[Vanhackspace] digital refrigerator control?

[Mike Pountney]

I wonder whether some of the Arduino/PID coffee machine hacks would  
apply here, basically replacing a cheap thermostat with a PID  
controller and digital temperature sensor. The coffee hacks are about  
using a solid state relay to quickly turn off and on a boiler (rather  
than heating in long heat, wait, heat, cycles that a thermostat  
creates), potentially the same thing could be tuned for a fridge  
motor? See http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/CoffeeTronics for  
detail.

Pure speculation btw, i'm a total newb to all this.


On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:06, John Howard wrote:

> An interesting 'fridge hack I'd like to see is to wire a digital  
> switch
> into the temperature sensor and motor controller so as to provide a  
> way
> to manage energy consumption. The goal would be to trade-off  
> temperature
> with energy consumption during network-defined periods.
>
> Anyone seen this done yet?
>
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