They were mostly hiding under the door seal.
I’m not a quitter tho. I washed it with bleach then doused it with ortho bug killer and left it in the sun for a few days.
It works great btw
They were mostly hiding under the door seal.
I’m not a quitter tho. I washed it with bleach then doused it with ortho bug killer and left it in the sun for a few days.
It works great btw
Nice!
Any idea the running wattage? I’ve been looking to add a mini fridge to my basement but would want to run it from the solar system I’m putting together. My big kitchen fridge is 100-400 watts depending on the cycle, so I’d guess maybe 50-100 watts for a fridge that size?
You can go the the Energy Star website for mini-fridges (that link is sorted by most efficient first). Then filter by whatever size fits your space best, preferred manufacturers, etc.
Yeah, I was just hoping for something a little more granular than KWh per year.
If you hit up some sources for the wattage details for something in your size, you’ll notice that the energy star annual use matches, so you can just grab one around whatever energy star energy use rating that fits your needs.
It’s just a basic general conversion, but not all manufacturers are up front about wattages.
Also, remember they pull more power when the compressor kicks on, so make sure what power source you have can hit that max easy enough.
There’s something called an “appliance soft start” that anyone with a small scale power system should be familiar with, capacitor or something in there to soak up those load spikes. My freezer usually pulls ~100 watts but spikes over a kW on startup and will absolutely pop my inverter without one if there’s anything else running
Wattage is going to be pretty low. I could test it but I probably wont bother.
I recently posted our mini fridge we got from a hotel. Ours looks roughly half as tall as the one in OP’s post, but I just checked the label on the compressor and ours says 77 watts.
https://lemmy.world/post/44660251
Check out refrigerator coolers for RVs/cars. There’s some good sized ones and they run right off 12v systems so it can connect directly to your solar and batteries. They are all <100w, usually 40-60w when running.