Reply To: Opening Door to Air Conditioned Room on Shabbos

shlishi- or many years, there has been a difference of opinion about opening refrigerator doors WHEN THE MOTOR IS NOT RUNNING. I think every one admits that you can open the door of a refrigerator when the motor is running- as you don’t cause any new start (at most, the motor continues for longer and it is not even a geromo). When you open the door while the motor is not running, you may cause the motor to start quicker and this is what some Poskim may have objected to. I am not sure which side Rav Elyashiv zz’l accepts.