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Experience 30 years owning our business and repairing Major Home Appliances
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Question QUESTION: I have exact same problem as someone who asked the question on 5/8/2007. I have to defrost using hair dryer. I show 31 ohms at connector upstream of defrost terminator (one lead to d.t. - one to heat element). Now what?
ANSWER: You have an electronic control board as opposed to a mechanical defrost timer on that unit. SOund like this is not entering the defrost mode. Look behind your lower kickplate/grille and see if you can find a little tech sheet. All the units controlled by a electronic control have various way of initiating defrost....Chekc there first and see if you can initiate a defrost. Let me know what you find.
Waiting to hear from you,
Eric Campion
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QUESTION: Eric, I have the tech sheet. There is no explicit instruction for initiating defrost. There is a schematic for the motherboard showing the "evap thermodisk" (I think what I called the defrost terminator) and def heater on the a/c pwr side. Also a 3-d of the whole unit with critical parts. By the way, this problem occured 2 weeks after I discovered and solved a plugged drain tube for the defroster. Up to then, it apparently worked as I had a sheet of ice build up on freezer bottom every few weeks. Over to you and thanks for helping. Mike
Answer NOt sure how far you can go but here is the service manual. Depending on the speed of your service provider, it may take a few minutes to load once you click on this link. I woould appreciate the opportunity to quote on any parts needed for this repair. If I can help further.....
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