wouldn't that mean there would be no need for any method of adjusting the setting for the fridge?
If you have an electric hob, the numbers on the dial don't directly relate to a temperature in the saucepan, they indicate how much of the time in a standard cycle the hob is on and how much it's off. Same for the fridge - you're adjusting how much time the compressor runs during its standard cycle of starts. It will affect the temperature, but it isn't a direct correlation so it can't be calibrated reliably. Depends if the fridge gas is all there (probably not if it's more than 5 years old) and that sort of thing. Refrigeration is connected to ambient temperature but its not linear, so two degrees warmer outside doesn't mean two degrees warmer inside. When you're near the limits of its operational range (around 10C or around 32C), a small change in ambient will have a bigger effect on the temp inside the fridge. And it may not have been 32C in your kitchen, but perhaps it was down the back of the fridge, which is the bit that matters, from the fridge's point of view. The difference in temp between the top of the fridge and the bottom usually isn't enough to get much of a convection current going so whether its colder at the top or the bottom usually depends on where the gubbins is round the back. Has your fridge got an ice box?
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Is it just my advancing years, or is it actually more difficult than it used to be to find the free end of the sellotape? Even when I've found it, I scrabble at it for ages before I manage to unpeel it from the reel.
The quality of most sticky tape has definitely deteriorated... I prefer Scotch Magic Invisible Tape ... I never lose the end and gives a much neater appearance. It also doesn’t show up on photocopies so is great for repairing old documents etc (not valuable ones obviously).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I always fold the end in, even while working, other people DON'T drives me nuts, used to have a gizmo the unrolled and cut. Dove, no good me using invisible Tape, I wouldn't be able to find it. Posting a grump on behalf of my oldest daughter, she is 50 today. Was going to join the forum, she has had such a crap year, with one thing and another. |Recently nasty split from her bloke, 3 weeks ago, she hit a deer going to work, (she's only had the car a year, on finance, another 4 to go)Insurance company haave deemd it "unfit for emonomical repair", and it's being collected today, what a rotten Birthday present. Just making her a chocolate cake. She was due to be going abroad, with a couple of mates, all with near similar Birthdays, one has a Husband in Hospital since March with Covid, so trip was cancelled. It was planned last year.
I'm fine with the link between the thermostat and temperature and the ambient temperature effect being 'non-exact', but surely there must be some correlation and if there is a correlation, then it can be documented in some way.
There's roughly a 3 degree difference between the warmer top shelf (<8) and bottom shelf (<5)
My other fridge has airflow - and I thought the same as you - that the airflow would mean that a constant temperature would be kept throughout the compartment. No, it doesn't appear to work that way (in this model's case anyway) AND that fridge is colder on the top shelf than it is on the bottom shelf.
'...Note the chill zones
in the refrigerator compartment The air circulation in the refrigerator compartment creates different chill zones: Coldest zone is in the upper area of the refrigerator compartment.....'
I actually think I got rid of a perfectly good fridge because of airflow/zoning. I had been checking the fridge with a thermometer, and because I had assumed the fridge compartment temperature would be constant across shelves because of the airflow, on any one of the shelves. I received what appeared to be random differences (ie sometimes a 3 setting would give x degrees and sometimes y - a colder 4 setting would give a warmer temp) .BUT I wasn't consistently testing on the same shelf. Anyway, it was an old fridge, and comparatively costly to repair, so bought a new model from the same manufacturer with airflow again. Only when reading the new appliance's manual did I see the zoning effect noted (which isn't/wasn't mentioned in the old fridge's manual) - with the coldest at the top. My random shelf placement of the thermometer was potentially causing the difference I was seeing. Bum.
I bought some 3M branded book repair tape to fix all the hand-me-down kids' books we have. Not cheap stuff but it does an amazing job of toddler-proofing books. Really strong and very sticky.
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Refrigeration is connected to ambient temperature but its not linear, so two degrees warmer outside doesn't mean two degrees warmer inside. When you're near the limits of its operational range (around 10C or around 32C), a small change in ambient will have a bigger effect on the temp inside the fridge. And it may not have been 32C in your kitchen, but perhaps it was down the back of the fridge, which is the bit that matters, from the fridge's point of view.
The difference in temp between the top of the fridge and the bottom usually isn't enough to get much of a convection current going so whether its colder at the top or the bottom usually depends on where the gubbins is round the back.
Has your fridge got an ice box?
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
in the refrigerator
compartment
The air circulation in the refrigerator
compartment creates different chill
zones:
Coldest zone is in the upper area
of the refrigerator compartment.....'
Well there was no need to take it out on the poor deer, especially if it was on its way to work.