The Worlds FIRST True Fan Forced Frost Freezer-Refrigerator
Congratulations Joe on getting this very rare and interesting refrigerator, This was the first true FF refrigerator the world ever saw for the home it uses the type of forced air cooling that ALL FF and FF upright freezers the world over use today.
This FF cooling system has and evaporator separated from the food storage area and incorporates a fan to pull air over the evaporator and circulate it over and around all the food packages being stored, periodically the fan and compressor shuts off and the evaporator is heated [ usually with resistance electric heaters, but is can also be a reverse cycle heating using the compressor ] and the ice melts away and drains out of the evaporator area usually to a pan under the ref where the waste heat from the compressor and refrigeration process evaporates it into the ambient room air.
The FP-142-58 was also built on the 50th anniversary of the Frigidaire companies building electric refrigerators. FP stands for Frost-Proof the name FD used for their true FF models, 142 stands for an overall capacity of 14 CF and the 2 means two-door, and 58 is the model year.
This first FF ref had the evaporator fan motor mounted outside the refrigerated area this was unusual but the engineers were worried about the heat that the fan motor would put into the freezer area. As a result the fan was mounted through the rear wall of the freezer section right behind the hot condenser so the motors tended to run pretty hot and fail more quickly, FD changed this design after only two model years.
Joe a friend of mine also talked to the seller of this ref but he was too late, but we are glad it went to a good home. I have a used one of these unusual fan motors laying around my shop somewhere that may be good, let me know if you can't find a satisfactory replacement.
John L.
Congratulations Joe on getting this very rare and interesting refrigerator, This was the first true FF refrigerator the world ever saw for the home it uses the type of forced air cooling that ALL FF and FF upright freezers the world over use today.
This FF cooling system has and evaporator separated from the food storage area and incorporates a fan to pull air over the evaporator and circulate it over and around all the food packages being stored, periodically the fan and compressor shuts off and the evaporator is heated [ usually with resistance electric heaters, but is can also be a reverse cycle heating using the compressor ] and the ice melts away and drains out of the evaporator area usually to a pan under the ref where the waste heat from the compressor and refrigeration process evaporates it into the ambient room air.
The FP-142-58 was also built on the 50th anniversary of the Frigidaire companies building electric refrigerators. FP stands for Frost-Proof the name FD used for their true FF models, 142 stands for an overall capacity of 14 CF and the 2 means two-door, and 58 is the model year.
This first FF ref had the evaporator fan motor mounted outside the refrigerated area this was unusual but the engineers were worried about the heat that the fan motor would put into the freezer area. As a result the fan was mounted through the rear wall of the freezer section right behind the hot condenser so the motors tended to run pretty hot and fail more quickly, FD changed this design after only two model years.
Joe a friend of mine also talked to the seller of this ref but he was too late, but we are glad it went to a good home. I have a used one of these unusual fan motors laying around my shop somewhere that may be good, let me know if you can't find a satisfactory replacement.
John L.
