IF you own a freezer......

[aczlan]

My Acurite 00986 units showed up, thank you Amazon and no shipping cost. The Lithium batteries did not however. It looks like there is a shipping problem with them, says Delivery Date Pending. Maybe they needed to be put on an Airplane to get here :shocked:

Same here, have alkalines in them for now.

Chest freezer is running at -2F, upright freezer is running at 6F.

Aaron Z

 

[repete]

We have 6 chest freezer in the 7-9cuft range that we normally use. A 14 & 18cf upright we only use for quick freezing meat when we butcher pigs or a beef, then it gets distributed among the chest freezers, and the uprights cut off. The power consumption on the chest freezers varies from a bit under 1/2kwhr/day to about 3/4kwhr/day.....so I'm running 4-5 chest models for the same power use as your one upright.

You would probably use less power if you filled it with old milk jugs with water and let them freeze in your upright.

Thanks! I am going to try this. I will put the meter on it for a week empty and measure the KWh's then freeze the water jugs and rerun the test for the same period of time. Shop temps will not very this time of year much as it holds about 55 degrees. I enjoy these sorts of things.

 

[repete]

It is great that you fixed it up.

The running costs on older refrigerators and freezers certainly adds up. Each time we have replaced and older one with a newer, we have halved our electricity bill. That might not matter much if you are paying $0.02/kWh, but our peak is $0.43/kWh, and it adds up. Of course, if it is free to begin with...that's a couple of years of "free" power.

All the best,

Peter

We are at 6.5 cents per KWh here so about twenty cents a day.

 

[ultrarunner]

Just did November allocation and hospital paid exactly 24 cents per kW.

 

[two_bit_score]

Newsom probably considers it green energy if it is produced out of CA.

That means he would pay more for it, right?

 

[Doofy]

We are at 6.5 cents per KWh here so about twenty cents a day.

That's rough. Ours is .28 per kwh. Sad that some in he lower 48 pay twice as much as we do. We have 2 Hydro systems but still have to revert back to heavy oil generation this time of year when the water freezes. One would think that with the price of oil being down that power generation costs would also drop. Fat Chance.

 

[Doofy]

I've fiddled around with repairing freezers when the simple things crap out and can be replaced but I've never tried recharging one.I may read up on how to do recharges. I have a couple of old chest freezers that are just not cooling but the compressors run fine.

 

[fried1765]

Just cut me out a medium rare rib from a standing rib roast for the best flavor beef can have. :licking: :drool:

You want healthy, get some tofu.

I don't eat TOFU, though have spent much time in Japan.
Kobe beef is the best, and Kobe beef filet even better.
Prime rib is a cholesterol bomb.... full of FAT!

 

[repete]

That's rough. Ours is .28 per kwh. Sad that some in he lower 48 pay twice as much as we do. We have 2 Hydro systems but still have to revert back to heavy oil generation this time of year when the water freezes. One would think that with the price of oil being down that power generation costs would also drop. Fat Chance.

Wow. .28 is a lot.

 

[goeduck]

These Acurites sure are very sloooow to respond. I know they need to be in case you just loaded it up with room temperature meat, but it sure makes my testing (to make sure they go into alarm) take all night.