Refrigerator leave on or off during non use times?
I have always left mine on and usually the wife has things in there ready for a trip what do you do? Is it better to leave them on or off when stored?
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Our original refrigerator 1402 Dometic side by side. The refrigerator performance was OK but I noticed that it used a lot of energy. My coach has a power monitoring panel and it seemed the Dometic ran almost continuously. Although it ran a lot it cooled just fine even when it was 95 degrees outside. To check how much electricity it was using I plugged it into a "Kill-A-Watt" meter. In April when I started our RV season we turned on the Dometic and plugged it into the meter. Dometic duty cycle is running 42% of the time at 420 watts. After running 2000 hours the predicted cost was $154/year (@ .10Kw/hour).
We replace the Dometic with a 14.5 CF Hotpoint. Hotpoint duty cycle is running 25% of the time at 92 watts. This works out to a yearly cost of about $20.
I would buy a Kill-A-Watt meter and see what your refrigerator is using and make a decision based on the data you collect.
We replace the Dometic with a 14.5 CF Hotpoint. Hotpoint duty cycle is running 25% of the time at 92 watts. This works out to a yearly cost of about $20.
I would buy a Kill-A-Watt meter and see what your refrigerator is using and make a decision based on the data you collect.
