[Noisebridge-discuss] another fridge for bridge?

[jim]

   great idea! 
   here's a link to an alternate site of someone who's 
made that conversion: interesting list of benefits. 
http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/chestfridge.htm 



On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 10:30 -0800, Christina Olson wrote:
> Dunno if anyone's thought of this, but hacking a chest freezer's
> temperature control makes for a very cost efficient fridge.  Every
> time you open the door on a regular vertical fridge all the cold air
> basically falls out, because it's heavier than the hotter air outside
> the fridge, and then the fridge has to work harder (meaning use more
> power [ power == dollars]) to replace all the cold air that just went
> poof.  Chest units don't have this problem, because, well, they're
> horizontal, cold air stays where it is when you open the top.  I saw a
> hacked unit like this at PS:1 in Chicago.  
> 
> 
> Half assed googling gets me this article:
>  http://hackaday.com/2009/08/27/energy-efficient-fridge-hack/  > "In
> the end, his fridge only used 103 Wh of electricity on the first day
> to reach and maintain between 4° and 7° C (39° to 45° F), and he noted
> that 30% of that was just getting it up to temperature. After that,
> the fridge only turned on for roughly 90 seconds an hour, making it a
> very quiet fridge as well."  There's also a link to a pdf with a
> somewhat vague (to me who is not overly familiar with appliance
> circuits) set of instructions on how to screw with the thermostat.  
> 
> 
> Less power + greater efficiency per dollar == fewer dollars per month
> to have cold things
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
>         
>           refrigerators take a lot of current == power == dollars
>         per month
>         
>         
>         
>         On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 23:29 -0800, Kelly wrote:
>         > You guys, Noisebridge already has two fridges. Just saying.
>         >
>         > And the temperature of Noisebridge generally is probably not
>         going to
>         > vary far from the wine-fridge window (50-57°F)...
>         >
>         > JUST SAYING.
>         >
>         > -K
>         >
>         > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 16:55, Patrick Keys
>         <citizenkeys at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > > On the topic of fridges...
>         > > Noisebridge has a small wine fridge that somebody, for
>         some reason, cut
>         > > the power cable.
>         > >
>         > > If anybody can fix that power cable, I think it would be
>         great for
>         > > noisebridge to have a stash of wine on-hand.
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > Patrick
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > On 12/10/2010 1:11 PM, maestro wrote:
>         > >> some here now thought we the house could use another....
>         > >>
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