Thread: Woe is us!!!

Originally Posted by artme

On the bright side I guess the rest of the year SHOULD be OK!!

I do like an optimist.

Originally Posted by artme

Well they say troubles come in hat tricks. Damned if We haven't performed a double hat trick!!

Get home from the bone cracker this morning and no power. Went through the whole house
checked everything and found the good fridge, an expensive Armana, is tripping the safety switch.
Call the fridge people and for the second time in its life the compressor unit has fused!! The fridge
is 11 days out of warranty!! So The pocket is going to cop a proper hiding this time!!!

On the bright side I guess the rest of the year SHOULD be OK!!

The second time the compressor has fused?

Was it replaced under warranty? If yes you should be able to try to get them to come to the party if the replacement is younger than a warranty period. "Obviously" the compressor is not up to scratch if this is the second one which has died with the same problem.

Another thought, have your power supply checked - under/over voltage can be murder for fridges.

That sure is a run of bad luck, but it is always good to get done with the bad stuff early in the year

Truth is Bob we have had a gut full of that fridge!

It simply isn't worth the hassle of the repairs - chasing up repair people,
getting through the thick skulls of insurance people, waiting time etc., etc..

We have also had seal problems and these could never be totally resolved.
Over the last couple of months the condensation inside the freezer section
just progressed from Ï can live with that"" to "what a joke".

The fridge is actually badly designed. We bought it from Kleenmaid and they
went belly up years ago. The unit is mounted in such a way underneath the
fridge that it sucks dust and fluff into its workings and you get the result we
have now had on two occasions. The hot dry weather and a vinyl floor have
probably added to this problem.

Why are fridges not designed and built with the cooling gear on the top? This
way the effect of dust collection is minimized. The fridge should be more efficient
Because the heat generated does not have to rise up past the fridge and force
the unit to do more work to keep it cool. You could also use the expelled heat
to dry clothes by putting a drying cabinet above it.

Originally Posted by artme

Why are fridges not designed and built with the cooling gear on the top?

You mean, design them for efficiency rather than to barely make it through the warranty period?

What a disturbing concept!

Originally Posted by artme

Why are fridges not designed and built with the cooling gear on the top? This
way the effect of dust collection is minimized. The fridge should be more efficient
Because the heat generated does not have to rise up past the fridge and force
the unit to do more work to keep it cool. You could also use the expelled heat
to dry clothes by putting a drying cabinet above it.

Ours is.
It is an LG 2 door with water and ice delivery in the freezer door and the cooling thingy is sitting on top of the fridge.
Unfortunately I cannot remember what the "Cooling Thingy cum Compressor" is called.
Something linear I think.

In a Pilbara mining town where I used to live and a lot of the employers and employees had more money than brains, a fridge would go on the blink and the repair man would pronounce it dead. He would sell them a new one and generously offer to chuck the old one out. He'd take that back to the yard, repair it then on sell it quite cheaply.
For my 50th b'day my wife got me one of these fridges, it cost her a carton of beer (and a bottle of wine for the office lady) and they even delivered it. Fifteen years and 1600 km later it's still purring happily in the shed.

Geoff.

If you have a trawl thru some of the photos from Yank home magazines' from the 1940's or thereabouts, all the early mechanical fridges had the cooling unit on top of the fridge - it was a large perforated metal tower with the gubbins inside & painted the same colour as the fridge. Evaporator fridges like the 'Silent Knight' by Halstrom (and the modern gas or 3 way camping fridges) needed the vertical arrangements of the pipes for the condenser - somehow the 2 designs have become fused.

I suspect that they just shoved the compressor and other electrical bits under the fridge as otherwise the bottom shelf would have been too low for easy access.