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Back in 2010, I stayed at a hotel in Berlin that had a Peltier type 'fridge'. It didn't do squat to make anything cold. Then again, the Germans don't do cold anyway, so I guess nobody over there cares.
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As far as I know warm beer is popular among Germans, I don't know about anything else though. Last edited by Jon A.; 11-14-2018 at 05:07 PM. |
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The manufactures recommend that the items placed in the fridge are cold to begin with, otherwise it's a long wait! |
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The small German fridges were always the "absorption" type, using ammonia as the refrigerant. They even used those in the bar-hi-fi combinations. It's a well-known fact that ammonia makes the best refrigerant but a little dangerous when it springs a leak. |
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I'd take a peltier "fridge" in a hotel room over a noisy compressor which stops me from sleeping.
Besides, if you really want your beer cold fast in a hotel, just raid the ice machine, fill up the bathroom sink with ice, and then top it up with cold water. Throw the beer in there, and it will be ice cold within 20 minutes. That's one of my travel "hacks" from 20 years of business trips, works every time. On the other hand, if you acquire a taste for warm beer, then more for you! |
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The refrigerated ones were a bit larger. I only seen pictures of one!
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The Peltier fridge has a cooling fan or two on the back, depending on the size. The small compressor in the mini-fridges are very quiet. |
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Compressor comes on, then goes off, then comes on, then goes off - that's what wakes me up. I can tell you 100% they aren't all very quiet, I've unplugged them in many hotel rooms at 2am, because I couldn't sleep. |
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To each their own. I sleep about six feet from the fridge, and well within earshot of the freezer, doesn't bother me at all. My A/C unit is louder but is rarely ran at night, and summer here is so nasty that the compressor runs almost constantly even at full power so its on/off cycles are a moot point for me anyway.
On a side note, I absolutely HATE the sound of the dishwasher. It's a cheap, modern Whirlpool that I believe is known for being particularly noisy. I can't replace it with anything of quality because it's provided by the building owners. I can even hear one going in a nearby unit occasionally. |
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They do bring in an appliance repair guy on occasion, and the maintenance guy fixes simple appliance problems i.e. our auto-destructing stove element, but when the fridge in our old unit crapped out it was simply replaced.
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Hotel fridges tend to be at least far enough away. The worst though, was a new Holiday Inn in Ohio I once stayed at. Ok, besides being in Ohio, the water was so stupidly soft that I took like 15 minutes to rise my hair off. And the heating/cooling unit in the room was this Amana heat pump thing that would start, run 5 minutes, shut off, then start 5 minutes later. Blower and everything. No setting to at least keep the blower on all the time (Go Energy Star!).
Didn't sleep at all that night. For noise, nothing beats a new Bosch dishwasher - the one my parents have is so quiet, when i visit them, I can never tell when it's on or not. More than once, it's done the end of cycle beep, and *that's* when I realize it was running... |
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I found one at a junk store for $20, They use the ancient system of "Adsorption" refrigeration. It is a closed system of ammonia, water and hydrogen. that cools without a motor. It is the same type as the old Servel gas fridges except instead of using heat from burning gas it uses a electrical heating element. It's maximum power consumption is 60w. It cools better than a Peltier yet it is even quieter. |
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