Question about Samsung RS2630SH Side by Side Refrigerator
Your evaporator coils frost up in normal use and every eight hours or so the entire unit shuts down and the defrost heater comes on to melt the frost. This cycle last about 20 minutes. The melted frost drips into a drain pan and through a drain tube to the drain tray under the freezer/refrigerator where it's evaporated by the condenser fan.
Your drain tube may be stopped up with ice at the upper end because it drains too slow because it's stopped up at the lower end in the evaporator pan under the unit at the floor. It can get dust and mold in it. Once you get the ice out at the top a little pressure with a turkey baster will usually clear it out. Flushing it out with hot water and clorox may help.
Make sure it drains quick enough to prevent refreezing. . The drain should be located below the evaporator coils on the lower back of the freezer. If this repeatedly happens with yours, you may can prevent it by taking a bare copper wire and wrap it around a fin near the heater and put the other end a few inches down the drain. The heat convection may prevent it from freezing.
Posted on Apr 25, 2010
Your freezer still has a drain plug which has gotten stopped up. It's located below the evaporator coil in the freezer.
If the problem is the drain not draining causing the water to go out the door you can pour water in the drain and see how fast it drains and see if it fills up and runs out. If it seems to run fast enough the problem may be a water leak from a water line in the fridge where the reservoir is.
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this is not a side by side it the french doors.
Model RF26VABWP
Well that did nothing! I have taken it apart inside and drain is clear. I have used a air chuck to blow lines and still nothing.Frig line acts different not blowing clear like freezer. So far we are not batting a very good game.
there is no access to water line in upper frig. only from below no water can be poured up the line. the freezer line is free and working. I have had the water off for 3 days so that cant be it. I sure like the french doors but this is nuts how they made this thing.
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