I have a 24 year old mini fridge that’s still alive and kicking. It’s a model that actually also has a freezer compartment.
I’ve been thinking about replacing it - especially since the freezer portion no longer works. But I was also curious how much more energy efficient fridge tech has gotten in the past 20 years? Like would I make up the cost of a new mini fridge pretty quickly based off the less power consumption?
I actually have one of those electricity monitors hooked up to it logging the data and I’m still kinda researching - but thought hey I’ll just ask c/nostupidquestions and maybe someone here might know right off the dome! Thanks in advance
Might be survivorship but might be some truth to it because now fridges almost always have a control board and a lot of appliances are built really stupidly nowadays. Bosch dishwasher E15 error for example, they put a sensor at the bottom to detect water because that’s where they stuffed the control module, so you can imagine what happens if it doesn’t drain as quickly as it does on day 1 🙃
Edit: but also fridge being outside shouldn’t impact a fridge, wall unit ACs and car ACs do that type of thing for 20+ years straight and the compressor is just like ‘whatev’