I have become obsessed about my fridge

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Hi,
I bought a new fridge/freezer a few weeks ago, and ever since I have been obsessed with how often the motor is running. In my opinion it was on far too much, so an engineer replaced the thermostat.

That was a week ago, and since then I still hear it running for what is far too long in my opinion.
I have a compulsion to keep fidling with the thermsostat dial, and turning the unit on & off at the wall to try to make the motor run less.

The temperature in the fridge is 1'c & on a course I did I was told that a fridge should be at 4'c. So I turned the thermostat dial as low as it will go; and yet it is still 1'c in the fridge, and most of the time the motor is running.

I think that the main issue for me is that it is random & unpredictable.

It's not that I have nothing else in life to think about apart from my fridge, but I'm obsessed with listening out for it going on & then listening to it to see when it goes off. Even in the middle of the night it is my first thought if I wake up.

Does anyone else here have an obsession like this?

Hi animalcrackers,

In a fridge, the lower the thermostat setting the warmer it is inside the fridge.
In other words a fridge set at "1" on the thermostat dial will not get as cold inside as a fridge set on "5" on the thermostat dial.

I did some online research and discovered that a fridge motor should be running for 1/3 of the time. That means that a normal fridge would make an audible sound for 8 hours per day (spread about over a 24 hour period).

With my fridge I think I have sorted it out.
I turned it off, twiddled with the dial, set it at number "1", and have just left it. I will not allow myself to get obsessed about it anymore (when it switches on & the motor starts). I'll just leave it.

I had a fridge where the motor kept running all the time. It burned itself out and the freezer part broke down. I lost nearly a £100 worth of frozen foods and meat. As I am on the paleo diet most of the time I had a freezer full of venison, beef steak, pork joints, salmon...etc.

When I got my new one I just got a small one instead. That way if she breaks down again I get less wastage.

I was so upset to lose the venison...I had not tried it before and I never did to get try it before it defrosted and went off.

Never mind, they had some venison on special offer at the supermarket this week so I bought some more. I also bought a pheasant. I have not tried either yet though. Yesterday I had a poussin and today I came off my paleo diet and had teacakes and pork (not together, I had the teacakes with butter).

In my old apartment my fridge made lots of weird and loud noises but since I moved (and took it with me so it's the same fridge) it doesn't. I don't know why.

state of the art new fridges are silent. they don't use Freon but instead use a sound technology [sound waves] to chill the interior. the sound waves are not audible to the outside of the guts of the fridge.

^^^
prego

It's difficult for an Aspie to live in most environments. The walls and door openings in my room are not precisely perpendicular to the floor, so that furniture, paintings, and lamps are all off with the room by about .5 degrees and it drives me stark raving mad. I'm learning to pretend the whole room isn't there so that I can go to sleep without feeling like I'm in a geometrically unsafe zone.

You probably just saved yourself quite a chunk of change on your electric bill. Good sleuthing!