colonel
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Post by colonel on Sept 8, 2017 20:12:25 GMT 10
Hi all,
does anyone one have any experience with a combined electric and gas fridge? That is, a fridge that takes both sources of power and electricity is the main power but the fridge reverts to gas if the electricity goes off.
there is a mob in tassie that makes them and I am curious on how efficient and effective they are. They could be good for when the so called forecasted blackouts occur.
Thanks
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remnantprep
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Post by remnantprep on Sept 8, 2017 21:54:00 GMT 10
Sorry colonel but not something I have ever heard of, have heard of kerosene fridge though!
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Post by paranoia on Sept 9, 2017 12:37:30 GMT 10
We had a combined 240v / gas fridge when I was living off grid. I never really liked it, it ended up as the shed/Christmas fridge.
There was a manual process to start the pilot light to swap it over to gas and it never really kept things as cold whilst on gas.
If I was doing it again I'd just buy an efficient dedicated electric fridge and a generator. I get it if you're putting it in a caravan or a bush block/weekender but as my main fridge? never again.
They're tiny, expensive and will never be as efficient as a dedicated electric.
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Post by grumble on Sept 9, 2017 16:16:56 GMT 10
Sorry colonel but not something I have ever heard of, have heard of kerosene fridge though! Ah the old kero fridge Electrolux silent knight if I recall correctly we had the fridge and freezer both of them used to use around nearly 40L of kero a week between the 2 of them but that was working in 40 degree heat everyday so they were kind of working pretty hard I will give them credit though they never missed a beat my parents used them from the 70's to 95 when my dad gave them to a cattle station to be used in an outstation during the mustering season
This day and age of solar/wind power and super power efficient fridges has certainly rendered them obsolete id even say they have almost rendered gas fridges obsolete as well as you just cant really compete with how well an AC or DC fridge works and if you start looking at the cost of operating the fridge per hour based off it energy source then powered once start to come out ahead I mean a good quality inverter generator like a Honda EU20i at full load only uses 900ml/1L an hour of petrol or 15hours on 3.6L on a 3.6L tank in econo mode that's pretty hard to beat compared to say gas
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Post by graynomad on Sept 10, 2017 11:14:31 GMT 10
Three-way fridges are common in RVs, but they use a LOT of gas and as a rule don't work as well as compressor fridges. If you go to a rally the 3-way guys are always talking about various tricks they use to make them work better in hot weather, the compressor guys just turn them on and concern themselves with other things  |
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