Kitchen Aid 15 cu. ft. [RE-wrenches]

[Dana Orzel]

Bob,
Are you sure that there were no power failures or a breaker switched off.
This is pretty darn good for a conventional refrigerator. The Brand meter
would have reset if so. Also, Is you house air conditioned?

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Great Solar Works, Inc.    -   Ridgway, CO
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> This weekend I found a Brand meter which I lost almost a year ago. I,
> of course, found it just where I had left it; behind my home
> refrigerator, diligently recording the kw's these last 12 months.
>
> The anecdotal result: The Energy Star label on the unit predicted it
> would use 696 kwh in a year. The Brand meter is showing 172.1 kwh for
> 355 days of operation which puts it just a little higher than the
> predicted performance of a Sun-Frost.
>
> This is a 10-year old KitchenAid 15 cu. ft., frost-free,
> refrigerator-only unit in a two-person, no-kids household in Southern
> CA. Not a main-stream unit by any means but still interesting results
> I think.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Bob Galbreath
> Geo-Lite Systems
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