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Beer fridge emergency
10-year-old fridge has finally become too unreliable for food, so a new
fridge/freezer has been bought and works perfectly. But the brave old fridge begs to soldier on keeping its master and mistress's essential beer supply at optimum temperature, with almost Paul Burrelesque devotion. The motor runs, the heat exchanger on the back gets almost too hot to touch and the unradiator thing inside gets icy cold. But just when the beer is cooling nicely, the motor cuts out for long periods. Even with the knob on maximum (coldest) the temperature tends to stay at an un-optimum 6 or 8 degrees (although it occasionally goes a bit mad and whacks down to -1.5). Since it sounded to me like the thermostat, I bought another one from www.ezee-fix.co.uk (=A315, delivered next morning) and fitted it to get exactly the same behaviour. If this is some sort of thermal trip on the motor itself, it seems strange that it should be able to cut out for 10 minutes or more - that seems too long a period for a cut-out to be able to work. Any ideas? Hotpoint 8112 larder fridge, test equipment is 1 (currently full) case of Staropramen. Thanks in advance. Al. |
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