Fridge Drama

A few weeks ago I smelled a bad, bad smell from the Immortal Amana Garage Refrigerator/Freezer (IAGR/F). I tracked the smell to a veggie burger in the freezer. I threw it out and IAGR/F smelled fine.

Then the smell returned two days later. I wiped everything down. The smell was greatly reduced.

A week ago I put several frozen bagged items in the IAGR/F freezer. Sure enough, days later, smell was back, bags were puffed up. I thought I might wipe things down again, and I finally wondered "Why am  I wiping water out of my freezer?"

Yes. The IAGR/F seemed dead. It sounded dead. I mourned him briefly, until I thought to check the electrical outlet.

Also dead. 

Gary went to the basement and flipped (almost) all the switches, until he yelled up, "HEY WE DO HAVE THAT GFCI SHUTOFF THING IN THE BATHROOM MAYBE THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG."

I yelled down, "THAT THING IS JUST FOR THE BATHROOMS WHEN WATER GETS INTO THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS."

But of course, that was the problem. Gary had solved it and he strutted like a burly peacock all day. 

Usually we would have know the circuit needed to be reset because Gary would have used the blow dryer in his bathroom or I would have turned on the X-Ray illuminator in mine, but neither of those things happened in the weeks the power was off.

So now, I have ordered this lovely nightlight for the medical bathroom, and if the heartlight is off I will know to save the refrigerator.

Still don't know how the GFCI got thrown, we don't have the Christmas lights up.

Comments

[KC]

... oh, interesting! Our GFCI outlets are entirely self-contained, not connected.

I strongly approve of the heartlight. :-)

[theQueen]

KC - the issue with it is that it makes it too easy to look directly at the exposed bulb. And Gary's migraine can't tolerate that. We keep test out bylbs, like bulbs with less than 100 lumens.

[KC]

I bet a strip of foil the width of the space between the heart and the wall would help with that problem, as long as it didn't cause too much heat to build up [aka: possibly not if it's an incandescent unless you hole-punched the top of the strip for heat to escape?].

(migraines suck; sorry for Gary)

[theQueen]

KC - I have three low-lumen bulbs coming, none too white or bright. I just need to see if it stays on without walking into the bathroom and testing every day.