Comment on hot-wired a fridge mystery component. Nothing happened. What is it?
vudu@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
A picture is worth a thousand words… What model fridge do you have? Let’s get some closeups of these components
Comment on hot-wired a fridge mystery component. Nothing happened. What is it?
vudu@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
A picture is worth a thousand words… What model fridge do you have? Let’s get some closeups of these components
diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I would really be hard-pressed to get a pic of the Zanussi 19/4 that’s worth 1k words in this situation. The backside of the plate is inaccessible. Every time I pull the plate forward to get an eyeball back there I worry that a tube carrying coolant will break.
I found the manual online somewhere but it’s almost useless. Perhaps this excerpt is useful though:
This is a pic of the front side of the metal plate: pic of metal plate in fridge compartment
There are two white wires and a ground wire going from the blob on the right to behind the plate. The wires run in a loop inside some coil of tube.
bitfucker@programming.dev 4 days ago
Oh, it is a big plate. Probably not a thermal cutoff then
diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
In that case, I suppose I should wire it in series with the “new” (harvested) thermostat I will be using instead. Then both the t-stat and the mystery component would be able to open the circuit.