want a fridge with low pwer consumption?

with what and how did he measure the power consumption?

Even doing pro-rata calcs based on size etc from the ratings shown here the claimed figure looks too good to be true

I can't remember exactly how he measured it. Maybe someone who reads this can get a copy. I'll check a news agent. I think I recall that in his measuring the compressor came on for an average of only 13 seconds at a time. Its a pretty serious magazine I thought and it was a featured article rather than a letter to the editor type thing. But its just unfortunate i don't have a copy of the article for more detail, well, yet.

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100W is not a "quantity" of electricity.
Amp Hours (with voltage)
or WattHours (or Kilowatt hours) is.
If he means watt hours then that is different.
Anyway, a fridge running on 100 watt hours of electricity per day- (or 0.1 Kwh per day ie 0.1 "units" on a household electricity meter)....- I doubt it. Depending on the size of the compressor, that's equivalent to the compressor running less than an hour a day.
Great if true, but unlikely IMHO. Very, very unlikely!
Cheers

I went to the ATA website where the advertise the magazine, its in the current edition which I will try and buy today, though i suspect my average newsagent might not carry such product.

This is the relevant featureded article title:

"A fridge that uses 0.1kWh a day?
Tom Chalko tells us about his fridge conversion, which is the lowest energy user we have ever seen! "

Okay i went out at lunch and bought the magazine, should obviusly have done this in the first place.

This is a summary of what he did (and i don't necessarily know what it all means):

Bought a Vestfrost SE255 chest freezer with 600a refrigeratnt and a $40 battery-powered thermostat equipped with digital temp display and an internal 5A/240v latching relay. (he says the latching relay only uses battery power when switching on and off so with the thermostat working off AA batteries when the fridge is "off" it actually does not use any power.

A connection diagram is in the article but beyond my internet skills to replicate here.

Anyway, he put the thermistor cable inside the cooling compartment through the drain hole. He located it about the middle. Said the most time-consuming part was removing the thermistor from inside the thermostat - which he did by cutting it out from the circuit board with wire cutters. He protected the thermistor with shrink wrap tubing and silicone sealant.

He removed the 15w light, set the thermostat to 7C and switched on the AC power.

After two minutes the thermostat displayed 6.5C and the power was cut by the thermostat. Temp. continuted to drop to 4C.

He said in the first 24hours the "fridge", with goods transferred from his normal fridge, used 103Wh of energy, about 30% of which was used on start up.

He was in the hills in Victoria and acknowledges it is a fridge friendly place to be. Room temp. that day varied between 21C and 15C.

He said he measured energy use with his SparOmeter. Also said that first day the compressor was only operating for 90 seconds an hour.

The mag is called ReNew and is in most large newsagents, well 2 of the 3 which I went into in Brisbane city.

And hey, I'm not saying this is all right so any critical analysis very welcome, but I think i have put in here everything of consequence in the article.

Waz up mmainey,got a guilt problem dude?????

yep you bloody guessed it right Main man,I'm shakin in my boots shag!You sound like just another poor excuse of a small mans syndrome,nuff said here,cya