On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:56:07 -0500, "Derelict" wrote:


"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
.. .
Ken Weitzel wrote:

Hi...

It's frost free because it auto defrosts

The upside is that you never have frost problems...

The downside is that energy consumption is slightly
increased (the fridge shuts down two or three times a
day and turns on a little electric heater to melt the
ice for a few minutes)

Don, Ken: Thanks both. Apprecaite the fast replies. But I don't see
how to square that with the fact that all the products I've researched
today seem to show these as two *independent* features. That's the
cause of my confusion.

For example, the HOTPOINT FFA70P at
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/30_823026.html
has Frost Free AND Automatic fridge defrost.

But the Bosch BOSCH KGU34124GB at
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/30_202096.html
has Frost Free but NOT Automatic fridge defrost.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK


I have seen two systems at work in modern fridges. One is the heated
defrost (auto defrost). The other is sucking the humid air out of a
freezer every time you close the door (frost free). Make sense?


How do they do that? The air sucked out must be replaced by -
presumably - dry air. Where would that come from?

d

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