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  Re: Converting refrigerator with bottom freezer to fermentation chamber (Calvin Perilloux)


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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:58:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Calvin Perilloux <calvinperilloux at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Converting refrigerator with bottom freezer to fermentation chamber

Mike reports: 

> I have not had luck with a frost free fridge until I disabled 
> the frost free mechanism.  [...]
> What happened to mine was that the frost free cycle was 
> fighting with the external temp control.  There would be 
> time that the fridge would simply quit until the external 
> controller was disabled.  When I did the simple disabling 
> of the frost free cycle, all worked perfectly.  

Curious.  It seems to me that if the defrost cycle is working
properly, then there would be no "fighting" with the external
thermostat.  That is, if it's a properly working classic
timer-based defrost.

If the external thermostat kicks on, and the defrost cycle 
is starting (or starts during the cooling), then defrost would 
just proceed, and the fridge would warm slightly, and the 
external controller would continue to stay on until the 
defrost cycle ended and returned the fridge to the normal 
cooling cycle and eventually got to the external controller's 
temperature set point.  It might take 20-30 minutes longer.

What's also odd is that I haven't heard of anyone else who
has had this problem before.  Have you got a new-fangled 
fridge with an unusual defrost cycle, or was it an old fridge 
with a defective one?  Or maybe there's something I'm missing,
in which case I would like to know what's different here.

Calvin Perilloux
Middletown, Maryland, USA



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