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Eight or ten years ago, the refrigerator wasn't cooling, so I called a repairman. He said the defrost timer wasn't working and replaced it. It ran fine for months, then quit cooling again, same reason. Having watched him and using your great resource, I knew what to do. Turning the timer every hour or two to keep it cool, I ordered the part and installed it with no problem. You guessed it, same thing happened in about a year. After turning it, it would work okay for a day to a year, then days of turning it manually. Went through the whole process again about a year ago. Installed a new timer. It works fine on the defrost cycle, but it appears to stop turning at the beginning of the cooling cycle, because it requires a long rotation to get it to enter the defrost cycle. How bad is my luck to have four timers go bad? There must be another answer. What is it?
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Here are your parts Parts for Whirlpool ED25DQXWN00 Refrigerator - AppliancePartsPros.comSee the attachment for the tech sheet. I am not sure what it is so can only guess. My guess is that in cooling mode the defrost timer motor is not getting enough voltage/current. Check the voltage across the timer motor when in defrost and then when in cooling modes. If it is lower in a cooling mode then I would unplug the unit and check the resistance across the temperature control thermostat when it is closed, should be 0 ohms. Use your most sensitive meter scale and also short the meter leads together before starting so you know if there is a zero offset in the meter. If it is 0 ohms then I would say that going through timers is just the nature of this beast. With luck someone else will chime in who has experience with this particular model. |
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Thanks for the quick reply and the suggestion. If it is other than 0 ohms, should i replace the temperature control thermostat?
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[COLOR="Blue"] If it is other than 0 ohms, should i replace the temperature control thermostat?[/COLOR] That is what I would do. |
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