IF you own a freezer......

[goeduck]

Probably correct. One more reason to keep those freezers as full as possible.

Absolutely, keeps the cycling to a minimum and the runtime when they do run to a maximum. Longer life.

 

[Doofy]

When we buy our Freezer Paks (beef, pork, poultry, veggies, etc) in the Fall, we fill all 4 5-8 cu ft freezers full. As the food is used, things get shuffled around to keep the other freezers full and a little later one or two can be emptied and shut off.

 

[repete]

I will be finished running my 7 day straight with an empty freezer having found a place to tuck it out of the way. I will pick up 15 gallons of distilled water (which I use with coolant) and after freezing and stabilizing the temp for a few days rerun the 7 day test and see if it does use fewer Kwh's.

So after running the test with a full vs empty freezer for one week I found the empty one used 15.6 Kwh and the full one used 15.1 Kwh. Not a significant difference.

 

[goeduck]

So after running the test with a full vs empty freezer for one week I found the empty one used 15.6 Kwh and the full one used 15.1 Kwh. Not a significant difference.

I would not have expected much, if any, but the life of a full freezer should be significantly longer which is why I keep mine full.

 

[TnAndy]

When we buy our Freezer Paks (beef, pork, poultry, veggies, etc) in the Fall, we fill all 4 5-8 cu ft freezers full. As the food is used, things get shuffled around to keep the other freezers full and a little later one or two can be emptied and shut off.

Same way we use ours. We have 6 in the 7-9.5cuft range, plus one spare 7cuft, plus a 14 and 18cuft upright. The uprights get used to quick freeze meat when we slaughter a pig or beef, then they are turned off and stored in the walk-in cooler. This time of year, they are at their fullest point, all 6.

Wife is canning some of the breakfast sausage to save freezer room:

And I made 25lbs of summer sausage out of 15lbs of beef pulled out of the freezer and 10lbs of fresh pork.

 

[TnAndy]

So after running the test with a full vs empty freezer for one week I found the empty one used 15.6 Kwh and the full one used 15.1 Kwh. Not a significant difference.

Would have thought it would be greater savings. Another rumor shot down !

 

[Doofy]

Same way we use ours. We have 6 in the 7-9.5cuft range, plus one spare 7cuft, plus a 14 and 18cuft upright. The uprights get used to quick freeze meat when we slaughter a pig or beef, then they are turned off and stored in the walk-in cooler. This time of year, they are at their fullest point, all 6.

Wife is canning some of the breakfast sausage to save freezer room:

And I made 25lbs of summer sausage out of 15lbs of beef pulled out of the freezer and 10lbs of fresh pork.

Very clever! :thumbsup:

 

[goeduck]

Would have thought it would be greater savings. Another rumor shot down !

The main reason I would expect an empty one to use more energy is that it would have more start ups. Start up on compressor creates high electrical in rush and an empty one will have way more start ups since air is fast to cool down to the cutout temperature. In rush is for a very short period of time, but it is there.

Nice looking sausage!

 

[ultrarunner]

So after running the test with a full vs empty freezer for one week I found the empty one used 15.6 Kwh and the full one used 15.1 Kwh. Not a significant difference.

Would that be an upright or chest freezer?

 

[repete]

Would that be an upright or chest freezer?

Upright. Door never opened during either test.