Aww, cruft, fridge thermometer in the "danger" zone. Samsung fridge. I guess I will try to vacuum it first.
(Update: vacuumed and it seems to be cooling significantly, crossing fingers)
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@wordshaper LOL no Interwebs for me. Fortunately, this is looking like a physical (rabbit/dog fur/lint) problem at the moment, crossing fingers.
@ai6yr With our short lived Samsung, we often had to pull items in the fridge away from the back to help the circulation. @wordshaper
@ai6yr hard learned lesson: no samsung-lg appliances. Or any products, period.
No, I have none, but every single buddy who has them has nothing but nightmare stories.
My fave: Stove panel plays tetris because the display went poof and the part samsung sent doesn't really work. When further queried, they shrug tell him it's time to buy another. It's a stove.
Disposable, enshittified, surveillance crap, *everything* they make.
Vacuumed the bottom of the fridge (FILTHY), and used a fancy brush my mom gave me a decade ago because she always had that problem to get all the way in there and clean things. Wish me luck... will let the thing run for a couple of hours and see if we're good or not. 😬
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You also cleaned the drip tray underneath?
@EugestShirley I'll have to go look for that, lol. The vacuuming has restored the functionality... Whew.
Temps dropped from 46F to 40F in the last 45 minutes while taking the dog for a walk. I think we may be in the clear... will check in another hour and see if we are back to normal. #fridgewoes
New theory: the fridge detected me mocking its compatriots earlier and conducted a stealth action against me.
Woohoo! Fridge down to 30F. This was definitely a lint/dog/rabbit hair problem.
Now I am wondering if this was the cause of the moldy tortillas. 🤔
@ai6yr It's learning.
@ai6yr I cannot state this strongly enough: Do not trust the built-in Samsung fridge temp reading. Keep an additional thermometer in there.
@bolderbekah @ai6yr In my experience, don’t trust ANY built in thermostats in fridges or freezers. I have small wireless thermometers in ours and compare the readings. The built-in thermometers are miscalibrated. Worse, the reading varies substantially. My thermometers give a warning alarm if the temp strays too high.
@meltedcheese @bolderbekah I have the thermometer sitting at face level (mechanical thermometer), so no alarm.
@ai6yr @bolderbekah My two go through #HomeAssistant and it sends me a notification if anything strays off-nominal.
@meltedcheese @bolderbekah I already had been researching putting together something that would work. I am trying to avoid the complexity/infrastructure of HomeAssistant however, would be happy with something that just beeps when temps drop too low.
@ai6yr @bolderbekah Check out the kit from Seedstudio(?) Might be Apollo . Takes 5 min to put together. Web interface. Audible alarm.
@bolderbekah Yep, manual thermometer reading 45F, Samsung says 37F. FLIR agrees with manual thermometer.
@ai6yr ugh they are so untrustworthy.
@ai6yr We had a 5-year-old Samsung fridge. It kept freezing the drainhole and dripping water. Called several repair guys who all tried but failed. Finally got told by Samsung service that it couldn't be fixed!
We had a *working* fridge that kept freezing the self-defrost drain water and the manufacturer could NOT fix it.
Had to buy another fridge.
DON'T buy Samsung fridges.
@AG7GM @ai6yr I don't buy Samsung or LG appliances anymore. They make great electronics, but horrible appliances.
The last Samsung fridge I had did a similar thing. It would freeze the drain hole. I was able to extend its life by running a thin copper wire from the heating element at the top and down the drain so it would better conduct heat. It never froze again. A few dollars of copper was all it took. I sold it a few years later when I moved.
@AG7GM 6 years old... Our fridges have been failing about on that schedule. (unfixable failures, our last one, LG, was a subject of a class action lawsuit).
@ai6yr Oh my. We currently have an LG!
@ai6yr @AG7GM kind of amused by this.. me and husband used to run a youth hostel in rural Yorkshire in the north of England. The older fridges, freezers, microwaves in time ended up in staff accommodation when there was money to buy new ones for the hostel. Our hostel closed in October 2007 and we took a lot of the kitchen stuff from the staff accommodation with us when we moved out.. the fridge and freezer both still work well and microwave only packed up last Christmas.. they all must have been 35+ years old..
@stuffjolikes @ai6yr I'm really not surprised at your story. Most (if not all) older tech/appliances were made with a single purpose, and they performed it very well. The newer stuff has been "improved" to great detriment.
@annehargreaves Not the door seals, for sure.
@ai6yr uh, oh, you didn’t have the fridge install Samsung’s “whoops, sorry, brick yourself!” software update, right?