Energy Consumption is what I am concerned about. In the future I will be using it Off Grid from Solar Panels and Batteries The Panels I can add as needed. The Batteries I can Not easily add and I really do not want to run a generator all night long during the Cycles of the Freeze Dryer.
When we were researching food storage I came across a video where some folks hooked their Harvest Right to a Kill-O-Watt meter to measure energy consumption during a complete cycle with their medium size drier packed with all trays loaded.
They used 14 kWh to do an entire cycle, and this was over a 26 hour period....so the usage is spread out which is good....gives us off gridders time to generate more electrons.
Here is the video. Go to 9:45 if you are only interested in the electricity usage. But they do go into cost comparisons and taste tests in the video. FYI, they used $1.40 of grid electricity to do an entire batch. They go into detail on the costs later in the video.
Last edited by Tarbe; 10/20/22.
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