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Title: fridge freezer
Post by robo on Dec 28^th, 2011 at 4:47pm

hi everyone, hope you all had a good christmas
one of the things i have to sort when i come over in February is a fridge with a small freezer, i have read a few articless on fridges and solar power, is it feasiblee to run a fridge freezer on solar power or do i have to get a propane one which as far as i know do use a lot of propane, we only have a small set up at present but i am looking for a bigger inverter i have seen a 1500 watt inverter that i am interested in would this be suitable
cheers dave

Title: Re: fridge freezer
Post by adrienne on Dec 28^th, 2011 at 4:59pm

Hi.
I'd go for the electric one. We got a gas fridge when we first moved over here as we only had the jenny, but when we got solar panels (6panels) we changed to electric and are now running 2 half and half fridge freezers on solar

Title: Re: fridge freezer
Post by Nobrot on Dec 28^th, 2011 at 8:37pm

adrienne wrote on Dec 28^th, 2011 at 4:59pm:

As long as you have a decent solar set up and buy an A+ or A++ fridge freezer,you should hardly notice the consumption

Title: Re: fridge freezer
Post by Nigel on Dec 28^th, 2011 at 10:23pm

Just make ABSOLUTELY sure the inverter is PURE SINEWAVE else you'll see a puff of smoke from your fridge, possibly hear a bang and it will stop working - possibly in as few as 30 seconds or less....