Had a loud noise coming from the freezer, like a motor. Went to check it and there was water all over the back near the top. Lifted the ice handle up, didn't make a difference. The noise stopped a little later. Everything is still staying cold, but something happened to cause LOUD motor noise and water to freeze all over the back.
Hi, what sounds to me what happened, is the evaporator fan motor prop (blade) has hit a patch of ice that had built up and temporally caused the unit to stop and warm up. I have seen this happen on commercial units to where after the unit has went through its defrost cycle as you will have on this system, not all of the ice was melted away and the fans stopped due to ice build up. When the defrost cycle happened, this caused the water at the top back and after the fan began to run again all is freezing and back to normal. When a evaporator fan stops during the regular cooling cycle, the freezer section will start to over freeze very badly due to no air flow across this coil. I would keep an eye on it as you may be loosing this motor. It is called the evaporator fan motor, 120 volts/a/c, 60hz. small sealed, single phase. R.P.M.s and H. P. should be noted on a data plate on the unit maybe inside, you will need to look. In any case, keep a close eye on it for now if it is working correctly. You may not have this problem again. If it does happen you can contact me and we can go into more detail to solve the problem.
Sincerely,
Shastalaker7
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