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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by inferiorhuman on Sunday August 14, 2022 @06:40PM (#32463779)
You'd have to stick an ammeter on it, but I bet a 50s fridge is pretty efficient because they are manual defrost only. Most modern full-size fridges are auto defrost – essentially they suck down electricity to heat up the cooling system. The efficiency gains over a couple decades ago are due to moving from fixed, mechanical timers to computer controlled adaptive defrosters.
Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by gruez on Sunday August 14, 2022 @07:24PM (#32464136)
>I bet a 50s fridge is pretty efficient because they are manual defrost only

That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. It's like saying a bike is "pretty efficient" compared to an e-bike because it doesn't consume any energy (infinite efficiency!)