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I was watching extreme cheapsakes and this women said she turns off her freezer for 12 hours and turns it back on. Well I was wondering if i do that to my fridge?
What saves about 40 cents worth of electricity a month? The compressor is already on a thermostat does she have dialed to the "least cold" setting already?
Yes you can do it if you want to. My power was out yesterday and today for more than 20hrs, everything was fine. I'm not sure it's worth the trouble though.
it won't hurt it but it's ridiculous to think it's going to save any money. The compressor will run constantly until the correct temperature has been reached AGAIN on the inside.
some people do puzzle me to. not only the wear and tear on the fridge but what about the cost of the eletricity to bring the fridge back to temp? i would not do it.
IF your fridge and freeze were packed with food to help keep the temp and while it was off you never ever ever ever opened it, you might away with it -- BUT -- you just had a house built, didn't you? Your appliances should be state of the art, and what you would save would be very minimal.
If you can find the sticker for your fridge you could look at the average cost of running it for year -- divide that number by 12 to get monthly cost, and then divide that by 2, since 12 hours is half a day, you're essentially not using the power for half the time.
NOW -- frozen food thawed then refrozen and thawed and refrozen (could happen -- even just a tiny bit) -- that just ruins the food and you would end up with food waste. You'd have to estimate the cost of the power savings versus the cost of the food waste, and the inconveniece factor, because you're not going to know until you take it out of the freezer what may have to be tossed...
After doing a little research I found a table that said at 15 cents a kilowatt, a refrigerator bought in 2010 should use about 500KW a year, making it 75 bucks a year. Using my formula, turning it off 12 hours a day would save you a whopping 3.13 cents a month.
Chances of food waste are far greater that you'd lose more than 3.13 of food a month from doing this, not to mention possible food poisoning from food that's gone off...
IF your fridge and freeze were packed with food to help keep the temp and while it was off you never ever ever ever opened it, you might away with it -- BUT -- you just had a house built, didn't you? Your appliances should be state of the art, and what you would save would be very minimal.
If you can find the sticker for your fridge you could look at the average cost of running it for year -- divide that number by 12 to get monthly cost, and then divide that by 2, since 12 hours is half a day, you're essentially not using the power for half the time.
NOW -- frozen food thawed then refrozen and thawed and refrozen (could happen -- even just a tiny bit) -- that just ruins the food and you would end up with food waste. You'd have to estimate the cost of the power savings versus the cost of the food waste, and the inconveniece factor, because you're not going to know until you take it out of the freezer what may have to be tossed...
After doing a little research I found a table that said at 15 cents a kilowatt, a refrigerator bought in 2010 should use about 500KW a year, making it 75 bucks a year. Using my formula, turning it off 12 hours a day would save you a whopping 3.13 cents a month.
Chances of food waste are far greater that you'd lose more than 3.13 of food a month from doing this, not to mention possible food poisoning from food that's gone off...
Yeah -- not worth it.
That's even at 15 cents a kilowatt/hr. We pay just under 6 cents. So it would be a cent. 1 cent. Lol. Not worth it.
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