"Bill" wrote in
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"KenK" wrote in message
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 have temperature gauges in my refrigerator/freezer and the
temperatures are always about the same.

Perhaps they placed the temperature gauge in a spot which freezes with
ice. And that does not melt with the auto defrost. So it thinks it is
colder than it is elsewhere in the freezer.

Was your refrigerator made in China?

Don't know. Manual doesn't seem to say that I can find.

This is the type of problem I am
finding with products made in China. I need to "re-design" things to
get it to work properly! Luckily I know how to do that...

Perhaps you can relocate the freezer temperature sensor to a better
location? If it is electronic, then that would be much easier.

But it worked correctly the first three months or so and hasn't been
moved. However, the temps changed.

An electronic sensor might look like the following on the end of a
wire...
http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/300...rature_Sensor_
for_Geothermal_Container.jpg





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