Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Friday, March 23, 2012

Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Buyer Critiques

The EdgeStar has much to boast of: it is lightweight, very easy to carry and move, roomy, attractive, and versatile as both a refrigerator and (marginally) as a freezer. Setup is rather simple, and the price tag is wonderful. Strongly tainting this appliance on the other hand, is a thermostat dial which is either incompetently designed, incompetently calibrated, or each
Just before continuing, let's not fail to note the advertised description for this item: "Just turn the thermostat to pick the appropriate 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 1 way, it gets colder. Turn it the other way it gets warmer. We can deal with that. The markings on the dial bear witness to and confirm this elegant conception of appliance design:
regrigeration------ MIN......OFF.....MAX
freezing----------- MIN......Fascinating 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.five millimeter space 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 usually get are, in order:
20 (when dialed to "Min")
15 (when dialed to the left vertical line)
4 or 12 degrees (when in between the two vertical lines)
ten (when dialed to the perfect vertical line)
20 (when dialed to "Max).
Maybe the advertised degree capability is buried someplace inside the 1.5 mm space in between the two vertical lines, but right after various days of moving the dial minutely to the left or ideal, I'm unable to uncover it.
Also, right after reaching the coldest discernable temperature of 4 degrees when, it took me two days to acquire it once again when continuing my hunt for the elusive advertised degrees.
This is in particular frustrating since it takes about half a day or extra for a temperature adjust to be reached inside the freezer just after moving the thermostat dial -- and when you move it, you don't know for particular if you happen to be creating it colder or warmer.
Which is to say, this isn't a certain rapidly 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 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 using the tray bundled with this freezer.
To its credit, the EchoStar is fine as a refrigerator, and fine as a freezer as extended as you are not picky about hitting the the ordinarily advised degrees for frozen foods.
But sorry, it need to not require quite a few days to uncover the coldest temperature on a device by nudging a dial back and forth inside a space of a milimeter. And oddly enough, even without having the instruction booklet telling me to do so, I completely anticipate "Max" to be colder than "Min", and not be really situated at some microscopicly ambiguous point in between the two.
"Just turn the thermostat to select the appropriate temperature for your application!"
Yeah. Duh.

Just got this tiny beauty about 5:00pm currently and plugged it in shortly immediately after with freezer temp set to max and putting in a new Freezer thermometer. I read the post about defective temp manage, but saw that other individuals had 'no problem' so I played dumb and just cranked it up. Just as properly, as it is now 7:30pm and I heard the freezer pump go off. I looked in the door and the thermometer was at rock bottom minus 20 degrees. Wow am I happy. My key refrigerator freezer is set well adequate to preserve frozen foods at degrees and that is what I want this tiny model to do also. I turned the thermostatic control back a quarter turn to rest it between max and min on the freezer side. I'm thinking that it will now level out at zero.
How it operates was my first concern, so now that that is settled I can only also add what other people have said: It looks amazing!
It looks beautifully created and I will not be shocked to have this unit for quite a few years to come. I got it to hold frozen foods I take out of my primary refrigerator whilst I am thawing out my main refrigerator. I'll bet I commence cheating now and get started utilizing this small gem to horde my favored Ice Creams or stock up on meats or who knows what. A really great acquire at a really decent cost. I would highly advise to a buddy.

Item Description

Refrigerate or freeze in this compact freezer / refrigerator with full range thermostatic manage by EdgeStar. Plus, this compact freezer / refrigerator (model CRF150SS) attributes a correct stainless steel door- for uncommon style in a compact freezer / refrigerator. This 1.five cubic foot compact freezer also features a lock for added safety, energy-saving manual defrost, space-saving flush back design, and correct 0° freezing Undoubtedly the most beneficial feature of this compact freezer / refrigerator is the full range temperature manage. The complete unit can hold most temperatures from 0°F to 40°F. Just turn the thermostat to choose the suitable temperature for your application! Another good feature is the correct stainless steel doors. Coupled with the black trim and black cabinet, this is one particular of the most modern, most effective seeking compact freezer / refrigerator units accessible! Energy Guide Specifications: Estimated Yearly Operating Price of This Model: $24.64 Power Use (kWh/Year) Range of all Related 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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