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troubleshooting refrgerator

Hello,

I live in Latin America and am having a problem with refrigeration in my house that I think must be related to the electrical supply.

The refrigerator works properly for a period of time, several days, and then does not, for several days at a time, with the temperatures going into the 50s. Obviously unacceptable. We have tried six different refriegerators, and it is happening with them all, so we highly doubt the problem is the refrigerator.

We have had the electricity checked by three different electricians and all get 110V from the socket, even when the fridge is not working properly. They have check various other things, to no avail.

I have never had this kind of problem before, and that includes living in Latin America for several years.

Anyone have any ideas what could be going on?

Thanks!

Reply to
Kirk Leach
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Any chance it is running way off frequency?

Jack

Reply to
Jack Hayes 

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It sounds like you may be getting an intermittent or a high-resistance
connection at the breaker panel or perhaps in the socket the
refrigerator is plugged into.  If the electricians unplugged the
refrigerator and then measured the voltage at the socket that could
give them the 110V reading they got because there'd be no appreciable
load and therefore no appreciable voltage drop across  the
socket/breaker. Since the fridge sometimes works and sometimes
doesn't, what I'd do to isolate the problem even further would be to
run the fridge from an outlet fed by another breaker for a while and
see what happens.  If it runs with no problems for say, a couple of
weeks, then I'd start checking the wiring.
Reply to
John Fields

I am not sure what that means. Please clarify.

Reply to
Kirk Leach

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