#Industry News
The EXTRCOOL Inverter Cold Room Retrofit, Lower Cost for the Rented Storage Business
Rent Leaves No Room to Raise, So Profit Comes From the Bill: How Two 5HP Inverters and 4G Remote Turned a 105m³ Rental Room Around
The EXTRCOOL team returned to a southern producing region for a full inspection of units installed last year and the start of retrofit work on other aging rooms, and the first test room is a 105-cubic-meter rental cold storage running two EXTRCOOL 5-horsepower inverter units, currently holding seasonal chestnuts. For a rental cold room profit structure is clear: rent follows the market with little room to raise, so profitability comes down to electricity and maintenance, and the old fixed-speed units ran near full power whatever the load with electric defrost adding bills far above normal running levels. The new units cover a minus-20-to-plus-40-degree band so one season stores chestnuts and the next switches products without re-selection, twin-unit coordinated control runs both machines for fast pull-down at peak intake and drops one out at low load, and three technologies cut cost systematically: AI inverter holds the room within ±0.5 degrees with annual cost down 30 percent, hot-gas defrost runs each cycle under six minutes at a fraction of the electric-defrost energy, and 4G remote control lets the owner view the temperature curve and switch units from the phone with abnormal data alerting automatically. EXTRCOOL provides variable-frequency cold storage solutions.