This assumes the unit was not transported to the location in the vertical position and the time is to allow oil in the system to drain back down into the compressor.
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This assumes the unit was not transported to the location in the vertical position and the time is to allow oil in the system to drain back down into the compressor.
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That has indeed always been my understanding of the reason for the instruction/warning. However, I was interested to see that when I bought one a few months ago, the usual '24 hours' had reduced to 4 hours.
Kind Regards, John
Thinner compressor oil? Or a typo?
Dunno. The retailer obviously believed it to be the case, even if it was a typo in the instructions, since the delivery guy re-iterated that I should wait 4 hours before switching it on.
Kind Regards, John
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The uncertainty is how a standard compressor will stand being moved, clearly compressors are used in motor vehicles that's how we get air conditioning units, however every domestic fridge/freezer I have bought says it should be left 24 hours after being located, what I don't really know is why. And you would not want the unit to fail of course.
To allow oil to drain back down into the compressor.
Maybe the retailer knew that the fridge had been stored vertically in his warehouse, loaded vertically onto and transported vertically by, his lorry, and then delivered to the customer vertically on a dolly or almost vertically on a sack truck.
Albeit comments are being made about something I wrote about 9 months ago ... Firstly, the manufacturer would not have known how a retailer was going to store, transport and deliver the appliance, so that can't be why their written instructions specified 4 hours. Secondly, in my particular case, the final stage of delivery involved two people carrying it down my cellar steps at about 45° - which probably does not qualify as "almost vertical". Whatever, I left it for 24 hours, 'just to be sure'.
My apologies. Because you talked about the retailer:
I thought it was a retailer-specified 4 hours.
But in any event, I think that after only a short time at 45°, 4 hours upright doesn't sound unreasonable.
I thought it was a retailer-specified 4 hours.
But in any event, I think that after only a short time at 45°, 4 hours upright doesn't sound unreasonable.
The retailer did not write the instructions.
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I was told 4 hours on a freezer by Coop delivery guys.
Similar to me, then - it was 'Argos guys' who told me 4 hours for the freezer I had delivered last year.
Kind Regards, John
For anyone who is contemplating a domestic-type fridge in a vehicle- I've had an old fridge-freezer in the back of my van since last year (stuck it in there for a trip to the Isle of Man & left it in cos it is so useful). It runs quite happily on the inverter (600w) as well as on my Machine Mart inverter gennie, it is strapped so it stays vertical & it has behaved perfectly - freezer v cold, fridge cold, almost silent- much quieter than my Peltier coolbox.
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Because you talked about the retailer I thought it was a retailer-specified 4 hours.
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