I've been waiting 6 years for our Trust to fix our work equipment and the access areas we use ...they spend as low an amount as they can only for stuff to fail again
Whoever wrote that note isn't great at communication.
"The refrigerator is currently heating items." Ok... does this mean it is broken? Or is the heating intentional and this is just a warning not to put things in it that you don't want heated up? Is this heating up phase meant to stop anytime soon?
"Thank you for your time and consideration," for what? Reading the note? Is this a request that the refrigerator be fixed? Or is it merely a warning to other people? If we're meant to assume that the fridge is broken, has someone in charge been informed?
All good points! I put in the ticket to get it fixed after eating questionable chicken the previous day, I survived so yay me.
Whoever put the note up wasn't part of facilities I found out that, they were just trying to be clever. Facilities wrote a hand written note on it saying they know and are waiting for parts.
I'm trying to figure out what kind of defect would cause that. The heating elements of a fridge, the air exchange that has the hotter refrigerant, are all outside the box I believe. If the compressor fails, the refrigerant doesn't move and doesn't move heat. So it'd just be an insulated box, right? I think that'd get hotter an ambient but I'm not sure I'd say it's "heating".
Thermoelectric was my first thought, since it can heat or cool, to maintain a set point, warm food, or chill beverages, as implemented in some fancy lunch boxes. I didn't know if the same applies at this scale, but I'm assuming this unit uses a compressor.
I've seen this happen when the condenser coil is outside and during electrical work to the building the phases were swapped so the unit essentially ran in reverse.
True, but it's still using the facade of being cool why pursuing the goal of being hot. Never realizing that it can never be smoking hot like the Microwave.
Does anyone else smell popcorn burning?
No? Just me?