My wife and I recently (September of this year) replaced the fridge that came with our house we bought two years ago. The fridge was purchased new in October 1965 according to the owners manual left with the house. It was a GE with drawer freezer on the bottom, around 20 C.F., and according to the nameplate was rated 5.8 Amp. When we bought the house, we had the fridge out for painting so put the kill-o-watt on it. Unfortunately, when the fridge started up, it pulled enough surge amps to cause the kill-o-watt to alarm as to an overload so I was unwilling to leave it on for a day or two to see the actual usage. I did put my amp-clamp on the line in the breaker panel though which showed running current draw was close to 7-8 A. To date, the new 26
CF freezer drawer on the bottom, french doors on top Maytag we bought has not seemed to make much of a difference in the electrical usage when comparing last year's equivalent month. I figure we saved enough going to the scratch-n-dent store and asking for the additional cash discount (total of $600 less that the exact same model number retails for at Menards) to offset any savings we might ever see on the electric bill. It is worth mentioning that the only defect we found was after we hauled it home and is a very small dent in the handle for the freezer which is easily concealed by a kitchen towel.
As a side note, we also have a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down ~16 CF chest style Kenmore deep freeze that we can only guess is from the early 80's. It is in our un-insulated garage and I did connect the kill-o-watt on it for a week in the heat of August. I figured at our $0.11 (taxes and fees averaged in co-op rate) KWH rate would cost us at most $3.00 / month to run.
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