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Experience 30 years owning our business and repairing Major Home Appliances
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Publications 30 Years of Working on Major Home Appliances and selling parts. Our office staff is top notched and is supervised by My Wife Ann who is also very experienced in the Major Home Appliance Service and Part Sales Business
Question I have a refrigerator that has a problem. I will describe the refrigerator since it is not a US model (however I expect refrigerators are all the same, basically). It is a fridge/freezer with the ratio between them of about 50 (freezer in the bottom). The freezer works fine. However, the fridge does not get cold enough.
At the rear of the inside of the fridge is a heat exchanger. I deduce the pipes for the refrigerant comes up at the right hand side behind the rear wall to the exchanger. These pipes freeze up and are completely ice bound. However, the heat exchanger has no ice on it at all. Because the ice is an insulator, this means the fridge has problems keeping a low temperature.
Can the exchanger be blocked? I know that there must be a jet or nozzle there some where to allow for expansion of the refrigerant. Could this be blocked and can they be dismantled to clean? Is there any way to improve the efficiency of the fridge so it will cool properly?
Answer Gain access to the rear inside panel in the freezer section and then using a hair dryer, defrost all the frost and ice from the coils. Once finished, your unit will work perfectly for about a week. In the mean time you can determine whether the timer, heater or terminator is defective. Good Luck, Eric
