Have You Given Your Fridge A Tune-up Lately?

[launderess]

Is there a particular reason static condensers

Fell out of favor?

When thought our GE was dying a slow death last summer looked around and found options for "apartment" fridges woefully pathetic. GE no longer even makes such things, and or fridges with static condensers.

In fact am willing to bet some of the egg money there might be a market for simple sort of fridges of old. Things built to last with rear mounted condenser or maybe simple bottom versions along with manual defrost.

It's like dishwashers and so many other modern appliances, everything has motherboards and other complicated bits that will fail. Because cost of repair is more than appliance is worth thing is rubbished.

 

[vacerator]

I used to think that

static condensors were used on fridges under 15 cu. ft. capacity. the coils were on the back of them, and took up 2/3 of it. Moving instructions said if laid on side, to allow refrigernat to settle before pluging in to start.

 

[neptunebob]

One other reason is that a forced air condenser can shed more heat. As refrigerators became larger and fully featured, a static condenser was probably not effective enough to remove the heat created.

 

[fan-of-fans]

I just wonder if the best way to clean those coils, if refrigerators weren't so heavy, is to wheel it to a door or outside, and blow it out with an air compressor?

When our old GE-made Kenmore started having issues, took the rear cardboard off and sucked out as much as could with the long vacuum attachment. Didn't have a coil brush which would've helped.

These new ones that state they don't need cleaning are a joke. Of course they need cleaning. How could air moving over coils not cause dust and hair buildup?

 

[launderess]

@ Reply #8

Whirlpool, Maytag, Ikea, etc....

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www.whirlpool.com

 

[launderess]

More visuals

For those lay persons (like myself) who don't understand these things.



Am guessing that video referred to European fridges like this one, as have never seen a freezer or fridge with coils as part of shelves.

 

[combo52]

Reply #24

Good explanation of how the basic refrigerator function works.

 

Hi Launderess almost every Manuel defrost freezer ever built here in the US has the freezing tubing built into the shelves.

 

John L.

 

[launderess]

Take away point from all these videos and other information is something housewives and mothers have been screaming at husbands and or children for ages now; close that refrigerator door!

@Combo,

Suppose you're correct, just never saw an American fridge/freezer with coils in shelves exposed that way before.

 

[launderess]

Video of those vintage Frigidaire rotary compressors.



Everything seems to be Embraco nowadays.

 

[combo52]

Embraco Compressors

There are at least a 1/2 dozen compressor builders for home refrigeration products, Embraco compressors do seem very good, we sure don't see nearly as many bad compressors as we used to see.

 

John L.

 

[DADoES]

 
I expect very few consumers have a clue how refrigeration works ... gas laws, moving of heat, etc.

 

[eronie]

The guy that did the last vid was very good to bad hey killed himself. Loved all of his vids.

 

[sudsmaster]

I understand the basic concept: compress a gas (like freon) into a liquid and it emits heat. Let the gas expand and it absorbs heat.  It's just the nomenclature and positioning of these components that gets a bit mysterious, especially in fridges that conceal most of the working parts.

 

 

[DADoES]

 
Evaporator absorbs heat from the area to be cooled.  Condensor disperses heat out of that area.

A heat pump that can heat a building swaps the functioning (refrigerant flow) via the reversing valve.

All air conditioners that can only cool a building are heat pumps, they just aren't commonly called as such.