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A mini refrigerator works by moving heat from inside to outside using a refrigerant.
1-The compressor compresses the refrigerant gas, raising its pressure and temperature. In the condenser, the hot high-pressure gas releases heat to the room and condenses into a liquid.
2-The expansion tube then greatly lowers its pressure, which lowers its boiling point, allowing the cold refrigerant to evaporate inside the evaporator while absorbing heat from the fridge.
3-The refrigerant then returns to the compressor and the cycle repeats. Higher pressure raises the temperature needed for the refrigerant to stay gaseous, while lower pressure allows it to evaporate at a much lower temperature.
4-The thermostat detects the temperature and automatically opens and closes the compressor circuit to maintain the selected temperature.
5-The 0/off position manually opens the compressor circuit, while settings 1–6 allow the thermostat to regulate it automatically. The extra-cold compartment is simply a colder area near the cooling system and has no independent control.
TL;DR
I thought the manual switch that goes from 0/off - 1 to 6 was just about adjusting the temperature in the extra cold compartment, turns out my fridge had ambient temperature with my peps inside. I turned it all OFF for days and days.
The extra-cold compartment just happens to be located where the evaporator, containing the coldest refrigerant, is in direct thermal contact with the inner surface of the fridge through the metal evaporator coil. This is where heat is transferred most efficiently from the interior to the refrigerant, resulting in a lowest temperature.
Reason why is called the extra-cold compartment Duhhhhhh
Not exclusively-colder compartment, then it should have a different thermostat only for that compartment.
1-The compressor compresses the refrigerant gas, raising its pressure and temperature. In the condenser, the hot high-pressure gas releases heat to the room and condenses into a liquid.
2-The expansion tube then greatly lowers its pressure, which lowers its boiling point, allowing the cold refrigerant to evaporate inside the evaporator while absorbing heat from the fridge.
3-The refrigerant then returns to the compressor and the cycle repeats. Higher pressure raises the temperature needed for the refrigerant to stay gaseous, while lower pressure allows it to evaporate at a much lower temperature.
4-The thermostat detects the temperature and automatically opens and closes the compressor circuit to maintain the selected temperature.
5-The 0/off position manually opens the compressor circuit, while settings 1–6 allow the thermostat to regulate it automatically. The extra-cold compartment is simply a colder area near the cooling system and has no independent control.
TL;DR
I thought the manual switch that goes from 0/off - 1 to 6 was just about adjusting the temperature in the extra cold compartment, turns out my fridge had ambient temperature with my peps inside. I turned it all OFF for days and days.
The extra-cold compartment just happens to be located where the evaporator, containing the coldest refrigerant, is in direct thermal contact with the inner surface of the fridge through the metal evaporator coil. This is where heat is transferred most efficiently from the interior to the refrigerant, resulting in a lowest temperature.
Reason why is called the extra-cold compartment Duhhhhhh
Not exclusively-colder compartment, then it should have a different thermostat only for that compartment.
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