Maytag, bottom freezers [RE-wrenches]

[Bob Ellison]

Hello Wrenches,
>From a conversation with someone at a local Maytag dealer, they may say that
the Neptune uses ".096 kWh per load" and I don't know any different. However
its water use is very high, because it constantly pumps out soapy water and
replaces it with fresh water to keep sudsing down. It definitely will make
your water pump run and risk running your well dry, if you don't have good
well.

My understand is also that bottom freezers use more power. If the compressor
is located at the bottom it would make sense due to the heat generated.

That "Doug Rye" Show scares me, I guess I spend too much time preaching
efficiency. (I hope no one listens to him)!

Just my 2 cents worth....

Bob Ellison



-----Original Message-----
From:	Travis Creswell [mailto:ozsolar at ipa.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 22, 2000 9:33 AM
To:	RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject:	Re: Explorer Products? [RE-wrenches]

Bill,

I've never heard that a bottom freezer uses more but I'm like you in that I
really prefer the freezer on the bottom.  A customer emailed Maytag about
the Neptune front loading washer.  They replied that it uses .096 kWh per
load.  Of course Maytag might not be too happy if they found it was on a RE
system.  During a phone call to Amana about my fridge they told me that they
do not recommend that their appliances be hooked up to "Solar Panels".  I
was curious about disabling the self defrost feature which seems to use
around .25kWh per day.

Does anyone get the "Doug Rye" Show?  He has a great talk show on one of the
Local AM stations around here on Saturday mornings but he is always
welcoming new stations to his show.  It's a call in show where he helps
people figure out how to cut their energy bills.  He describes himself as
the "King of Caulk and Talk".  He is really pretty good even if he spends
most of his time pushing ground source heat pumps and all electric houses.
This is understandable since his sponsors are the Local Electric CO-OP.

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