Breezaire Suddenly Working Better

I have a Breezaire 1060 in my Vinotemp. It is about 15 years old. I had it when we lived in Florida. It was in another room then so I never heard it start. When we moved here to Las Vegas 7 years ago it was in the living room. It started very loudly. I just thought that was the way it was. We moved it to the kitchen 3 years ago and it was the same. Starting 2 weeks ago it started making noise when running. This happened many years ago and it was caused by condensation freezing on the fan blades. Dumping out the water solved the problem. I noticed that the temperature of the Vinotemp was now 50 degrees instead of the 55 I had set it to. I increased the thermostat and it is back to 55. Now when it starts it is downright quiet. The cooling unit now works better and it is quieter. Should I be worried?

Fred.

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Fred
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"DaleW" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... Interesting. I don't think the noise is a reason for concern, but 15 years is a long time for those kind of compressors.

Hmm, my fridge is 30years old, still working impeccably. A different sort of compressor?

Anders

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Anders Tørneskog

"DaleW" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@n6g2000vbf.googlegroups.com...

. Thinking about it, I've never seen water collection for a refrigerator, though certainly I have for ACs. I've heard of ACs and wine coolers freezing up, but never a refrigerator.

I meant a kitchen fridge only, and my unit does have a sort of water runoff at the backside - where water evaporates. Afaik there's supposed to be a few drops only, running from an automatical de-icing of the panels at the top shelf. Don't ask me - it has worked without a hitch since December

1979. (At the summer cabin there's a fridge my parents installed in 1970 something, but that's only on whenever someone is there.)

I'm going to rebuild the kitchen this summer and replace the fridge - and the new models are far more ecological and consuming far less energy, of course. :-)

Anders

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Anders Tørneskog

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