My fridge does not run from battery at all, only when the sun is shining. It's computer controlled and quite complex, so for more about how it works, see fridge 0.1 and fridge 0.2.

My offgrid, solar powered, zero-battery-use fridge has sucessfully made it through spring, summer, fall, and more than enough winter.

I'm preparing for a fridge upgrade, away from the tiny propane fridge to a chest freezer conversion. My home computer will be monitoring the fridge temperature and the state of my offgrid energy system, …

* Main fridge temp is being measured in the warmest area, near the top. The water temp is a thermal mass of 17 gallons of water. Javascript needed for this page to work infrequently collected data back …

How about a fridge powered entirely by solar panels without the powerwall? Zero battery use, and yet it still preserves your food.

Fridge0 is a design for an offgrid, solar powered fridge

I'm live coding my fridge, with that goal in mind. You can follow along in this design thread on secure scuttlebutt, and my git commits, and you can watch real-time data from my fridge.

The code for my fridge is a work in progress since the fridge has not arrived yet, and because the question of in which situations an offgrid fridge should optimally run and not run is really rather …

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Ditch digging. With my offgrid fridge project, things are feeling interdisciplinary in ways my work has not been before. From here at its end, this decade feels both inevitable and highly unlikely. Now I feel.. …