I just myself a Hitachi RZ490 fridge yesterday. After putting it still for more than 8 hours, i power it On. When the compressor starts running, it produces a humming sound. Is this normal for Hitachi fridge?

Most probably its empty. I haven't stock up anything in the fridge yet. Will try this Saturday when I go supermarket to stock up my fridge.

Yupe... something like that. You method reduce the sound by a lot. Thanks.

Fridge ...
how do u think between Hitachi R-V750PMX, Panasonic NR-BY602XS or Samsung S5562 ??

bought it at rm1850. cooling ok. just the motor sound a bit louder but as time flies and as the fridge is filled up, u'll get used to it.

my opinion, i shud say the sound isn't from the motor mechanical, it is the vibration(when motor run) that causes the sound.

Hi IceBikers and sovietmah,

Thanks for the feedbacks.
It seem like the noise is not a big issue.

I found that the door of hitachi fridge is not that tight compare to other brands, this should be ok right?
Other brand like LG or Panasonic need to pull strongly in order to open the door, but hitachi only need to pull gently.
Will a tight door preserve the cold temperature better?

Thanks

Normally how long need to service our Refrigerator?

Hi sovietmah, which model are you using? Do you fee the side of the fridge is warm/hot?

Is this normal? Have you check with the SC?

Or maybe your house still empty that the surrounding wall echo the noise louder.

I go back and check what is my old fridge sound level. Starting and running.

It pretty annoying if the sound loud.

I measure the noise using the sound meter (db). Put the meter about 300mm from the compressor. The result

When the compressor stop and total silent. Meter show 36.9db


When compressor kick start run. Highest reading is 61.4db


After it run stable and continue run, the meter show 39.6db


Can't tell it loud or not since I use to the noise level already.

How you get this chart?

Is your want is inverter?

The DB is almost double my fridge which running db is 40. The 60db is my kick start sound. That quite noisy.

The graph is not whole operation? I thought the average stick is normal running db. While the long stick is kick start db.

If normal is <10-20db, it should be hardly hear the sound.

RVG is not inverter control? But from what i found out, R-VG710P3M is the latest model with inverter control and dual fan cooling.
http://hitachiconsumer.com.my/files/pdf/Re...g2_20140120.pdf

Please correct me if i am wrong.

How do find the noise level? is it noisy at the while? How loud is the noise? I just don't think the electrical shop will power on the fridge for me to test it...

Hi... I didn't go for R-VG660P3M and got R-VG710P3M instead, my wife want a BIG fridge. 
Most of the shop offer around RM2500 (plus/minus) for R-VG660P3M, I managed to get R-VG710P3M with RM2600.
I got my Hitachi fridge in yesterday afternoon and start to use it in yesterday night. 
From my observation, it is quite noisy when fully pick up (around 60dB) if compare to my mum's old Toshiba fridge . 
FYI, I using the software "sound meter lite" with my Android to track the sound level, I do not have sound level meter. 



Also, you can refer to another feedback shared by sovietmah in post #1167 for his fridge R-V750PM. The sound level stay constant around 60db.
Yup, you are right. 
I got it for RM2600, best deal in town! 

I think it's a known issue for Hitachi fridge that quite noisy when fully pick-up, where it can stay constant around 60db. 

Another forumer sovietmah raised this issue earlier of March for his fridge R-V750PM and I raised my issue early of April after bought R-VG710P3M, you can refer from here.

Received my Hitachi R-W750FPMX, The fridge arrived at 1pm yesterday and we powered it on at 7pm yesterday. By 7am this morning, I saw the indicator is already at Eco; the whole of yesterday it was running on full power. As for the noise, there is some noise but not very noisy, will test the reading today. Can barely hear the sound, or probably because we immune to the sound of our old Sharp Fridge.