Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Buyer Evaluations

The EdgeStar has considerably to boast of: it is lightweight, simple to carry and move, roomy, desirable, and versatile as both a refrigerator and (marginally) as a freezer. Setup is simple, and the price is excellent. Strongly tainting this appliance on the other hand, 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 choose the proper 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 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 style:
regrigeration------ MIN......OFF.....MAX
freezing----------- MIN......Exciting then, that in practice there is no temperature alter in the freezer when dialed to "MIN", or dialed to "MAX". I measure both at a steady 20 degrees.
With some playing, one discovers that colder temperatures are accomplished, erratically, within the petite 1.five millimeter space amongst the two vertical lines separating "Min" and "Max".
Moving counter clockwise per instructions along the dial after the arrow marked "Freezer", the temperatures I normally get are, in order:
20 (when dialed to "Min")
15 (when dialed to the left vertical line)
4 or 12 degrees (when between the two vertical lines)
ten (when dialed to the appropriate vertical line)
20 (when dialed to "Max).
Perhaps the advertised degree capability is buried someplace within the 1.5 mm space amongst the two vertical lines, but after several days of moving the dial minutely to the left or correct, I am unable to obtain it.
Furthermore, right after reaching the coldest discernable temperature of four degrees as soon as, it took me two days to locate it once again while continuing my hunt for the elusive advertised degrees.
This is primarily frustrating given that it takes about half a day or alot more 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 specific if you're generating it colder or warmer.
Which is to say, this isn't a certain speedy appliance: The manual recommends not introducing frozen food to the freezer until it is been turned to the coldest setting (wherever that is) for at least 2 hours soon after turning it on. That seems wildly optimistic to me. In practice, it takes roughly 5 hours to freeze undersized 1" ice cubes from power-up making use of the tray bundled with this freezer.
To its credit, the EchoStar is fine as a refrigerator, and fine as a freezer as lengthy as you are not picky about hitting the the usually suggested degrees for frozen foods.
But sorry, it will need to not demand a variety of days to come across the coldest temperature on a device by nudging a dial back and forth inside a space of a milimeter. And oddly enough, even with out the instruction booklet telling me to do so, I completely expect "Max" to be colder than "Min", and not be basically situated at some microscopicly ambiguous point among the two.
"Just turn the thermostat to pick the suitable temperature for your application!"
Yeah. Duh.

Just got this small beauty around 5:00pm at present and plugged it in shortly soon after with freezer temp set to max and placing in a new Freezer thermometer. I read the post about defective temp control, but saw that others 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 nicely adequate to keep frozen foods at degrees and that's what I want this small model to do also. I turned the thermostatic manage back a quarter turn to rest it amongst max and min on the freezer side. I'm thinking that it will now level out at zero.
How it works was my first concern, so now that that is settled I can only also add what others have said: It looks terrific!
It looks beautifully produced and I will not be surprised to have this unit for several years to come. I got it to hold frozen foods I take out of my principal refrigerator when I am thawing out my major refrigerator. I will bet I commence cheating now and start using this little gem to horde my favorite Ice Creams or stock up on meats or who knows what. A pretty good invest in at a incredibly beneficial price tag. I would very advise to a friend.

Product Description

Refrigerate or freeze in this compact freezer / refrigerator with full range thermostatic control by EdgeStar. Plus, this compact freezer / refrigerator (model CRF150SS) functions 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, power-saving manual defrost, space-saving flush back style, and correct 0° freezing Undoubtedly the very best function 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 select the suitable temperature for your application! One more great feature is the correct stainless steel doors. Coupled with the black trim and black cabinet, this is one of the most modern, greatest seeking compact freezer / refrigerator units attainable! Energy Guide Specifications: Estimated Yearly Operating Price of This Model: $24.64 Energy Use (kWh/Year) Range of all Equivalent 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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Compact Refrigerator With Lock