Thursday, May 18, 2006
Technology
To understand WHY it is that the freezer just stops working altogether if you leave the door open for long enough, you have to understand what is going on. To keep cool inside, a gas which normally wants to be a gas is compressed into a liquid state in pipes outside the fridge, it moves into the fridge through the pipe, and through a valve where it is allowed to expand. this expansion takes energy which has the effect of making it cool inside the fridge. w00t. (Ok I think I got that sciencey part right). Problem is, if you leave the door to the freezer open you will make the compressor work too hard and it will ... die. Hopefully mine isnt really dead, just overheated. Gotta be a little more careful after getting popsicles out!!
# posted by DeeLoaf @ 4:49 AM 
