Old-Biscuit wrote:
aftermath wrote:
I might be wrong here but I don't believe the thermistor measures the temperature of the fins. I read somewhere, and it made sense to me at the time, that moving the thermistor up will cool your fridge down. Cold air pools in the bottom of the fridge. As the level of cool air fills the compartment it will reach the thermistor and then shut down the fridge. If you raise it, it will take longer to fill the cool air to this higher level and thus keep the fridge cooler. Is your thermistor loose? When you raise it, does it slide back down on its own?
Remember, these refrigerators do not have fans to circulate the inside air like ours at home do. Venting the fridge is also important. I have had almost no trouble with mine because, I believe, it vents through the top of the trailer. Some fridges vent through the side and usually need an additional fan to help with circulation.
Good luck with your troubleshooting.
Thermistors measure FIN Temp.
Moving thermistor ----if fridge does NOT have an temp settings that can be selected (AUTO TEMP CONTROL)
Still can't get my head around this. Suppose you have a fridge without temperature control. The thermistor attached to a fin will control the temperature in the fridge. Many of these actually have a printed instruction that shows moving it up will cool, down will warm.
If the thermistor measures the fin temperature, how would moving it change the temperatures inside of the fridge? I am assuming here that the metallic fin conducts heat uniformly. We might be saying the same thing. I said the "air" inside is cooler down toward the bottom. Move the thermistor down and it senses the cold and shuts down the fridge. As it warms, the thermistor turns the fridge back on. If your fridge is too warm, move it up so more cold can invade the fridge.
Are you saying that this change in temperature is occurring in the fin itself? If so, then we agree....sort of. I will stick my neck out and claim that the metal fin is far more uniform in conducting heat than the air inside this box.
Semantics. Certainly not worth fighting over. Regardless of our positions, the advice still holds.
