Freezer specs [RE-wrenches]

[Steve Willey]

That was 300 and 1000 watt hours per day, not 300 and 100!

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From: "Steve Willey, Backwoods Solar" <steve at backwoodssolar.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Freezer specs [RE-wrenches]


> We have measured Conserv Chest between 300 and 100 watt hours per day.
> Actual amount depends on room temperature an internal setting.  Factory
temp
> range control comes with a range of -20F to about 0 or +3 F.  We offer
> customers a torx tool and instructions to modify the range available so
that
> they can set -10 to +10.  This brings max very hot day usage down from
> perhaps 1100 watt hours to 800 or 900. Cold day or location of freezer to
an
> unheated area in winter drops power use to 300 and less at times.  I think
> the average on a 70 -75 degree day with +7 internal temp used around 550
> watt hours.
>
> This unit also functions as a chest refrigerator with addition of an
> external thermostat through which one can plug the freezer's line cord.
>
> We have had only one hassle in sales of several hundred of this unit.  As
> might be expected, one customer ha a problem making the internal range
> adjustment change, but that problem turned out to be that she had removed
> the thermometer sensor bulb from its location and got it back in without
the
> heat transfer grease that is necessary.
>
> I have not seen any other unit like it in AC that competes, however there
is
> one thing to be aware of when selling this 8 cu ft freezer. Should a
> customer want to purchase more than one freezer for a single location,
it's
> best to advise that the very large surface area of two super insulated 8
cu
> ft freezers requires the same power consumption than does a single poorly
> insulated 16 cu ft chest unit. In other words two $700 Conserv 8 cu ft
units
> use as much power as a single $300 16 cu ft. Sears freezer.
> Steve Willey       steve at backwoodssolar.com
> www.backwoodssolar.com
> Backwoods Solar Electric Systems
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allan Sindelar, Positive Energy, Inc."
> <allan at positiveenergysolar.com>
> To: "New wrenches posting" <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 10:03 PM
> Subject: Freezer specs [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> > Wrenches,
> > 1. What are your real-world power consumption measurements and
reliability
>
> > reports on the ConServ chest freezer?
> > 2. Is there another AC freezer in the same size range that you would
> > recommend instead for offgrid use, and why?
> > Thank you.
> > Allan at Positive Energy
>
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