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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
That is simply down to the thermostat design - hysteresis, etc.

Or the compressor taking a while to get going? If I turn on a resistive
element, I get heat immediately. If I turn on a compressor, a few
minutes pass before cooling takes place, and another few minutes for it
to stop cooling when I turn it off. Even if a fridge stat had a
hysteresis of 0.00001C and the air inside the fridge was blown around by
a fan, so perfectly even, it would still continue to cool after the
compressor was turned off due to the thermal capacity of the coolant in
the internal pipes.

Thanks for confirming you don't know what hysteresis is.

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