Stop appliance genocide

[DavGoodlin]

I did a power check of some various flat-screens:

Philips 50" LCD 2006- 448 watts steady
Panasonic 42" Plasma 2004 - 220 watts varies
Panasonic 37" LCD 2009- 64 watts steady
Samsung 50" LED 2010- in progress

Based on what LED does for exterior lighting energy use versus metal halide and high-pressure sodium, I expect it to be low.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Philips 50" LCD 2006- 448 watts steady

That seems high. Does it have a backlight level setting?

My 2008 Sony 40" LCD has 1-5 backlight setting in the menu. 1 is lowest about 80 Watts, 5 highest, about 220 Watts. I set it to 3 90-95 Watts as measured with a Kill A Watt meter.

[truetone36]

Got my '57 G.E. defrosting as I type this. It's in the kitchen instead of being the storage frige now that it's outlasted 3 new ones.

[Ed in Tx]

Brings back memories... I remember growing up with a 1951 or so Frigidaire and my mother taking everything out of it every few weeks to defrost it. And the thick frost buildup. Break a chunk off and eat it like a snow cone... !

[bgadow]

Was visiting my mother a few weeks ago and she was excited, they had just gotten rid of the 80s era refrigerator in the basement. The power company took it in on their new program where they pay $50 for any old working unit. 2 men came by and loaded it in a truck.

[DavGoodlin]

Nice Crosley! Every time I see an old refrigerator on ebay, asking at least $500

[bgk283]

Thanks Dave, got it last year off craigslist for $50 bucks. it was in the basement of Japanese immigrants who couldnt lift it so it stayed down there for the 38 years that they owned the house, got it home ,put a new cord on it, and, ice cold. Amazing whats still out there...

[Einar72]

I have a freind who has had one for ages. You need to get a matching Crosley white-pained radio to go on top like he has!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Crosley-...item3a79200268

As a former owner of a side-by-side, I can personally attest to the energy-sucking habits of those Mullion heaters. How do we know when a Mullion gets too cold, anyway? Do they complain or something?

[Kamakiri]

My '53 Norge is still keeping the milk cold . I rescued it through a metal scrapper friend of mine. I used to give him all my worn out snowblower carcasses, and he asked me if there's anything I'd like. I said, as a matter of fact, if you ever come across and old fridge.....and 3 days later he called me about this one. It's in perfect shape, and hadn't been in use since the early 1960s. The old couple had passed, and the kids just wanted it gone as they were preparing their house for sale....

Pictures after a very good cleanup, and having it plugged in in the garage to make sure everything was up to snuff. Had it running for 2 weeks, then sold my 6 year old Kenmore fridge and moved it in the house....





Here she is, two years later, still working flawlessly in my kitchen

[bgk283]

i am seriously amused at whatever it is we do here, your kitchen shots are great, and im laughing because it is so similiar to mine and,i bet, alot of other peoples, that are here. Got to love the old Norge...

[Jeffhs]

When I was growing up, we had a Gibson freezer in the basement. That thing lasted, IIRC, some 40-50 years, then finally quit some time in the early 1990s. As far as refrigerators go, we had several that I can remember -- my earliest memories of fridges in our house are of a small one in our kitchen, made by a company called "Leonard". I don't know a thing about that company, whether it was a house brand of a department store chain in the '50s or what, but that refrigerator lasted for us through the '50s into the '60s, IIRC. That refrigerator was replaced by a Sears Coldspot that lasted until 1972, then replaced by yet another Sears CS. The latter kept going for many years, but was removed (I'm not sure if it was trashed) when the house was sold (long story/OT) in the late 1990s.

If it was trashed, I would have been surprised (I don't know if it was or not, since I wasn't there when the house was being readied for sale -- I was temporarily "living" in a motel in the next town at the time, then moved to my apartment 2 weeks later), as that fridge was like the old Eveready Energizer batteries -- it kept going and going and going . . .

Just goes to show how much better everything was built decades ago. The fridge currently in my apartment is a Frigidaire, which replaced an old beat-up one that was in the apartment when I moved in. The old one quit within a couple of years, so the landlord replaced it with the current Frigidaire -- but who knows how long the latter will last? It's been here some time, probably at least eight or nine years, and still runs, but for how long is anyone's guess.

[AUdubon5425]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

... my earliest memories of fridges in our house are of a small one in our kitchen, made by a company called "Leonard". I don't know a thing about that company, whether it was a house brand of a department store chain in the '50s or what, but that refrigerator lasted for us through the '50s into the '60s...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_%28appliances%29

http://southernclassic.tripod.com/id2.html

[DavGoodlin]

Great Kitchen stove also! That sunbeam mixer is another survivor I see.

Mine is from 1959 and needed a GROUNDED cord, switch cleaned and works great. I got it from my mom, who then got my grandmothers 1956 Hobart that was in a kitchen cabinet on a built-in swing out table, I converted it to counter top.

I also have a silver one with a bad switch for parts.

[bgadow]

Here is an International Harvester refrigerator that the local appliance store keeps on display in its window:

The guys over on the IH truck forums (binderplanet) like to collect these but this guy won't sell.

[Electronic M]

Someone who had an estate sale near me had an international Harvester floor chest style freezer or fridge from the 50's that was the size of a large upright model. It was so weird that if I had money, room, and knowledge enough to fix it I might have bought it just to have the oddest old chest I've seen. I hope it was not trashed.