Do you turn off your refrigerator?
Good Evening All... As long as we have been camping we had not heard that this was something we should do until this evening when a friend mentioned it to us. We keep our hybrid plugged in out in ou...
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BBFD wrote:BobsYourUncle wrote:pianotuna wrote:
325 watts x 2 /3 x 24 = 5.2 kwh per day
365 x 5.2 = 1898 Kwh per year
1898 x 0.12 =~ $227.00 per year
Don, I thought mine was only 175 watts. Seems I pulled it apart once to look. It's been a while, maybe I'm mistaken. Wouldn't be the first time - LOL!
I put my Kill-O-Watt on my 8 cu ft refig a few years ago and got around ~325 watts. Meter was plugged in at the frig rather than the shore power to avoid misleading data from charger, detector, etc.
Different size fridges ...different wattage heat elements.
Key is to know/use the right one for YOUR model of fridge
