nmAt 12:01 AM 9/13/2012, neil n wrote: >On the internet, there appears to be lots of hype, opinion and >conjecture about the Sawafuji or Danfoss compressor fridges, and the >amount of amps each consumes. i.e. Engel VS Waeco. I know fridge >power consumption has been discussed here before but it seems to me >that there's too many variables. Looking at this from another POV.... It might help to get some terminology straight. Amperes is an instantaneous measurement of the current flowing through the system right now - it's a rate, not an amount. Multiply amps x volts to get watts, the instantaneous rate of energy consumption. Integrate amperes over time and you get ampere-hours, a partial measure of energy consumption. A more accurate measure is watt-hours, which takes the changing battery voltage into account; but it's more difficult to measure.
>If a Sawafuji and Danfoss powered fridge were wired to be manually >switched on/off at 15 minute intervals, (bypass thermostat) and each >had the same test conditions, which fridge would consume [fewer amp-hours]?
>It seems that in terms of current draw to "power up" either of these >compressors, the Sawafuji may have the advantage. Is that advantage >significant enough to make it the winner? |
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