[Greenbuilding] fridges and freezers

[Doug Kalmer]

External condenser coils may start out more efficient, but they gathered dust, and folks didn't clean them, making them less efficient. Also some used condenser coils with fans, drawing power. Better insulation and coils in the external sheet metal is probably more efficient than dirty or fan forced coils. Doug

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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Ross Elliott wrote:
>     It IS rather baffling, though, why most fridges and freezers allow their
>     coils to "reheat" the box they're trying to cool because they're hidden
>     inside the sheet metal shell for protection; coils should be fully
>     exposed like they used to be.

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