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0 pointsScoundreller1y ago0 comments

From what I’ve seen, they’re usually marketed as “inverter fridges”.

And yeah, at least the fan turns off when you open the door, and I’d imagine if you put a bunch of ice into the fridge, it wouldn’t need to run at all for a while.

Meanwhile my local electric code (Ontario Canada) still requires a dedicated circuit for the fridge, which will now basically hum along at 1-2amps and never brownout/trip a circuit. What a waste.

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fomine31y ago

So we should just buy efficient inverter refrigerator, rather than add 48VDC.

ScoundrellerOP1y ago

At the end of the day, they’re going to (possibly transform the voltage), rectify and AC input into DC and chop it up to get variable-frequency drive.

I kinda wonder how low or high voltage it could run on out-of-the-box but there might be other stuff that runs off straight 120V (e.g. defrost cycle).

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