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I bought a little gadget from JayCar the other day to measure how much electricity various devices use
I've had it hooked up to my keg fridge - It's an old kelvinator (20+ years old - 480 litre) - As it got the blame for the increased power bill last quarter
I've got it rigged up with a fridgemate set to 5*C, 2*C degree tolerance and the probe is shoved in a piece of polystyrene - which dangles in the fridge
Having run it for 3 days with the device - it's chewed up just over 6kWh and cost 98c to run
That's about 33c per day or $120 per annum
I was surfing the net and came across this very interesting article
http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.pdf
It suggests that a converted chest freezers can be run at as little as 0.1kWh per day or about $6 per annum (assuming 16c per kWh)
So I guess the moral of the story is converted chest freezers can be used not only in craft brewing but to also save $ in the household budget
And that fellow brewers should lean toward a chest freezer when setting up a keg system or even for everyday household use
It goes to show that a free fridge may not be as "free" as one would have initially thought
Now all I have to do is convince SWMBO that converted chest freezers are the way of the future!
Cheers
I've had it hooked up to my keg fridge - It's an old kelvinator (20+ years old - 480 litre) - As it got the blame for the increased power bill last quarter
I've got it rigged up with a fridgemate set to 5*C, 2*C degree tolerance and the probe is shoved in a piece of polystyrene - which dangles in the fridge
Having run it for 3 days with the device - it's chewed up just over 6kWh and cost 98c to run
That's about 33c per day or $120 per annum
I was surfing the net and came across this very interesting article
http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.pdf
It suggests that a converted chest freezers can be run at as little as 0.1kWh per day or about $6 per annum (assuming 16c per kWh)
So I guess the moral of the story is converted chest freezers can be used not only in craft brewing but to also save $ in the household budget
And that fellow brewers should lean toward a chest freezer when setting up a keg system or even for everyday household use
It goes to show that a free fridge may not be as "free" as one would have initially thought
Now all I have to do is convince SWMBO that converted chest freezers are the way of the future!
Cheers