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Refrigerator not cooling

By chreesa on Jun 28, 2008

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The coils in the back of the freezer are loading up with frost and not allowing the air flow needed to cool the fridge. what part is causing this and where is it found.
chris

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Jun 28, 2008

- actually the defrost heater unit itself was bad. I am in the process of replacing it. will then see if timer and or sensor are bad as well. this was obviously broken though and is an easy fix.

Chreesa

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posted on Jun 28, 2008

tresilla

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defrost system is not working. fault can be in several areas as follows
defrost element open circuit or the thermal fuse in series with element
defrost sensor wrong value
fault with main pcb or defrost timer if not electronically driven

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