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If the thermostat opens before you've had a chance to see if the heater works, you'll have to by-pass it. (Figure 24) Sometimes it takes a pretty firm twist to advance it. As I said, a slow evap fan can be very difficult to diagnose. The chances are your refrigerator is not cooling or not cold. Install the leaf switch. Check for voltage to the switch. If the timer is wired incorrectly, the fridge will frost up again. To test or change the cold control, first find it as described in section 4-1. Remove everything from your freezer, including all food and any shelves. The sensing bulb is led to, and rests against, the evaporator. The easiest way to do this is to look for the shading poles on the old fan motor (Figure 16). The easiest way to see the heater is to look for the heavy, rubber-coated wires leading to it; one on each end. Check out our latest 4x4 Culture magazine issue online. In the absence of an "off" setting, the easiest way to tell them apart is to pull the plastic knob off the control. It too, is about 14 years old and over-cooling in the refrigerator. Each of these symptoms indicates a different problem. The fridge features 12-, 24- and 240-volt power via two power leads, three-stage battery protection on the digital LED compressor control panel, and a USB outlet to power suitable accessories. Be sure that the ice level sensor arm loading spring is in the right place. Repeat the process until the holes align. The large drive gear must line up on both alignment holes and on the large drive cam hole in the center of the icemaker head. If you find this to be the cause of the problem, unplug the refrigerator before you attempt any cleaning, then pass the vacuum cleaner over the coil area. Often there are clips holding the ends on to the evaporator coils; watch for these when you remove the heater. These can sometimes be quite difficult to disassemble. I tried installing two new thermistors (there was an upper and a lower one on the fridge side), but that did not solve the problem. Temporarily remount the leaf switch to keep it from drifting around and touching things. If you have lots of white, snowy ice, keep reading. If you do hear the evaporator fan running but you do not feel a strong blast of freezing air from the freezer vents, then you probably have a frost problem; see section 4-4. One of the two heater wires will lead directly to it. If the frost does not start to melt, then your defrost solenoid is probably bad. If you do not hear it running, there's a problem. They are accessible for cleaning through the bottom front of the refrigerator. There are countless different arrangements for the evaporator and its fan and ducting, but almost all arrangements are relatively simple and easy to trace. If the heater shows good continuity, it is working fine. The three main components of the defrost system are the defrost timer, the defrost heater and the terminating thermostat. FIGURE 9A: A back-mounted condenser has no condenser fan. You will feel it clicking. Unplug your icemaker and look into the icemaker head. It is a good idea to replace the terminating thermostat with the heater(s). For example, if you go away on vacation for a week, the refrigerator door will obviously not be opened for a long time. If they are not connected to a terminal block, you will need to cut the leads to test for continuity. Some of the styrofoam insulation panels may be waterlogged and may break when you remove them. Do not melt all the ice just yet; only enough to get the panel off. A back-evaporator model is one with the evaporator mounted vertically against the inside back wall of the freezer compartment. Obviously, refrigerators operate under a wide variety of conditions, all of which affect the amount and speed of frost buildup. Make sure that the condenser fan is running and not blocked by any loose insulation or other objects. If the condenser fan is stopped and there is nothing blocking it, replace the fan motor. Suitable for many medium to large SUV’s, the class leading 50QT ARB Fridge Freezer is your perfect travelling companion. You want most of it to remain there at this point so you can further diagnose the problem. Figure 21B shows a typical ADC board. The same diagnosis applies if just the first coil or two in the evaporator is (are) frosted and the rest are relatively free of ice or perhaps even lukewarm. Integrated into fridge base for increased grip and stability. I have only seen one exception to this diagnosis, and this is described in section 7-2. If nothing is blocking the fan and it still does not run, check for voltage across the fan motor leads (with the door switch depressed, of course.). If you live in a warm, humid environment, you may have a problem with condensation forming on the outside of your refrigerator. If you break or puncture one of those tubes, you're looking at a potentially expensive sealed system repair. Lots of cold air is made, but most of it stays in the freezer section, and the food section actually gets warmer. When this valve opens, it diverts the hot Freon gas coming out of the compressor. Frost-free Feature Not Working This is exactly the WRONG thing to do. (Figure 19) Be extra careful; the plastic moulding can be brittle and break easily. Some designs even have a vacation mode; for example, the refrigerator will not defrost as often if the door has not been opened in 72 hours. In this case, the terminating thermostat will remain closed throughout the defrost cycle. The thermostat will then stay open until the compartment again reaches a very low temperature. Feel for a steady flow of warm air from the drain pan side; it should be obvious (see Figure 11). Look first for a separate access panel or a tower within the freezer that houses the fan (Figure 14). Simple to use, large over-centre cam lock latch provides a positive seal between the lid and cabinet for maximum cooling efficiency. 22C) Aluminum tube heaters: These heaters look just like the evaporator tubes and press into the evaporator fins. Is it frosted heavily enough to block the airflow, or is it just a thin white coating? If the compressor is running, it should draw about 6 amps. "VEGETABLE" OR "MEAT" COMPARTMENT CONTROLS BUTTER CONDITIONER, ENERGY SAVER VEGETABLE (CRISPER) or MEAT COMPARTMENT CONTROLS: These may be small heaters or they may be separate air doors that control the airflow within these compartments. There will also be a thick, stiff CAPILLARY TUBE attached. If you have a bottom condenser, remove the baseplate (kickplate) from the bottom front of the refrigerator and look beneath it with a powerful flashlight. There are three different types most commonly used: 22, 22A, 22B) Glass-tube defrost heaters: The heating element is encased in a glass tube mounted beneath the evaporator. If you initiate defrost (turn the timer on) and the heater does not heat up, then usually the heater or terminating thermostat is bad. Check the frost pattern. The wires can be cut and re-connected with crimp-on butt connectors or wire nuts and electrical tape. The capillary tube is the liquid-filled temperature-sensing element of the cold control, and operates in the same manner as a thermometer. Diagnose and repair as described in section 4-5(e). Carefully holding the drive gear in its aligned position, install the drive cam (Figure 31.) Usually it is accessed by removing the bottom back panel. Keeping your food fresh and your drinks cold no matter where you are, the Classic Series II range of fridge freezers includes an advanced electronic control system with a dimmable backlit touchpad for easy night time operation, as well as a 12V power input readout for simple voltage monitoring on the display. 22D) Bare element heaters: Found most commonly on top-freezer back-evap models. If it is not running, see Chapter 5. However, if the door switch has failed, the next defrost will occur either too quickly or too slowly. If you cannot find the heater leads, an alternativeis to check the current in one lead of the main power cord. Powder coated, robust zinc steel cabinet sides designed to withstand extreme off road conditions. On top freezer models, are the holes in the top of the food compartment that lead to the evaporator choked with ice? In the "economy" position, the heaters are off. Not too long ago, one of the largest appliance companies put out a series of refrigerators with compressors that were either poorly designed or poorly constructed; I never did find out which. (Figure 32). Be careful not to kink the new tube (bend it too sharply) when installing it. This can be difficult to diagnose. It might be ice-blocked, or it might have worn out and stopped. Some ADC / control boards control other functions of the refrigerator, too, such as icemaking and electrical air damper door opening and closing. Air flows over it by convection; the warm air rises and is replaced by cooler air from below. Make sure you're not testing continuity across the terminating thermostat too; it may be wide open above 40 or 50 degrees. With a huge capacity, the 82QT Fridge Freezer provides sufficient space to keep a touring family well stocked with cold food and drinks during extended off-road adventures. The hard tray is finished in a dark gray or black color and has rotating fingers that eject the cubes from the unit; the flex-tray has a white plastic, flexible tray that inverts and twists to eject, much the same as a manual ice cube tray would work. In many cases, you will be required to take your old fridge to a transfer station or landfill. If the heater(s) test out O.K., then the problem is your terminating thermostat. If you have multiple heaters, replace them as a set. The trick is in achieving a balance; that is, keeping the evaporator as clear of frost as necessary for efficient heat transfer, while energizing the heater as little as possible. The reason for waiting before you restart it is explained in section 3-4 (7). The heater element may be burnt. The defrost switch is the small, rectangular switch in the upper righthand corner of the icemaker head. (Figure 15). If you have an ammeter, try to determine if the heater is drawing any power before you melt any ice. The defrost frequency may also be shortened under certain circumstances. However, you will need to realign the drive gear mechanism. Nowadays, refrigerators are being made as efficient as possible, due in no small part to government energy efficiency requirements. If you are changing an aluminum-tube defrost heater, remove any clips holding it to the evaporator and loosen the top heater coils from the evaporator fins. Depress the door switch. Make sure the evap fan is running; you may have to tape the door switch so it stays on. If the evaporator is either slightly cool or not cold at all, and your compressor is running constantly (not short-cycling; see section 4-9) you have a more serious problem. These coils are located on the back or the underside. They don't cost much. Sometimes it pays to take a few extra minutes and melt the ice a little bit first. The door switch that operates it might be defective. Replace the coil (solenoid) on the valve. If there is a green third lead, ignore it for this test; it is the ground wire. Timers can get old, worn and coked up with dust, and may develop hard spots in the bearings. They all run very hot; glass tube and bare element heaters even glow red while in operation. At some spot in the cycle, you will hear and feel a loud click; after you advance it 10-20 more degrees or so, you will feel and hear another loud click. Do not touch any metal contact with your hands; you may shock yourself. In trying to find the heater leads, be careful that you do not melt so much ice that the terminating thermostat opens. It is wired in series with the defrost heater; when it opens, the heater shuts off. If you are just testing (electrically) the cold control, you can jumper directly from one wire lead to the other. Defrost heaters use a lot of energy, so designers are mimimizing the total amount of time that the heater is energized. Either dial may be marked with any one of a dozen different labels: "refrigerator control," "freezer control," "food compartment control," etc. If you have an old refrigerator, you may want to … Make sure that the new timer is wired correctly; there should be instructions with the new timer. If you do not hear or see indications that the defrost heater is working, you could be looking at one of several different problems. Whether you have an ammeter or not, if you think the defrost heater is not working, test it for continuity. Alignment of the gears is critical; follow the instructions that come with the gear sets carefully. Double-check this diagnosis by jumping across (shorting) the terminating thermostat with your alligator jumpers. Not only enabling full control of fridge settings including temperature and battery protection, the wireless transmitter included with the Series II allows remote display and control through LINX and smart devices via the Fridge Connect app. Replace it. The compressor will not stop running. Stainless steel detent hinge ensures the lid can be easily released and securely slid back into place. Another interesting feature of most of these refrigerators is that the defrost terminating thermostat was built into the defrost timer. Figures 10 & 11 show the most common arrangement for the condenser fan. NOTE: The terminating thermostat opens at a temperature of somewhere between 40 and 90 degrees F, depending on the design of your fridge. It then will flow through the evaporator instead of the condenser. Using your resistance meter, you should see continuity (and no resistance) between the empty terminal (where the BLACK lead was) and the PINK terminal. Certain high-end fridges are even using thermistor-controlled air doors, and some pretty exotic technologies such as semi-permeable membranes to control humidity in these compartments. Sometimes two or three small glass-tube-type heaters will be used instead of one big one; usually you'll see this arrangement in side-by-sides. After you clean your condenser, pull the lower back panel off the fridge. If the airflow improves dramatically, then that may have been your only problem. The plastic will bend; just go slow. If they are on opposite corners from the ones on the new fan motor core, it is a simple enough task to reverse the new rotor in its core. If you perform the above test and do not feel a difference, try "listening with a screwdriver." Door open info is provided to the logic board by the door switch - the same one that controls the refrigerator's internal lights. Some refrigerators are very quiet and smooth when they operate. If the light bulb is not working, the ADC will still accumulate door open time. The hard-tray and separate defrost timer is by far the more common arrangement. Thus, when trouble-shooting the evaporator fan, you must depress the door switch(es). This is a fixed cycle; for example, the refrigerator might stay in the cooling cycle for 10 hours, then spend 20 minutes in the defrost cycle. Advance it into the defrost cycle as described in section 4-5(d). A condenser fan moves air across these condensers. You may even try heating it a little with a blow dryer, to soften it. The drive pin will pop up through the metal cover plate. If the timer is connected by a terminal block, it probably plugs in directly. If the evaporator is lightly frosted, the frost will melt fairly quickly. If the wire is visible on the old timer, connect it to the same terminal. (See Figure 26). WAIT SEVERAL MINUTES before turning the compressor back on for your diagnostic checks. This is true whether you are using the icemaker to make ice or not; it is running constantly to time your defrost cycles. They come in many different styles. Pull the knob off it and remove any plastic cover plate or housing from it. Durable, Secop Compressor with smart electronic control system enables rapid cool down to target temperature. You can recognize this type of defrost system by the shape of the cube it puts out (or would put out, if it was working). Replacing the condenser fan motor can be dirty and difficult. Replace it. If you are still unsure and you own an ammeter, test the current draw of the compressor at the compressor leads. It is spring loaded and simply pushes away from the icemaker head and pops out. If the evaporator is more heavily frosted, the ice may not all melt within the time allotted by the timer. Replace the motor. How you initiate defrost depends on whether you have a mechanical defrost timer or an ADC board. You will probably also hear popping and sizzling; this is defrost water hitting the heater and boiling off. When you finish, gently lower the evaporator back into place. It does not close again until well below 32. If you don't have voltage to the fan motor, the door switch might be bad. Strong, recessed steel carry handles that double up as anchor points. Often they are mounted under a cover plate or in a bracket that hides all but the advancement pinion. Is it thick with frost? Whether for inflating tires and camping accessories, running air tools, activating Air Lockers® or even re-seating a tire onto a wheel, there’s a model available to suit your needs. If you initiate defrost and the heater does turn on, then usually the timer or ADC board is bad, and you must replace it. When the switch toggle is depressed, continuity will be just the opposite: BLACK-ORANGE-CONTINUITY, BLACK-PINK-NO CONTINUITY. (See Section 1-3). If you cannot hear your refrigerator running or feel the compressor vibrating, your refrigerator is not working properly and you must investigate further. The ARB Transit Bag shields your fridge from dents and scratches while also providing additional insulation in extreme temperatures. You never know if your kids got in there and messed around with them. The terminating thermostat might be open. If that happens, you want to turn the heater off soon after the ice melts, to prevent the evaporator compartment from heating up too much. The easiest way to recognize them is that the harness connection is always labelled with the compressor, defrost heater, L1 and L2. 3. If you are manipulating the air door, there should be a detectable difference in the strength of the air draft from the low setting to the high setting. Beneath the Classic Series II’s tough steel outer casing, a reversible basket with divider helps keep food and drinks stored neat and tidy, while a convenient drain plug allows for simple cleaning. If the blockage is due to frost or ice, you must investigate the source and solve the problem. It's okay, just keep them in one piece as much as possible and replace them as best you can when you're re-assembling. First, try turning the cold control to the "off" position or unplugging the fridge; this will stop the compressor. WHEN YOU GET THE PANEL OFF, examine the quality of the ice that's built up on the evaporator. Defrost stops when one of two things happens. The fins are sharp; be careful not to cut your hands on them. Its function is to sense the temperature of the evaporator so the defrost mechanism knows when to shut off. They may be controlled thermo-mechanically, or even electrically, by a computer board such as the ADC (Adaptive Defrost Control.) See Appendix A in the back of this manual for instructions. I am having the same problem with my GE Monogram side-by-side. The evaporator fins are sharp; be careful you don't cut yourself. The Freon tubes leading to the evaporator will both enter the evaporator at one end. Do what you went in there to do, but as much as possible, avoid moving the evaporator around too much. If the switch is bad, replace it. Or is it not frosted at all? If you are replacing the cold control, it will be necessary to trace where the capillary tube goes, and remove the whole tube with the cold control. If you do not hear or see indications that the defrost heater is working, then it is necessary to investigate a little further. On back-evap models, examine the drain pan directly beneath the evaporator. PRO TIP: 💡 You will be expected to remove the doors beforehand. What's happening is that the Freon is not getting compressed enough in the compressor. You will find the coil behind the back bottom panel of the refrigerator. Most look like a radiator or grille beneath the fridge, behind the kickplate. https://arbusa.com/site/wp-content/themes/arbint, Fruit & Dairy Compartment: 5in(H) x 11.2in(W) x 6in(D), Bluetooth connectivity allows 2-way communication on SII fridges and 1-way display on SI fridges, Three year warranty from date of purchase. If your fridge has Adaptive Defrost Controls, how you initiate defrost depends on the brand. Less humid air will enter the fridge than if someone was at home, and opening and closing the door. If the heater is bad, replace it. These are generally top-freezer models only. If you have a defrost problem and you have one of these machines, follow the instructions in section 4-6. It has the very important job of directing airflow beneath the fridge, assuring that the condenser fan is drawing air over the condenser and not just sucking air in through the back of the fridge. Fortunately, the defrost solenoid is usually designed so the electrical coil can be replaced without cutting into the sealed system. You should see NO continuity between the empty (BLACK) and ORANGE terminal. However, they do not look the same as a mechanical timer. Fortunately, the biggest and best companies warrant their refrigerators for five years or more, so these refrigerators were still covered under warranty. BUTTER CONDITIONERS: Again, small heaters that keep the butter compartment at a different temperature than the rest of the food compartment. Install the large drive gear and align it on the same alignment hole. Draw a picture, if you have to. If the refrigerator has cooling problems, often the first symptom will be that the mullions start to feel warm. IF THE EVAPORATOR FAN IS NOT RUNNING, You may need to pull off the entire evaporator panel as described in section 4-4 to access the fan. Is the evaporator frosted on one or two coils, and then clear on the rest? Plug the icemaker back into its electrical socket and observe the drive motor in the upper lefthand corner of the icemaker head. If the knob has an "off" setting which stops the compressor from running, it is the cold control. If so, the compressor was running. UNEVEN FROST PATTERNS, OR NO FROST AT ALL, The reason for waiting before you restart it is explained in section 3-4 (7). The heater will stay on until the timer stops the defrost cycle, and restarts the cooling cycle. The hot Freon gas flowing through the evaporator melts the frost from it. In replacing the fan motor, you must make sure that the rotation of the new fan motor is the same as the old one. You will need to remove the leaf switch to get the drive cam off. So-called "Energy Saver" switches control small, low-wattage "mullion" heaters in the side and door panels that prevent the outside of the refrigerator from getting cool enough for sweating to occur. If you have a back-condenser refrigerator, make sure that nothing has fallen behind your fridge that might block the airflow. Make sure the spring-loaded drive pin is in place in the cam and retained properly; the cam's spring-retainer should be in the pin's groove. Using electrical tape, tape it out of the way so it does not touch any other metal object in the icemaker head. Remove the evaporator mounting screws (if there are any) and gently lift up the end of the evaporator opposite the tubes. You will also need to hire a professional to remove the compressor and drain the refrigerator of its coolant prior to disposal, as well as pay a disposal fee. They do quit on occasion, but they are a bit more expensive. Get both sets of gears (timing gears and drive gears) from your appliance parts dealer. FIGURE 10: Another fairly common type of bottom-mount condenser is wrapped in a metal plate and is accessible through the bottom back panel of the refrigerator. Or is it pretty evenly frosted? It is NOT a separate unit, like those shown in Figure 21. On some bottom-evap models, you may have to remove some of the plastic moulding around the door frame to access some of the evaporator panel screws. Do not remove the icemaker (if installed.). If they do not line up perfectly, momentarily plug the icemaker in or apply 110 volt power to the two center leads of the plug This will turn the drive motor slightly.

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