Re: New Fridge - setting up monitoring

[T. Keating <tkusenet@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Aug 2010 20:16:16 GMT, ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote:

>In article <i3i6nf$ene$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, robert_green1963@xxxxxxxxx (Robert Green) writes:
>
>| going
>| away without realizing the lack of opening and closing the door would drop
>| the refrigerator compartment to below freezing
>
>I noticed this effect (i.e., that I was part of the temperature regulation)
>on my previous KitchenAid refrigerator (which replaced an in retrospect far
>superior 1959 Tappan).  The temperature controls also required tweaking from
>season to season apparently to account for ambient temperature.  This puzzled
>me at first.  I knew that only the refrigerator section was thermostatically
>controlled (relying on the compressor to run enough to keep the freezer section
>frozen) but you would think that this would at least result in, like, you know,
>regulating the temperature in the refrigerator section.
>
>I eventually decided that the problem was that the thermostat in the
>refrigerator section was in the air path from the freezer section, so
>if you set it such that the desired steady-state temperature was maintained
>it would take a very long time to get there, perhaps never getting there if
>you opened the door from time to time.  On the other hand if you set it to
>keep the temperature where you wanted with the door opening occasionally it
>would freeze as you noticed when you weren't there to open the door.
>
>I bought a Sub-Zero which uses a completely separate cooling system for
>freezer and refrigerator.  This works very well, but I still wonder how
>the old Tappan managed to do the same job with only one compressor.  As
>far as I remember it did not blow air from the freezer into the refrigerator
>and I think there were coils in both sections, so perhaps it diverted
>freon according to need.

Dual evaporator coil frig's turn the appropriate fans when needed.
I been using a Samsung dualie model for six years now.  (nice)