Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Customer Critiques

The EdgeStar has much to boast of: it is lightweight, painless to carry and move, roomy, desirable, and versatile as both a refrigerator and (marginally) as a freezer. Setup is rather simple, and the cost is wonderful. Strongly tainting this appliance nevertheless, is a thermostat dial which is either incompetently designed, incompetently calibrated, or each
Ahead of continuing, let's not fail to note the advertised description for this item: "Just turn the thermostat to pick the suitable temperature for your application!"
Falling with equal snugness on the Issues 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 common, 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 handle that. The markings on the dial bear witness to and confirm this sophisticated conception of appliance design......MAX
Fascinating then, that in practice there is no temperature modify in the freezer when dialed to "MIN", or dialed to "MAX". I measure each at a steady 20 degrees.
With some playing, a single discovers that colder temperatures are accomplished, erratically, within the petite 1.five millimeter space in between the two vertical lines separating "Min" and "Max".
Moving counter clockwise per directions along the dial following the arrow marked "Freezer", the temperatures I commonly get are, in order:
20 (when dialed to "Min")
15 (when dialed to the left vertical line)
four or 12 degrees (when among the two vertical lines)
10 (when dialed to the perfect vertical line)
20 (when dialed to "Max).
Possibly the advertised degree capability is buried someplace inside the 1.five mm space among the two vertical lines, but right after a lot of days of moving the dial minutely to the left or appropriate, I'm unable to come across it.
Additionally, right after reaching the coldest discernable temperature of 4 degrees as soon as, it took me 2 days to discover it once more whilst continuing my hunt for the elusive advertised degrees.
This is in particular frustrating considering the fact that it takes about half a day or even more for a temperature change to be reached inside the freezer right after moving the thermostat dial -- and when you move it, you don't know for specific if you happen to be producing it colder or warmer.
Which is to say, this isn't a particular quick 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 2 hours immediately after turning it on. That appears wildly optimistic to me. In practice, it takes roughly 5 hours to freeze undersized 1" ice cubes from power-up employing the tray bundled with this freezer.
To its credit, the EchoStar is fine as a refrigerator, and fine as a freezer as long as you aren't picky about hitting the the commonly advised degrees for frozen foods.
But sorry, it ought to not need a few days to discover the coldest temperature on a device by nudging a dial back and forth within a space of a milimeter. And oddly enough, even with out the instruction booklet telling me to do so, I totally count on "Max" to be colder than "Min", and not be really positioned at some microscopicly ambiguous point among the two.
"Just turn the thermostat to choose the proper temperature for your application!"
Yeah. Duh.

I was concerned when I ordered this item based on other feedback. I let the freezer sit for a couple hours following 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 immediately after unplugging camper it took six hours for the ice cubes to melt.

Item Description

Refrigerate or freeze in this compact freezer / refrigerator with complete range thermostatic control by EdgeStar. Plus, this compact freezer / refrigerator (model CRF150SS) features a correct stainless steel door- for uncommon style in a compact freezer / refrigerator. This 1.five cubic foot compact freezer also characteristics a lock for added security, power-saving manual defrost, space-saving flush back design, and true 0° freezing Undoubtedly the preferred feature of this compact freezer / refrigerator is the complete range temperature control. The entire unit can hold most temperatures from 0°F to 40°F. Just turn the thermostat to choose the appropriate temperature for your application! An additional amazing feature is the correct stainless steel doors. Coupled with the black trim and black cabinet, this is a single of the most modern day, very best searching compact freezer / refrigerator units available! Power Guide Specifications: Estimated Yearly Operating Cost of This Model: $24.64 Energy Use (kWh/Year) Range of all Equivalent Models: 280kWh - 320kWh Estimated Yearly Electrical energy 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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