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QUIET and cools fast November 04, 2009

This refrigerator replaced my old one from he 70's decade and believe me it's great! A lot less noise, my old unit had a loud 60 cycle hum where's this unit just makes a hissing sound and my old one when reading the freezer compartment area reads about 20 degrees F with an Inferred thermometer where my Kenmore unit reads -6 degrees F and below my thermometer's range.

  The door to the freezer came off when the Ice formed and I would get a loud popping sound just after the unit turned off and also had to run the thermostat up higher. The Ice build up also reduced the efficiency of the refrigerator. But just after removing all of the Ice the unit would get cold quickly with the -4 degree temp and as far as replacing the door I left It off with no problem at all for frozen items.

  One other note to mention was that the mounting of the thermal couple is mounted with a small plastic piece which snaps onto the freezer plate and came loose, so as to be very careful when allot of Ice forms not to break this thermal couple element and the instructions says to defrost when your at about ¼ inch of ice! But other that that's it's the best refrigerator I've seen it cools down fast and is very quiet. 

I remounted the thermal couple element with a heavy paper clip to the back plate and the temperature sense is fine but am now at 4.5 on the temperature thumbwheel. Not bad -7 degrees F,  but would't try to crank the temp control all the way up!!!

Our most helpful negative review

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Could be better for the money it costs. January 30, 2010

I bought this fridge about a month ago. I needed a minifridge quick because I was transferring into college; nobody seemed to have the right size fridge and we spent a while looking for one. We settled on this one because it was cheaper than some other models, but for 125 bucks (after tax and stuff) the fridge could be better.

The pros:

* it's big enough for lots of bottled water, juice, soda, etc.

* it does have a freezer that actually freezes things

* it's not very heavy so its easy to nove around

* it cools down fast from first plug-in and doesn't take long to cool down food/drinks

The cons:

* it gets very loud at night sometimes; not loud enough to wake you from sleep, but if you're trying to go to sleep you'll notice it. I feel like it makes almost as much noise as a full size refrigerator, but only for about six minutes at a time

* the freezer section hardly fits a small Ben & Jerry's ice cream in it because of the shape of the freezer; its very tiny, and to make sure things stay frozen I have the thermostat up to about as cold as it gets (the drinks are also nice and cold this way)

* setting the unit on carpet makes it fairly hard to open the door; there is apparently a way to level the legs but we haven't gotten that far yet

All in all, the fridge was an okay-buy. It does what it's supposed to do and I haven't had any real issues with it yet. If you really need a fridge fast, this will do for you.