The freezer is creating "freezer fluff" which is like mounds of snow-like residue. It is a freezer that does not need defrosting. This has been happening the last week in a refrigerator about 6 years old. It is a refrigerator and freezer unit. The ice maker is on "off" position. what is creating the build-up of this snow?
That snow is the condensate build up on the evaporator coils behind the rear panel of your freezer. Normally the freezer will go into defrost about every 10 hours and this snow will melt and drain out the defrost condensate line below the evaporator and go to a pan under your refrigerator and return back to the air inside your home. I believe your freezer is missing the defrost cycle either because the controls for the defrost are defective or the defrost heater and defrost thermostat is defective. I would be watching for an increase in refrigerator temperatures soon, due to loss of defrost. We will need to unplug and examine the evaporator coils behind the rear wall of the freezer. If frozen or covered with snow then defrost with a hair dryer and lets check the defrost heater and all its related components. Sea Breeze
Hopefully we will locate the problem in the defrost heater or the defrost thermostat. Sea Breeze
452192 Defrost Heater and 1399517 Defrost Thermostat
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That defrost heater comes as different number 2188175 at the site below. Let me know if you need more assistance or if you find something different. [email protected]
Thanks, Sea Breeze
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