Kitchen

Upright freezer running watts and starting watts

Use these values as a planning range only. The conservative default for upright freezer is 180 W running and 1,000 W starting.

Load typeLowDefaultHigh
Running watts100 W180 W600 W
Starting watts500 W1,000 W1,800 W

Source note

DOE refrigerator/freezer energy references and common nameplate ranges; default assumes a separate upright freezer with compressor start surge.

Source reference

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