ImStillMags > wrote in
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> On Dec 26, 8:40*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.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> --
>> "Experience is something you don't get until
>> just after you need it." Steven Wright
>
> I think it was the defrost cycle.

Then why didn't it do this the first three or four months?

> Was your old refrigerator a
> 'frostless' one or did you have to manually
> defrost the freezer.

Frostless. Defrosting was obvious (only time the freezer went above 0)
and seldom.




--
"Experience is something you don't get until
just after you need it." Steven Wright