Electricity consumption after installation of new fridge freezer.
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Community Team31-07-23That's a massive drop in consumption 👏 @meldrewreborn have you done anything else differently this year or is this solely a change from the fridge freezer?"Green is the prime colour of the world and that from which it's loveliness arises"-Pedro Calderon De La Barca 🌳
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Level 9101-08-23@DebF_EONNext
The vast majority is down to the fridge freezer, but there will have been other elements (both plus and minus ) as well.
here is a graph showing average daily consumption in kWh by month in past 3 years. The new freezer was purchased 2nd week in November 2022.Last edited by meldrewreborn; 01-08-23 at 15:44.
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Level 9101-08-23The moral of this tale is that while the maxim "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is one I generally subscribe to, its also true that in general modern appliances use less energy than old appliances, and for some appliances their efficiency declines even more as they age although they still work (the freezer was still maintaining freezing temperatures). So even though it wasn't broken down it was an energy guzzler, and the only way to tell was to measure the consumption of this one appliance was by using a through plug meter.
Also appliances that are working all the time (fridges and freezers mainly) can use a lot of energy. -
Level 2102-04-24My fridge-freezer has been using 0.4 kWh/day in March 2024. Why is mine using an order of magnitude less than your figures ?
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Because the graphs shown above by @meldrewreborn shows average total leccy use rather than just the F/F. -
Level 9102-04-24@wizzo227
Further to the explanation above, I now think the saving due mainly to replacing my old energy guzzling freezer is circa 1170 kWh per annum. At current prices that is £284 pa. The Freezer cost me £449, so in a little while I'll be in front, if I'm not already given how prices have moved in the interim.
My usage is circa 1690 kWh per annum now or 4.63 kWh per day. -
Level 2102-04-24Lets get to the bottom of this as it is a big enough discrepancy that the general public need to know. 1170kWh/year is a huge saving; 3.2 kWh/day; eight times more than I clocked mine using in March (not ten; I was inaccurate to call it an order of magnitude). I've looked at mine in the summer enough to see similar motor draw of about 70 Watts and the time with motor on increasing from once an hour as now to about half of the time; estimated 0.9kWh/day in summer; still well under one third of your savings. I'm trying to guess what could have been wrong with your old fridge freezer. Its motor could not have been on for 190% of the time so must have been a lot bigger than mine. Excepting the millisecond start spike, what is the maximum usual power draw of your old and new fridge freezers ?
You must have had one big ugly fridge ?
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