Comments on: Of fridges, solar power and getting the most out of them http://archive.sustainablehouse.com.au/2014/09/of-fridges-solar-power-and-getting-the-most-out-of-them/ Michael Mobbs Sustainable House Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: commercial solar power installation http://archive.sustainablehouse.com.au/2014/09/of-fridges-solar-power-and-getting-the-most-out-of-them/comment-page-1/#comment-22366 commercial solar power installation Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:16:33 +0000 http://sustainablehouse.com.au/?p=4563#comment-22366 With the rise in cost of electricity it has become an important factor to find an alternate for it like using the renewable sources such as solar energy. Solar energy uses sunlight to generate electricity it is 100% renewable.

]]> By: Moz http://archive.sustainablehouse.com.au/2014/09/of-fridges-solar-power-and-getting-the-most-out-of-them/comment-page-1/#comment-20866 Moz Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:11:07 +0000 http://sustainablehouse.com.au/?p=4563#comment-20866 Drawer fridges are fairly avilable now, a quick online search showed up a few options. Mitsubishi do a range of two-drawer fridge-freers with a top door, if you’re willing to compromise that way. And quite a few of the bigger firdges come with a freezer drawer option. Unfortunately performance seems to be poor (2 stars) for the most part.

I’m glad to hear there are other options than the SunFrost fridges, as we’re currently suffering with a second hand power-sucker that I’d like to upgrade but haven’t been able to find anything that seems much better for under ~$2000 for a 300-400 litre fridge/freezer.

Also, Muchael, have you looked at ready-to-recycle traction batteries instead of new designed-for-solar? The idea is you buy a forkilift battery that has degraded to the point where it won’t power a forklift for a full day, so you can buy a cheap battery that’s down to, say, 20kWh of a rated 50kWh capacity. Then when it really dies you sell it back to the recycler and generally the cost is delivery. I did that ~25 years ago in NZ, and when we buy a house and put PV on the roof and have enough cash I’ll look at doing it again. It was a very cheap way to get batteries when I did it before, but obviously not everyone can do it…

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