Powering up Residential Fridge
This is going to be a dumb question so bare with me. I got our FW out of storage last night, got it home, plugged it in. Switched the battery on, and turned on the inverter. All systems go. Ex...
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DrewE wrote:
Was the fridge light not working when the fridge wasn't working, or only the compressor not running? If you had light, evidently it was getting power.
Depending on the design of the fridge, it may be possible that the compressor wouldn't start up immediately if it happened to be stopped in the middle of a defrost cycle. Sometimes this is controlled with a little electromechanical timer mechanism, or at least it used to be done that way often.
It was a situation where the fridge light wasn't on, which is why it drew concern. had the light been on i wouldn't have thought twice about it.
Actually our fridge shows the set temp for the freezer and the fridge in a separate area, which weren't on either. just no power.
So last i looked, last night late all was good and cold as normal.
hopefully it's still going strong.
