Hints
Saving Energy
Pay careful attention to where the cabinet is placed.
See the section “Installation”. When installed correctly
the cabinet will consume less energy.
Try to avoid keeping the doors open for long periods or
opening the doors too frequently as warm air will enter
the cabinet and cause the compressor to switch on
unnecessarily often.
If the ambient temperature is high, the thermostat knob
is on the coldest setting (higher numbers) and the appli-
ance is fully loaded, the compressor may run continu-
ously, causing frost or ice to form on the evaporator. If
this happens, turn the knob to a warmer setting (lower
numbers) to allow automatic defrosting and so a saving
in electricity consumption.
Do not place warm foods inside the appliance. Allow
warm foods to cool first.
Keep the heat emitting condenser, the metall grille on
the rear wall of your appliance, always clean.
Hints for refrigeration
Do not store warm food or evaporating liquids in the
refrigerator and do cover or wrap up the food, particu-
larly if it has a strong smell.
To help you use your refrigerator correctly, here are some
useful hints:
Raw meat (beef, pork, lamb & poultry): wrap in poly-
thene bags and place on top of the salad compartment,
this being the coldest spot in the refrigerator.
Meat can only be stored safely in this way for one
or two days at the most.
Cooked food, cold cuts, jelly, etc.: these should be
well covered and can be stored on any of the glass
shelves.
Fruit & vegetables: these should be thoroughly
cleaned and placed in the bottom drawer/s.
Butter & cheese: these should be placed in special air-
tight containers or wrapped in aluminium foil or poly-
thene bags to keep out as much air as possible.
Milk bottles: these should have a top and should be
stored in the bottle rack on the door.
Bananas, potatoes, onions and garlic, if not
packed, must not be kept in the refrigerator.
Maintenance
Unplug the appliance before carrying out any
maintenance operation.
Warning
This appliance contains hydrocarbons in its cooling unit
maintenance and recharging must therefore only be car-
ried out by authorised technicians.
Defrosting
Bleeding part of the moisture of cooling chamber in form
of frost and ice goes with the operation of the refrigerator.
Thick frost and ice has an insulating effect, so it reduces
cooling efficiency as the temperature increases and it
needs more energy.
At this type of appliance defrosting cooling compartment
is automatic without any external intervention.
The thermostatic control interrupts the operation of com-
pressor at regular intervals for more or less time - during
this cooling is interrupted - temperature of the cooling
compartment increases and defrosting occurs. After
defrosting the thermostatic control restarts operation of
the system.
Melting water flows through defrost water outlet into the
evaporative tray maintained on the top of compressor and
evaporates due to warmth of it.
Check and clean the outlet of melting water
coming during defrosting regularly. If it is
clogged the melting water gathered can
cause earlier failure as it can go to the insulating of
the appliance.
Clean the melting water outlet with the supplied pipe
scraper that can be seen in the figure. The pipe scraper
has to be stored in the outlet.
Occasionally check the defrost water outlet not to be
clogged up.
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