Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Client Evaluations

The EdgeStar has much to boast of: it is lightweight, quick to carry and move, roomy, attractive, and versatile as each a refrigerator and (marginally) as a freezer. Setup is basic, and the price is terrific. Strongly tainting this appliance however, is a thermostat dial which is either incompetently designed, incompetently calibrated, or each
Prior to continuing, let's not fail to note the advertised description for this product: "Just turn the thermostat to select the proper temperature for your application!"
Falling with equal snugness on the Things That Make You Go Duh list is the instruction manual telling us that "The knob has markings to indicate the relative temperature settings, but in general, turning the knob counter-clockwise corresponds to colder temperatures."
So if we turn the dial a single way, it gets colder. Turn it the other way it gets warmer. We can manage that. The markings on the dial bear witness to and confirm this elegant conception of appliance style:
regrigeration------ MIN......OFF.....MAX
freezing----------- MIN......Interesting then, that in practice there is no temperature change in the freezer when dialed to "MIN", or dialed to "MAX". I measure each at a steady 20 degrees.
With some playing, 1 discovers that colder temperatures are accomplished, erratically, within the petite 1.5 millimeter space amongst the two vertical lines separating "Min" and "Max".
Moving counter clockwise per directions along the dial just after the arrow marked "Freezer", the temperatures I usually get are, in order:
20 (when dialed to "Min")
15 (when dialed to the left vertical line)
4 or 12 degrees (when amongst the two vertical lines)
10 (when dialed to the perfect vertical line)
20 (when dialed to "Max).
Maybe the advertised degree capability is buried someplace within the 1.five mm space amongst the two vertical lines, but right after a variety of days of moving the dial minutely to the left or suitable, I am unable to find it.
Furthermore, right after reaching the coldest discernable temperature of 4 degrees as soon as, it took me two days to find it again although continuing my hunt for the elusive advertised degrees.
This is primarily frustrating given that it takes about half a day or significantly more for a temperature modify to be reached within the freezer following moving the thermostat dial -- and when you move it, you do not know for specific if you happen to be making it colder or warmer.
Which is to say, this is not a distinct fast appliance: The manual recommends not introducing frozen food to the freezer till it is been turned to the coldest setting (wherever that is) for at least two hours after turning it on. That appears wildly optimistic to me. In practice, it takes roughly five hours to freeze undersized 1" ice cubes from power-up using the tray bundled with this freezer.
To its credit, the EchoStar is fine as a refrigerator, and fine as a freezer as lengthy as you aren't picky about hitting the the commonly suggested degrees for frozen foods.
But sorry, it really should not call for several days to locate the coldest temperature on a device by nudging a dial back and forth within a space of a milimeter. And oddly sufficient, even without the need of the instruction booklet telling me to do so, I totally count on "Max" to be colder than "Min", and not be essentially situated at some microscopicly ambiguous point in between the two.
"Just turn the thermostat to select the suitable temperature for your application!"
Yeah. Duh.

I was concerned when I ordered this product based on other feedback. I let the freezer sit for a couple hours soon after unpacking. I turned it on and set to max freeze and placed an icecube tray inside. It took 75 minutes for the water to freeze. We took it camping with us and just after unplugging camper it took six hours for the ice cubes to melt.

Product Description

Refrigerate or freeze in this compact freezer / refrigerator with complete range thermostatic control by EdgeStar. Plus, this compact freezer / refrigerator (model CRF150SS) functions a accurate stainless steel door- for uncommon style in a compact freezer / refrigerator. This 1.five cubic foot compact freezer also functions a lock for added safety, power-saving manual defrost, space-saving flush back style, and accurate 0° freezing Undoubtedly the preferred feature of this compact freezer / refrigerator is the full range temperature control. The entire unit can hold most temperatures from 0°F to 40°F. Just turn the thermostat to pick the proper temperature for your application! Yet another terrific feature is the correct stainless steel doors. Coupled with the black trim and black cabinet, this is one particular of the most contemporary, best seeking compact freezer / refrigerator units offered! Energy Guide Specifications: Estimated Yearly Operating Price of This Model: $24.64 Power Use (kWh/Year) Range of all Similar Models: 280kWh - 320kWh Estimated Yearly Electricity Use: 272 kWh/Year

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Product Details

Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 18.5 x 19.5 inches ; 49 pounds
Shipping Weight: 65 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
ASIN: B000RHWT3M
Item model number: CRF150SS

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