New Samsung Inverter Fridge

simmtron

Well just picked up a new Samsung inverter fridge for $320 to use in our new off grid house. We are finally moving out of the motor home into new house in the jungle so needed a fridge. To order a Dometic here in Mexico it would be $1700 so it was a no brainier. It leaves me with $1380 to buy more panels and batteries. And no more LP bills. It's only 12 CF but that's still 40% bigger than a Dometic. 310 kwh per year.

simmtron

Well plugged it in and have my Kill-a-Watt meter hooked up. Started out at 11 watts then jumped to 32 watts  then 55 watts now leveled off at 130 watts. This is from hot so I'll see how long it takes to cool down. After 10 minutes the freezer was already quite cold.

Johann

simmtron said:

Well just picked up a new Samsung inverter fridge for $320 to use in our new off grid house. We are finally moving out of the motor home into new house in the jungle so needed a fridge. To order a Dometic here in Mexico it would be $1700 so it was a no brainier. It leaves me with $1380 to buy more panels and batteries. And no more LP bills. It's only 12 CF but that's still 40% bigger than a Dometic. 310 kwh per year.

Would you have a link,so i could look at the data?

simmtron

What data would you be interested in? It is a model RT29FARLDSP  Or RT29F . The later numbers are just differences from countries, I think.

petertearai

I have the 340 l model . been going for a year and a  half . Pleased with it .

simmtron

It was interesting in doing research on fridges, I was looking at Sun Frost  fridges 110 volt and although they are super expensive $3300us, they are now no more efficient than A store bought fridge.

animatt

My wife suprised me and got a similar fridge. She went shopping for a refrigerator and came back with the inverter refrigerator.   At the time was I believe around $500 usd. I am also in mexico. Exchange rate was not as good as it is now.

Just found old post.  Over 2 years old. No problems other than too small
Http://forum.solar-electric.com/discussion/comment/307046#Comment_307046

simmtron

Thing about the size of a fridge, doesn't matter what the size you will always overfill them.

simmtron

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Where in Mexico are you?

animatt

Was in quintana roo.  But last few years in the yucatan.  Starting a small off grid ranch. Hopefully live there with in a year.  Like you probably know everything takes forever. Feels like a never ending money pit. But this upcoming year hopefully costs are covered by income. 

simmtron

In Quintana Roo outside Playa.

706jim

Does this run ok on modified sine power?

simmtron

706jim said:

Does this run ok on modified sine power?

Don't know, I have a sine wave inverter . I wouldn't think so though.

mike95490

If a gadget cost's more than $80, I would only run it off a pure sine inverter

Desert Rat

Simmtron, have you measured kilowatt hours/day? And at what ambient temperature?

simmtron

Desert Rat said:

Simmtron, have you measured kilowatt hours/day? And at what ambient temperature?

roughly, as I don't use it yet , I have it on the patio until house is done and had it running for 3 days. Average temp here is about 92-94 during the day and down to mid low 80's during night. I had my Kill a Watt hooked up and over the 3 days it used 4.2 KWH. This is with the fridge empty other than the workers building the house putting warm water in he freezer everyday. So not real world results. I will redo once I have the fridge in the house and full without warm water going in the freezer everyday . Even overnight my batteries never went below 12.6 volts.