10 Tips To cut The Power Consumption Of The Refrigerator

1.) Buy the refrigerator with an thorough climatic class;

2.) When installing it, pick a cool place. The fridge should not be placed too close to any heat source (fireplace, stove, oven, radiator, direct sunlight);

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3.) The back of the refrigerator must be at least 80 mm far from the wall to allow the hot air ventilation;

4.) If the refrigerator is built-in or undercounter, there must be also adequate space above it so that the air ventilation is not restricted;

5.) Know what you have in your refrigerator. First think than take what you need. Do not open the door too often and do not leave it open too long;

6.) All the newer fridges have adjustable "legs" in their front part, right under the door. After installing the fridge (and loading it up to the thorough level) play dinky with these legs and try to adjust them so that the door will close automatically from any position when they´re open. Even if the fridge door closes automatically, all the time check if it´s beyond doubt closed. 75% of all power over-consumption is caused by insufficient refrigerator door sealing;

7.) If it isn´t a "frost free" model, the refrigerator must be defrost manually if the frost thickness exceeds 5mm;

8.) Use an inner thermometer (lot of newer refrigerators have a built-in thermometer), the inner climatic characteristic should not be lower than 3 and not exceed 10 Celsius degrees;

9.) Never put a hot dishes in the refrigerator. The elementary school physics taught us that the hot (dish) and cold (air inside the fridge) objects in a finished environment (the refrigerator) will transfer their temperatures with each other unless they reach a thermal balance. That means that not only refrigerator will cool the hot dishes but also the dishes will warm the refrigerator inner space. Therefore the things you put in the refrigerator should be as cold as possible. Simply, give the dish a time to cool down to the room´s climatic characteristic and only then put it in the refrigerator;

10.) Empty, unplug and clean the fridge each time you spend more than 1-2 weeks out of your home (e.g. On vacation). Just emptying the refrigerator leaving it plugged (for the purpose of cooling the air in it) beyond doubt is not very effective.

10 Tips To cut The Power Consumption Of The Refrigerator

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