Res fridge blowing warm air
After I bought a 2-zone fridge thermometer I noticed how strange res fridge works. When it starts cycling - sometimes, not always - it blows warm air in both fridge and freezer compartment, for a m...
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Almot wrote:
So it does this on purpose? I don't get much frost, all it does is warming up my food. And it blows warm air in the fridge compartment as well, where it doesn't make any sense. Probably embedded in the firmware, can't be deleted.
Modern "Frost Free" refrigerators actually have heaters in them to melt the frost from the fins.. You are seeing the hot air because the fins are well above freezing to insure they dry off before the next cooling cycle. Takes a bit for the fins to cool down..
Same is true when you start your car in the summer.. Air coming out those vents at first can be well over 100 degrees. then drops like a rock as the compressor and other parts do their thing.
