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Samsung, refrigerators explode: why?

Inadequacy and tricks on the controls behind the repeated failures of Asian household appliances.

Samsung, refrigerators explode: why?

In recent days, the following headline could be read in the Milanese news pages of the newspapers: "The refrigerator explodes, the house is on fire". Now a rhetorical question: whose fridge? Samsung, of course. This time – but the experts know it well – it's the thermostat. Electronic, super smart but faulty that "depends" on the compressor. The compressor – which “makes” cold every time it starts – even if it is smart (how rotten these words have us) emits heat which it transmits to the thermostat. How come? Here are the possible assumptions:

Because it's defective (maybe both)

Because he didn't have online checks.

Why didn't they come in when it came from Samsung's Chinese factory.

And because there are Asian manufacturers who manufacture a special chip that tricks the results of European controls – when they are performed – on consumption. In short: the tools for testing consumption are "captured" by the chip which immediately sends the tester false data, i.e. lower consumption, so the fridges magically become of a high energy class, type A+++ and instead would be of a lower energy class.

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