Fridge & Freezer failure analysis & Notifications

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I’m guilty of virtually treating my fridge as a Tardis …

Iceboxes & Fridges & Freezers are always-Always On overthink

I’ve semi-ranted about this before but it’s still gnawing at the Sense part of my brain. This topic lives outside of extensive Always On analysis because I see it as a meta-analysis issue and is essentially an argument in response to this: So, some arguments Most fridges/freezers are never switched off manually once installed unless for maintenance or replacement. Iceboxes, btw, are considered “non-cyclic refrigeration”. Ask somebody without Sense “Is your fridge always on?”, what is th…

It does indeed have a DC variable-speed compressor and it runs long vs high. i.e it’s relatively efficient. This is the first time, though, that it’s ramped to 67w over 8.5 hours. The obvious (likely) culprit was an ever-so-slightly unsealed door. I did a temp check after discovering the door might not have been closed this morning and it was definitely still working toward the set temps. Luckily the freezer was still well sub-zero.

@james_reilley

The micro controller might also periodically instruct the compressor to stay on for longer periods of time for reasons like to ensure proper lubrication within the compressor.

Interesting! So given I’ve had the fridge on a smart plug for over a year, I suppose I could expect to look back and potentially find evidence of that.

The post here is a request to Sense to get on those alerts/notifications based on these rare patters … even “Your fridge just ran a lubrication cycle. Looking good” … @JustinAtSense, Team Sense can poke my data!