Time for repair again

South Pacific Familyadventure 2008
Claes Brodin
Sun 17 Nov 2024 20:13
Enjoying some weeks without any repairs the fridge and freezer stopped working. Fortunately we have a Nova Cool deepfreezer which took over some days and also a classic manual for the fridge on paper. Following the trouble shooting from the manual the electronic box seemed to be the problem. To my surprise they had one spare at the Rubicon shipyard. 
I have replaced an electronic box on a Danfoss compressor before and that was on S/Y Tarita 2008. They were then made by Danfoss and the price was around 60Euros. Today the brand is Secop which means China production. The price today is over 180Euros which means an increement of over 300% in 16 years which in turn means someone is getting rich on the way to the customer. The salary for a consultant surgeon has increased 80% during the same time.
The middle class in the Western world is shrinking and becoming more and more angry. The above is probably one contributing factor.
With liberal capitalism "the market" is supposed to manage everything by itself but by failing it´s making normal honest working people frustrated,again perhaps a reason for voting for disaffected politicians.
Nevertheless the fridge and freezer is back in working order and we got to test the deepfreezer as well.

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