Dan, I tend to agree with you. Turning off the frig and then turning it back on to cool down the contents just can't save that much money because you will have to overcome the heat which the contents have gained.
A frig which is rarely opened will usually hold it's temp pretty well and run very little. Cy From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 8:07 PM To: bhm Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] refrigerator on timer Lenny, So, if you are considering just saving some money, how much does a timer cost VS how much will you save in electricity? I mean, a fridge can't cost more than 6 or 8 bucks a month to run, and you would save less than a third of that. OK, so maybe you would save 20 or 30 bucks a year which would probably recover the cost of the timer in a year or so. I assume you aren't doing this to save energy, because having a second refrigerator is not really an energy saver to begin with. Hmm, can you disconnect the frost free system? Don't know if that is possible or not, but might save as well. What about selling it, and purchasing a newer, more efficient, smaller fridge? Which would probably consume less energy than the larger older fridge even with the timer scheme. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
