>Only 10% the space of a regular fridge, still uses half the power or more.Post inefficient appliances that shouldn't exist.
Basically every time I've ever seen one of those, they're on someone else's power bill. A dorm room, an office etc.
>>2987943I'm not posting a picture of my wife, anon... Nice try.
space consumption is an aspect of efficiency
>>2987943they would have more room if they put the compressor under, on top of, or behind the unit.
>>2987943>still uses half the power or more.A standard fridge uses about 5 amps max.small ones like that you 1 amp max.so 1/5 the power.
>>2987953A chevy tahoe with a 1 gallon gas tank vs 40 gallon doesn't use less gass just needs to fill up every mile. Hope my analogy works for you
>>2987943Maintaining cool air uses the same energy in an insulated space.
>>2987963space is smaller so easier to cool.
Your complaints are valid but it lets me have cold drinks in my garage/shop, where a full-size fridge would be impractical, so it's worth it to me.
>>2987946>thanks for playing fact hunt
>>2987943cause its a peltier coolerthere exists cooling cycle noisy mini fridges tho
>>2987994every dorm fridge ive had was a regular compressor/refrigerant system
>>2987943Should be we toast bread on a heat pump?
>>2988027entropy says everything is a toaster in the grand scheme of things
I worked for a small appliance manufacturer, not going to tell you which one, and about once every two or three years we got a complaint about our >1W vampire current draw. Out of about a million units sold every year.
>>2987945Yep, that was me. Had a cheap peltier type fridge under my desk at the office. My employer, a top law firm, was incredibly rich so I didn't care about the electric use and doubt they would have either.
Samsung claims their AI fridge makes peltier cooling efficient in a hybrid construct.https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-unveils-new-refrigerators-with-innovative-ai-hybrid-cooling-technology-at-ces-2025
>>2987953Yeah this is silly. They’re way cheaper to run. >>2987943If you somehow got a messed up one just attach $5 of insulation to the outside.
My 20 cubic foot LG LTCS20020S is running between 50 and 60 watts for a total of around 0.75kwh a day. If it didn't have to defrost it would probably be around 0.5kwh a day.
>>2987971Easier to heat too. Square-cube law is a bitch and in this case, smaller is worse
>>2988170>My 20 cubic foot >.7kwhthis anon's .5 a day for only 3.5 cubic feet lol >>2975408 >>2975405
>>2987945Pretty much. It's a good indicator that the person has a substance use problem when in a private domicile
>>2990937That used to be true for me, but it wasn't my own substance abuse problem - my brother is a raging alcoholic and when we lived together I couldn't leave anything alcoholic where he could get to it or it'd be gone by the next morning.
>>2988170I have an inverter fridge thats supposed to be pretty cheap to run, but it is the fan runs constantly and is stupid noisy
>>2987943Volume increases with the cube of the dimension. Surface area, with the square.Bigger is better.
Get one without the useless "freezer" part. I did and it's better. It just fills up with hard ice anyways.
>>2987943Thats the brice of freedom :DD
>>2987943>xhir didn't buy a chest freezer/fridge
was cleaning out my pantry and remembered that there was an oddly placed outlet in the back. found one of these Cuisinart Wine Fridges on Marketplace for $50 and it fit perfectly. turn it down to lowest setting of 39 degrees F and it keeps normal drinks cold enough and you can fit two 12 oz cans where a single bottle of wine would go. not sure about the power usage but it does produce a bit of heat out of the back but nothing crazy.
>>2990937>It's a good indicator that the person has a substance use problem when in a private domicilewait, what makes you think this?
Birkeland–Eyde; pvt gas law there is more than one varible that can be adjusted and bigger the delta from room the more energy.
Considering a Electrolux EBE4302BD-L because it has 6 energy stars, and is left hinge open. anyone have a clue about it?
>>2994977>left hinge openYour fridges won't let you flip the door to the other side? I've only ever seen that on the cheapest models of fridge. Like mini-fridges or bottom of the line one off models and shit.
>>2995075this particular one doesn't, it comes in two varieties instead. I'm mainly attracted to the energy savings of having such an efficient fridge
>>2995102>buy very expensive cooler like Yeti>Put ice in it>costs virtually nothing if you can freeze your own ice>costs even less if you can leech off of a friend's fridge and freeze some bottles with water in it>stays cool for around 2 weeks to a month depending on tons of factorsAnd if you can't freeze your own ice you can always just go to a convenience store or a grocery store and buy ice.
>>2987954>Hope my analogy works for youIt doesn't on account of being totally retarded.
>>2987943>1% the space of a real fridge>uses MORE energy than an actual fridge>cannot reach the temperatures an actual fridge requiresNever ever buy this temu garbage. Their one and only purpose is to be purchased by impulsive buyers. It is a refrigerator-shaped object that cannot do anything a fridge is supposed to do.
>>2997857It's definitely meme for retards, i mean look at those fucking hinges lol, looks like hinges that should be on a wooden box, but you'd probably get colder just by blowing ac on a your drinks.>>2997796If you haven't, there are terracotta/clay pot coolers that work the same way. All you do is:>buy a giant terracotta flower pot>then buy one that is slightly smaller>put slightly smaller terracotta pot in the center of the bigger one>fill the outer space with ice>put what you want cooled into the smaller pot>cover with a wet towel or another terracotta pot>congrats you now have an ancient cooler and an interesting history piece you can research or drone on about to people whose curiosity outweighs their sense.
>>2997895Those ancient people would have had to bury it in the dirt for insulation. A terra cotta pot filled with ice isn't doing anything to keep the heat out. You're already massively inconveniencing yourself in the name of saving a penny with this idea of using a cooler and cycling frozen water bottles from your friend's freezer. Storing your food in pots buried in the earth like it's 1500 BC is just plain niggardly.
>>2997895That only works in very arid climates, anon.
>>2997857They're not great. My daughter grabbed one at a flea market for $5, and while it does cool down some sodas in a small space the door is horrible. It doesn't seal well and allows humidity in, which condenses and runs out the front and grows mold on the inside. I even tried cutting foam tape to fit around it and while it helped it didn't completely eliminate the problem and made latching it harder.
>>2997956The doors are horrible by design. In the name of shaving a few dollars off the MSRP of these devices, there's no temperature regulator and the peltier cooler that powers it runs at full power at all times. To avoid possible freezing, the door is intentionally designed to leak so much heat that it is never able to get close to the freezing. Yes, they do end up costing more money in the form of energy than you save by not having a thermostat, but that's a problem for the retard buying it to (not) deal with, not the manufacturer. I cannot think of a more cynical appliance than these. Useless consumer trash is nothing new, but most of them end up stashed away unused in a closet or a landfill. These things are designed to sit plugged in draining power into perpetuity.
>>2987943Ive had one of them in uniWas comfy being able to just grab a drink while sitting at desk.I should get one again
>>2987943Having one of these in my room was a lifelong dream of mine. Luckily I grew out of it before I got one
clay pot coolers work by evaporation not by insulation or ice guyshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator
>>2998327You can fix that by making a bigger clay pot refrigerator for your smaller clay pot refrigerator
>>2998329i dont need to fix shit as i have a fridge and freezer. but ive seen one in action, i friend was into permaculture and made one, they work suprisingly well considering.
>>2997960I got one at goodwill and plugged it in at my grandma's room at the nursing home and the fucking thing died after like a monthI figured not my power bill so why not? but it just fucking died
>>2998334The shameful device regains its honor through electric seppuku.
>>2998330You can make your fridge more efficient by submerging it in a huge clap pot with a smaller clay pot inside in your basement.
>>2987943The regular fridge is pretty inefficient too because all the cold air falls out when you open the door. It's much better for the door to be on top.Think about it. You feel much more cold when you open a fridge than a chest freezer even though the chest freezer is bigger and colder inside.Chest fridge is the way.
>>2999407>Chest fridge is the way.It's also the most inefficient way to use space though
>>2988325the more objects you can have in a space to hold temperature, like gallons of booze, will enable temperature retention and less use of cooler
>>2994426>i need dedicated space for sugary or alcoholic beverageuse your brain cells
>>2997937>>2997937>is just plain niggardly.yet they haven't figured it out yet
>>2998427kek
>>2999429oh, I was expecting something less dumb than that. I use mine for film.
>>2987943I have one runs from may to November on a 200w of solar panel and a 100ah battery
