Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Friday, March 23, 2012

Compact Freezer Refrigerator with Lock - Stainless Steel

Customer Evaluations

The EdgeStar has considerably to boast of: it is lightweight, simple and easy to carry and move, roomy, attractive, and versatile as both a refrigerator and (marginally) as a freezer. Setup is hassle-free, and the price tag is exceptional. Strongly tainting this appliance yet, is a thermostat dial which is either incompetently designed, incompetently calibrated, or both
Prior to continuing, let's not fail to note the advertised description for this item: "Just turn the thermostat to select the suitable temperature for your application!"
Falling with equal snugness on the Items 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 one particular 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:
regrigeration------ MIN......OFF.....MAX
freezing----------- MIN......Fascinating then, that in practice there is no temperature adjust 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, inside the petite 1.5 millimeter space in between the two vertical lines separating "Min" and "Max".
Moving counter clockwise per instructions along the dial immediately after the arrow marked "Freezer", the temperatures I ordinarily 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 right vertical line)
20 (when dialed to "Max).
Perhaps the advertised degree capability is buried someplace within the 1.five mm space in between the two vertical lines, but following numerous days of moving the dial minutely to the left or ideal, I'm unable to discover it.
Moreover, just after reaching the coldest discernable temperature of four degrees when, it took me 2 days to obtain it once again even though continuing my hunt for the elusive advertised degrees.
This is primarily frustrating given that it takes about half a day or additional for a temperature change to be reached inside the freezer after moving the thermostat dial -- and when you move it, you don't know for certain if you're making it colder or warmer.
Which is to say, this is not a certain rapidly 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 right 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 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 usually suggested degrees for frozen foods.
But sorry, it must not require numerous days to get the coldest temperature on a device by nudging a dial back and forth inside a space of a milimeter. And oddly sufficient, even without the need of the instruction booklet telling me to do so, I totally count on "Max" to be colder than "Min", and not be truly positioned at some microscopicly ambiguous point in between the two.
"Just turn the thermostat to pick the proper temperature for your application!"
Yeah. Duh.

Just got this little beauty around five:00pm today and plugged it in shortly just 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 nicely, 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 pleased. My principal refrigerator freezer is set well enough to keep frozen foods at degrees and that's what I want this little model to do also. I turned the thermostatic control 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 operates was my very first concern, so now that that is settled I can only also add what other individuals have mentioned: It looks fantastic!
It looks beautifully produced and I will not be surprised to have this unit for numerous years to come. I got it to hold frozen foods I take out of my major refrigerator while I am thawing out my primary refrigerator. I'll bet I commence cheating now and commence implementing this small gem to horde my favored Ice Creams or stock up on meats or who knows what. A really good purchase at a pretty beneficial cost. I would very suggest to a buddy.

Product Description

Refrigerate or freeze in this compact freezer / refrigerator with full range thermostatic control by EdgeStar. Plus, this compact freezer / refrigerator (model CRF150SS) capabilities a true stainless steel door- for uncommon style in a compact freezer / refrigerator. This 1.five cubic foot compact freezer also features a lock for added security, power-saving manual defrost, space-saving flush back style, and true 0° freezing Undoubtedly the most beneficial function of this compact freezer / refrigerator is the complete range temperature manage. The entire unit can hold most temperatures from 0°F to 40°F. Just turn the thermostat to pick the proper temperature for your application! Yet another terrific function is the accurate stainless steel doors. Coupled with the black trim and black cabinet, this is 1 of the most modern day, ideal searching compact freezer / refrigerator units attainable! Energy Guide Specifications: Estimated Yearly Operating Expense of This Model: $24.64 Power 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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