Converting a chest freezer to a fridge

Great for turning a chest freezer into a keg refrigerator. I have had a freezer and converted fridge running though Kill-a-Watt meters for about a month. Refrigerators are, despite advances in their design, terribly inefficient.

Every time you open the door, the cold air comes cascading right out onto . I have converted both new and ol upright and chest , small and large freezers into highly energy efficient refrigerators using this simple . There are two ways to go about converting a chest freezer into a chest fridge.

The first is to swap the fitted thermostatic temperature controller with one designed . My chest fridge conversion uses an average of only watts, down from 1watts (peak of 224), a percent reduction of electricity use. We use a temperature controller to turn our chest freezer into a fridge during the summer months. My controller operates in Celsius, so fridge temp is degrees.

An inexpensive and easy DIY way to convert any chest freezer into a chest refrigerator is to use an external thermostat with a remote sensor. Why a chest freezer you ask? Freezer-to- fridge conversion.

I have been thinking of adding a solar back-up system for some time now. I have looked at the many options out there and think I am about ready to take the .

Carl describes the simple conversion he did on his chest freezer to turn it into a very efficient refrigerator. The conversion only costs $7 is very . I first read about this in Renew magazine (I think) many years ago, along with this article about a chest fridge that captured my imagination. So I revisited my old idea of building a thermostat - and ran across the Mt. Best site about a chest freezer to fridge conversion (linked from ). Basically it shuts down the cooling motor when the set temperature . This is why chest freezers can be converted into super-efficient refrigerators. You may wonder how efficient the resulting fridge is.

How a standard chest freezer can be converted into an energy efficient refrigerator that is suitable for off grid use. Earlier this year when Dave showed us a peek inside his fridge I mentioned that I would be converting a chest freezer into an energy efficient . Have had two freezers and a converted fridge running with these mods, . Can someone give me an idea of how much electricity it is goin. I bought a well-designed chest freezer.

Vestfrost SE2chest freezer with 600a refrigerant) and converted it into a fridge. Converting chest freezer into fridge. I believe I have seen actual “chest refrigerators ” for sale on occasion.

So I pulled the trigger on an old chest freezer I found on craigslist. I converted a chest freezer (because I had one available) to a kegerator .

My plan as of now is to convert it into a . Tom Chalko converts an old chest freezer into a super.