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Has anyone else had similar experience with Fisher Paykel Quad Fridge?

last year

Stay away from the Fisher Paykel quad door fridge! If I don't keep all my food on the bottom shelf they go moldy (YES moldy) in very little time. Technician has been out and of course can't see what is wrong. What is wrong is that their Active Smart technology is pretty dumb indeed. I believe the cold air is not distributed properly due to poor design of cold air outlets. I keep highly perishable foods upstairs in a bar fridge! That's insane after what I paid for the FP. Stay away is my advice.

Anyone else experience this?

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likestonehomes

last year

i was thinking of purchasing this fridge. Hope, others will chime in with their experiences.

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wdccruise
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Assuming you have the Fisher Paykel RF203QDUVX1:
1. What temperature did you set each compartment to using the SmartTouch Control Panel (page 15)
2. Did you buy refrigerator thermometers (example, example) and put them in various locations to determine the temperature differences within a compartment?
3. Did you set the Variable Temperature Zone (page 17) to "Fridge" and put food in there? What happened?
Trisha Mann
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last year
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Yes that is my exact model. I set the fridge to 34 degrees F - the coldest it can go in the hopes that food wouldn't rot so quickly. No, I do not use the bottom right as a fridge I need it as a freezer. TASCO ( where I bought the fridge) has already sent out 2 service people and now I think I am going to contact FP direct. I was told that they could put a 'Data Collector' in the fridge over a certain time period and then see how the fridge is performing, according to a technician I spoke to.
wdccruise
last year
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"I set the fridge to 34 degrees Celsius"

You mean 34 degrees fahrenheit. You'd be cooking the food at 34 degrees celsius.

I put one of these Elitech RC-5 USB Temperature Data Logger in my refrigerator to see how it was performing. The Elitech GSP-6G Digital Temperature Humidity Data Logger with Detachable Buffered Probe would be a better choice as you could view the internal termperature without opening the door and the buffered problem would, I think, prevent rapid (and misleading) changes in readings when one did open a door for a few seconds. You could move the probes to various locations inside the refrigerator.
Trisha Mann thanked wdccruise
josh_wold
last year
Any updates on this. We're considering this fridge.

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