Dear all.

My refrigerator and freezer are both cold when it is turn on. I know if the refrigerator is cold enough, it will turn off itself. After certain amount of time, when it get warm the refrigerator will automatic turn on itself.

However, sometimes my fridge took too long for it to turn on itself. I notice it because I see the ice-cream in the freezer is start melting. By the mean of sometimes, it usually happen when I get off from work and no one open or close the door for about 8 hours.

So when I get home and hear no sound from the fridge, I first check the ice-cream in the freezer. If I feel it is melting, I know it has been turn off too long. If I push and release the door switch few time, it will trigger the fridge to turn on.

For all the expert, would you please let me know what is broken in my fridge?

Thank you for all your help!!!

Thank you for your reply.

I don't even need to open the control panel. This morning when I wake up, the fridge seen stop running for a long time because the ice in the freezer is start melting. So I tap the bottom of the control panel where the adaptive defrost timer control board located, the fridge start running and I can hear the compressor turn on.

I already place the order of the part #4388932 and hope it fix the problem.

Again, thank you so much.

When I look at the diagram of the control box, there is only defrost time board and thermostat in it.

Please advice where is the cold control and the part # for this model.

Thank you so much.

Item #6 is the thermostat (referring from the sears part store web site). Isn't that mean thermostat is same as cold control?

Thanks.

It turns out to be the thermostat problem. After changed the thermostat, the fridge is nice and cold now.

Again, thank you for all your helps!!