National Luna Smart fridge faceplate

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Paul with the equipped Expedition Outfitters today I'm so excited to show you a brand new item that National Luna has come out with. It is a retrofit display upgrade that takes your existing National Luna fridge and turns it into a legacy smart fridge by changing out the display. You gain several things: one, you gain Bluetooth capability; you're able to now change it from Celsius to Fahrenheit, and in the Dual control models, you're able to shut down either of the zones inside your fridge and just run one zone. Super exciting to show you this. It's for any fridge from 2009 up to current that you can change this out on.

So there's a couple of things that I want to show you here. There's three different displays that we have here. Two of them are for the Dual control models, and this display here is for what we call a four-wire connection. It has connections on the back here. This is for models from 2009 up to June of 2019. This model here is what we call a two-wire Model A two-pin model, and this is from 2019 to current. And that's a display there. And then finally, for all the guys out there that have the single zone model, this display will change any fridge from 2009 to current to the upgraded model. What they do is for the older four-pin temperature probes, they give you a new two-pin temperature probe to replace the probe in your fridge. Very simple to do.

Okay, so now we've got the three different models here. What we're going to do is we're going to change out this unit here, which is one of the newer Legacy models. We're going to put the smart display in this unit. Let's take a look at how to do that. Okay, it's a very simple process. Right on the front of the fridge here are four screws, and I just start these screws out until I can get hold of them with my fingers. It's a lot easier to do. Be careful when you take these screws out because there's a little lock washer on the inside of that screw on the threads, and you don't want to lose those. So what we'll do is we'll just take those screws and pull it out here and hold it with my finger so I can get hold of this other one.

Take these screws out, and on the four-pin model, what they're suggesting is that you take off the metal grate around the whole exterior here, which is a couple of screws on the back side and a few screws on the bottom. Simple process to do, and that gives you better access to the connections on the display. But for the newer models, the Legacy models, we can do it with just removing these four screws. Third one, and then we hold this. Now there's a little ridge around the perimeter of the display that holds this in place for you to screw back in, and I'll show you how you do that. Easy enough, grab the screw off the floor.

Alright, and I look, I already lost one of the washers. Well, I will find it. Okay, so the easiest way to do this for you guys old enough to remember cassette tapes, it's kind of like a cassette tape. You lower it down a little bit, and you pull that display right out, and this gives you access to all of the connections. We've got a couple of temperature probes, the light for the interior, this is the power, and the other connections there. Now what we're going to do is we're going to swap it right over to this model here. Now the easiest way that I have found to do this is to actually move one at a time so you know that you're getting your connections in the right place.

So I'm going to move the screws over here. Alright, there's two different connectors here. One is a black connector, one is a white connector, and they have a little clip that holds them in place, and the clips are actually backwards on each one of these. So on the black one, if you push, you pinch down a little bit, you can wiggle that off like that. See that little clip? So I'm going to move that over here, plug it in just like that. The black ones are pretty easy. Move over the second probe here, and that plugs right on there. Now the white ones are a little bit different. Their clip is actually a part of the circuit board, so if you put your fingernail underneath that and lift up a little bit, it allows it to come off quite easily. We slide that back over here, click it on there.

Fingernail lift, you don't have to lift very much. It's just a matter of keeping it on there. That one goes over here. Oop, a little closer, there we go. Now on the black ones, you hold it down on the pin itself, slides off, that goes on here. And again, another white one, you lift up with your fingernail just ever so slightly, and it comes off there like that. Okay, so we can take that display, put it aside, and it slips on there, and that is it. That's all there is to it. So now we're going to put it all back in there, slide it down inside, and come up behind it, and I hold it just the top of this with my finger just enough to give it some tension to give me a chance to put one of those screws in. Once I've got that screw in there, now I've got something to hold on to the display with. I can hold on to that, hold it in place, and add the screws.

Let's go in here, like that. Okay, so now I just hold it, and you can see that little plastic ridge around the display. I just hold it there with my fingers and tighten it into place. Simple enough, you get one started, and then the rest will fall in pretty darn easy. Just snug, they don't have to be super tight. Alright, third one done, and the fourth one to finish up, and that is it. Okay, that gets the display in there. Now what we need to do is to program this display to match up with your fridge, and let's go ahead and start that process.

Okay, so I'm going to plug this in, it's going to get power up here, and while there are eights across there, you need to simultaneously press the down, up, and battery buttons, and that will take you into where you can put in the code for this machine. And the pin is the serial number that's mounted on a plate on the back of the fridge. If it's a five-number pin, you have to put a zero at the front of it because it's a six-number scenario. So this model has a serial number of 94920, so we'll add a zero to it, so it'll be 094920. Okay, so let's try this. So I'm going to plug this in, give it power, and while it with eights, you push those three, now it's going to come up with a scenario here of all zeros and the one that's flashing.

Okay, so the numbers we want to put in here are the six digits, the serial number plus a zero at the front if you have a five-number serial number. So zero is the right number for the start of this. For each one of these, you press the battery button, it'll move on to the next one. Okay, now we're going to take that up here to 9, the next one would be 4, the next one here is 9, the next one is 2, and 0. Okay, now this flashes the model of the fridge. Now there's different models, this one's a 50-liter fridge, so we're okay here, but if you needed to change it to any of the other Dual Zone models, you can run up and down the scale and choose which model it is. So we're going to stay here with a 50-liter model, hit the battery button again, it comes up with all eights, shows our model and the firmware number on here, and now it is set to run.

Now what you can also do is it is set currently at Celsius. If you hold the up and down over here, it'll swap it over to Fahrenheit, or you can swap it back to Celsius if you choose to. Okay, now what we can do is now that we have this in, we can take our phone and let's go out here, and what we've got is the National Luna Connect model here. If I can connect with this fridge, we've got several models connected in the showroom here, but it's going to come up here connecting to device enter PIN. Okay, 094920, enter 94920. Okay, so I put in the pin, which is the serial number on there, I've added the zero the first time, and it says oh, that's the wrong PIN, so you just put in the five digits for the pin, the serial number.

So now what it's showing me here is that we've got the fridge, the left side's at 18 Celsius, the right is at 15 Celsius, and it has its connections here, and it is running. Up here we can change the units to Fahrenheit, and it changes over on the fridge. Now I can run all of this fridge controls, I can touch on here, and I can move the scale up if I want to change the temperature, I can move it up or down, and you can see it on the fridge as well, right. So I'm going to leave that at 36 degrees Fahrenheit. This side over here is set at 32, I want to have that now that's a small one, let's put that down, I want to have that at 20 degrees Fahrenheit, it's a freezer. Okay, I'm gonna hit okay, now it's set, now it's going to run and go to those temperatures in Fahrenheit.

It's a wonderful little option to have on there. Also, if you want to, let's say, oh boy, I've decided I don't want that side to be a freezer, you know what, I'm not even going to use that side, I can hit it up here, and I take it to the top of the scale for it, and what it'll do is it'll eventually go to off. What I have now done is I have shut down one zone in the fridge, leaving the other zone to run, which is a nice functionality option on this new display. If I wanna, wait a minute, I want this back as a fridge, so I can take this down, when I put it down here, 36 is a good number, let's do that.