I am very fond of refrigerators and like to have the best that technology can offer. So about 5 years ago, when Daewoo were in their hey days I purchased the above fridge at a cost of about 75, 000/-I had been visiting showrooms for days on end checking out the various models from Samsung, LG & GE as at that time they were the only ones making the top of the line fridges.
In the end I opted for Daewoo as that particluar model offered the best of everything and in a great stylish cabinet. It was to be our first truly frostfree fridge. We had at that time two other direct cool fridges and one deep freezer(direct cooling ones) and hence were fed up of defrosting them regularly. If you have defrosted a 600 liter deep freezer everymonth, phewwwww http://www.It was terrible. Buckets of hot water to melt the ice and frost bite too.
This particular fridge has frost free operation. But there is no technically frost free fridge made in the world till today. Every frost free fridge has heaters in the freezer and every 8 hours or so the compressor stops and the heaters start. They melt the frost created in the last 8 hours and the melted water is piped to a drain tray at the bottom which gets got and is thus evaporated. Then the compresor starts again for another 8 hour cycle. The frost formation in frost free fridges cannot be seen. Its in the inside where the fans are.
Another feature of this fridge is fuzzy logic. Its got a computer which studies your usage pattern. It knows when you go to sleep, when you open it the maximum (for lunch & dinner) and controls the work cycles accordingly. So it cools the most when you open it the most and slows down during afternoons & at night.
It also has an air curtain in the door for quick chilling and a deoderiser to purge the odours which develop sometimes.
In all these years of service, it has worked effortlessly. We have never had to call the mechanic ever. It has full electronic controls for temperature and extremely user friendly.And the cooling !!!!!!!!!!! Awesome. Ice formation in 12 minutes. Quick chilling for beer only in 10 minutes. Nothing ever goes bad in it. The 3d surround cooling ensures that there are no hot spots anywhere in the cabinet. And super silent operation.The fuzzy logic senses that it is night and slows the fridge down so that it is almost soundless in the night. And at 702 litres, its like a cave. Huge capacity for the freezer as well as the refrigerator compartment.
After using this fridge, the direct cooling ones seem as if they are out of the stone age.
Its a totally hasslefree experience.
So always go in for frost free ones and that too from the MNCs like Samsung, LG etc.The local frost free ones have no class. They are poor cousins of their imported counterparts.