.com/enguiderf16.htm

The gov't tests (24 hours at 90 degrees F ambient, empty fridge, door 
closed) proved the RF16 to use 350 kWh/yr - basically 1kWh/day, though 
SunFrost says 790 Wh/day at 90.  I'll believe the standardized test, thanks. 
  All that for $2700 (before the stupid bottom cabinet.  So call it $3000.

The Whirlpool ET5WSEXKQ is rated at 372 kWh/yr - basically 1kWh/day.  All 
that for $469 list.  Same interior volume as the RF16, too. 
http://www.energystar.gov/products/printspecs.asp?atype=RF&model=ET5WSE*K*0*

Whirlpool gets my dough.

That's even better than the ConServ Eco-Fridge at 1.5kWh/day at 90 degrees 
F!  http://www.conservrefrigerators.com/conserv.html

SunFrost has a place in history, no doubt, and they got the regular suspects 
to come up in efficiency.  But they missed the boat on mass production and 
have gone the way of Betamax.  Sayonara!



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