We have a beer keg refrigerator ("kegerator") in our meeting space, and one of our fine directors has installed a power on/off timer on the outlet the refrigerator is connected to. He has this timer run on a cycle of 3 hours on, 1 hour off. Effectively, this means there is sometimes warm beer. He claims that is a justifiable annoyance for the energy (and money) the timer will save us.
I tend to think the effect averages out to the same cost with or without the timer, as the refrigerator has to run the compressor for longer after that hour off, in order to exchange out the heat that has accumulated. Whereas if it were constantly powered on, especially with the keg retaining the cold liquid, it would cost very little energy to keep it cold.
If I am right, I am going to need a reputable source to back myself up in order to convince him to remove the timer. Something as simple as a "way things work"-type article would suffice, but I cannot find any that are specific to this question.
Submitted August 07, 2015 at 07:52PM by vagittarius http://ift.tt/1NeREeS refrigeration
No comments:
Post a Comment