BCM Community

Bus Discussion => Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) => Topic started by: Slow Rider on February 01, 2011, 04:22:36 PM

Title: Super Efficient Refridgerator
Post by: Slow Rider on February 01, 2011, 04:22:36 PM
For those of you who like to boondock:

http://www.gizmag.com/true-energy-refrigerators-cool-for-ten-days-without-power/17739/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f35024730a-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email (http://www.gizmag.com/true-energy-refrigerators-cool-for-ten-days-without-power/17739/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f35024730a-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email)

http://www.trueenergy.com/default.aspx (http://www.trueenergy.com/default.aspx)

http://www.who.int/immunization_standards/vaccine_quality/pqs_e003_013_trueenergy_blf100ac.pdf (http://www.who.int/immunization_standards/vaccine_quality/pqs_e003_013_trueenergy_blf100ac.pdf)

A little rich for my blood but it is interesting.

Frank
Title: Re: Super Efficient Refridgerator
Post by: Iceni John on February 01, 2011, 07:24:21 PM
Interesting.

A much less expensive option for some may be a chest freezer used as a fridge:  http://www.mtbest.net/chest_fridge.html (http://www.mtbest.net/chest_fridge.html)   With an external thermostat, such as what homebrewers use, you can have a super-efficient "fridger" for about $200 total.   Running only a few minutes per hour means it will easily run off solar panels through an inverter.   I really like this idea, so I'll probably go this route when I start building my interior.

Someone on another bus conversion forum has a fridger that he has partitioned inside;  this allows him to have both frozen and chilled food in it.   Clever.

John