Brand New Godrej Eon fridge heats up

[raptor3624]

Took the delivery of my new fridge yesterday, a Godrej Eon 250 lts Double door. But the side panels are heated up.If you walk past with your hands in the range of within a few inches from the fridge, you can feel the heat.
Is this normal? Or is this a bad investment?

 

[axeman]

This is normal in all frost free devices. There are very small heater coils within the panels.

 

[Gannu]

That's perfectly normal. Those are the condenser coils located on the side of the fridge getting heated up. The refrigerant passing through the coils is getting heated up - not to worry about.

 

[raptor3624]

cool. thanks. the heat has gone down

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Perfectly normal. I have a Samsung model and the side panels get quite hot.

 

[raksrules]

Yes I has asked the technician once and he old me that in most frost free fridges the coil is on side.
I recently bought a normal non frost free fridge and it has an exposed coil at the rear.