Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote in
:

> Goomba wrote:
>>On 12/26/11 11:40 AM, KenK wrote:
>>> Last August I replaced my failing refrigerator with a new Kenmore.
>>> All the many years I had the old refrigerator the freezer temp was a
>>> bit below 0, until its last few weeks. The new Kenmore was also, the
>>> first three or four months. Then it suddenly changed to + 4 to + 7
>>> or so with the analog freezer thermometer. I called warranty repair
>>> and the repair guy checked it out and said it was normal. I was
>>> doubtful. I bought an additional thermometer, a $10 digital freezer
>>> thermometer. Then, last Saturday, the temp suddenly went up to +17.
>>> It seemed to go up to 17 or so, then the cooling would come on and
>>> reduce it to around 0, then with the cooling function off it would
>>> go back to 17, slowly, over and over. I think it is a defective
>>> freezer thermostat, or don't they work that way anymore? I called
>>> for service again Saturday, which will come this Wednesday. How can
>>> I convince this service person this time that I really have
>>> defective freezer function so it gets properly repaired? I'm afraid
>>> the next temperature change, or the one after, will be to above
>>> freezing. These Sears repair guys work on all the appliances and
>>> perhaps understand none of them really well.
>>>
>>> Or am I wrong and this is within normal freezer operation
>>> parameters? BTW. the non-freezer portion of the refrigerator has,
>>> according to an old analog thermometer, remained normal.
>>
>>Was it going through an automatic defrost cycle? My understanding is
>>that rising temps (still low though) are how self defrosting freezers
>>work.
>
> Sounds more like there is not enough mass in the freezer, an empty
> freezer won't maintain a constant temperature, especially as the
> seasons change along with the ambient temperature.

Three quarters full. As it was first three months when this problem
didn't occur.

> Also the controls
> between the fridge and freezer may not be set in an equilibrium for
> contents and how often opened. If all there is in the freezer is one
> frozen pizza and the fridge is full of canned beer and he opens the
> fridge for another brewski every twenty minutes and leaves the fridge
> door open for five minutes while staring blankly into space the
> freezer temperature will fluctuate wildly.

You are so friendly! Not.


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