To make a fridge colder do you turn it up or down? (Daft pub closing type type questions.)

[Andrew_Culture]

We appear to be an intelligent bunch, so I reckon we can find definitive answers to the daft sort of questions that seem to surface at pub closing time. So let's get started:

When you want the fridge to be colder do you turn it up or down?

Option 1 - UP
If you turn the dial inside the fridge to a higher number then you are making the fridge work harder to reduce the temperature, therefore you are turning the motor / coolant system up.

Option 2 - DOWN
If you turn the dial inside the fridge to a higher number your aim is to reduce the temperature inside the fridge, so you are turning it down.


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[Arch]

Oh, you're a brave man. This is the sort of question that starts wars....

I think, off hand, I would say "Turn the fridge up". But I'm not sure I wouldn't say down.

Does that help?

 

[green1]

Up as your making the fridge/freezer increase the temp differential (much like if it were a gear ratio).

 

[numbnuts]

the control dial has numbers No1 is warm No 6 is cold so you trun the frige up to get is colder

 

[steve52]

turn the fridge up and temp down, simples

 

[Beebo]

Be aware that if you turn the fridge upside down your beers will fall out.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

[QUOTE 2280246, member: 259"]Turn it up to make it colder. Ours is on 11.[/quote]


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7rWiY5obI

 

[vernon]

To get to the correct answer you have to agree to one set of criteria.......

Choose: the temperature of the inside of the fridge or the work done by the motor or the temperature difference between the inside of the fridge and ambient

Once you have agreed on the criteria the answer will be sorted

 

[vernon]

The easiest answer is to not adjust your fridge temperature.

 

[Arch]

Once you have agreed on the criteria the answer will be sorted

Well yes, that's the nub of every dispute, argument and war in human history!

 

[Archie_tect]

.... ah, but, does the light go out?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

If the opportunity to hitch-hike around Ireland with a fridge ever presented itself, I would have to turn it down.

On the piano the higher notes are on the right not higher.

However, if you practice scales for too long the neighbours will ask you to turn it down.

If you move up the neck on a double bass or cello your hand descends.

On a bike I use a lower gear to get higher.

 

[vernon]

.... ah, but, does the light go out?

Go out where?

 

[Paulus]

Go out where?

In the space time continuum of course.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I have to confess I always qualify my statement when it comes to the fridge.

"Can you turn the temperature down?" acts as the qualifier, but I have the advantage (?) of being married to a man and know I have to qualify what I am saying in order to obtain the result I am after (OK - this does make the assumption that a physicist knows that changing the dial from 4 to 5 will make the fridge colder but I have draw the line somewhere in the ice...)

When it is the other way around, I am left to guess what the actual problem is by observation of the fridge... dripping with water & not very cold/ice on the back & everything frozen and take whatever I deem to be the correct solution...
Of course I will never be in that situation because he is not that observant and will never had actually mentioned it in the first place....