OT? Refrigerator freezer question
On 27 Dec 2011 16:40:12 GMT, KenK > wrote:
>Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote in
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>
>> 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.
You're the ungrateful little prick. What made you think anyone here
can diagnose your fridge when it's not here to check... typical cheapo
******* hoping for a freebie, typical taker offering nada.
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