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Gene  
#111 Posted : Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:48:33 PM(UTC)
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How long the evaporator coils were without the cover before you took this picture?

Gene.
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#112 Posted : Wednesday, April 6, 2011 3:34:39 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Gene Go to Quoted Post
How long the evaporator coils were without the cover before you took this picture?

Gene.



Hi Gene,

We were on spring break vacation, and I was getting emails when you replied, but did not get this one. I am sorry I didnt answer sooner-again!

The cover was maybe 3 to 5 minutes max. The first time I took the cover off, the coils were almost all cover with frost.

Thansk Gene

Reece
Gene  
#113 Posted : Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:36:42 PM(UTC)
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Reece,

Looks like there is a problem with the sealed system, because the frost shown on the picture is abnormal. It can be low on Freon. It can be a restriction inside the system or the compressor is malfunctioning.

Such diagnosis has to be done by a pro.

Gene.
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#114 Posted : Wednesday, April 6, 2011 5:34:01 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Gene Go to Quoted Post
Reece,

Looks like there is a problem with the sealed system, because the frost shown on the picture is abnormal. It can be low on Freon. It can be a restriction inside the system or the compressor is malfunctioning.

Such diagnosis has to be done by a pro.

Gene.


Thanks Gene.

I will take take your advice and call a pro. Might be too expensive to start replacing parts without knowing for sure whats wrong. I also have the problem with the ice maker leaking. It does not leak when I turn off the icemaker.

I appreciate your help.

Thanks
Gene  
#115 Posted : Wednesday, April 6, 2011 11:11:07 PM(UTC)
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You are welcome Reece.

Check the age and the warranty on your refrigerator. If it's less than five years old then the sealed system can be under the warranty.

Gene.
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#116 Posted : Thursday, June 9, 2011 6:36:00 AM(UTC)
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Hi,

I am having a problem with my GE side by side fridge making sounds. I have had the fridge since 2003. This noise seems to be new, or at least louder, in the last 6 months. It comes from the freezer side, back panel, just below the icemaker. The sound is medium-high pitched, between a squeal and a groan, and will sort of "rev up" a little and then abruptly stop, and continue doing this for maybe 15-30 minutes. Then it will be quiet for hours. Cooling seems to be working fine, but the noise is annoying.

After some research I heard the main control board can cause howling noises, so I called GE Customer Relations and they sent me a free board to replace on my own. I was able to do the board swap without any problems, but didn't notice any change in the noise.

Is this noise normal? If not, is there something I can do about it on my own. I am pretty handy (mechanical engineer) so I feel comfortable digging into the guts of the fridge somewhat. Model is GSL25JFPBS.

Thanks!
Dave
richappy  
#117 Posted : Thursday, June 9, 2011 8:22:59 AM(UTC)
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Is the new board identical to the old one. GE recently re-designed the board, perhaps they sent you old stock, the new design is different.
noppenbd  
#118 Posted : Thursday, June 9, 2011 8:30:48 AM(UTC)
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It's definitely a different design. All the connectors were in different places on the board. Is it possibly a problem with the evaporator motor or bearing?

Dave
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#119 Posted : Thursday, June 9, 2011 9:36:15 AM(UTC)
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It's possible a bad evaporator fan motor, but I doubt it. The motherboard puts out a variable frequency square wave a function of thermistor resistance. It's possible one of the thermistors is cracked and intermittent.I would just replace the fresh food and freezer thermistors.
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#120 Posted : Sunday, June 12, 2011 12:38:25 PM(UTC)
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I wanted to thank Gene for posting this thread in such details. With help of this, I was able to diagnose and replace the evaporator motor and fan that was making noise. This was great help.

I just wanted to point out one little thing that I bumped into. The controller in the refrigerator seems to make decision how fast to run the evaporator motor based on a prority given to freezer. So if both the compartments are are room temperature, the evaporator motor would either not run or run very slowly. This happened in my case when I installed the new motor and started the refrigerator. Initially the fan would not run at all or run extremely slowly and I thought that I have either installed incorrectly or got a bad new motor or the motherboard had also gone bad. However, after 15-20 minutes the motor started to run by itself and has been working fine since. My conclusion is only based on this experience so it could be wrong but I could not think of any other reason. In fact the original motor behaved similarly. I opened the refrigerator to find the motor wobbly that had caused the fan to rub against the housing. After 1/2 hr or so that I took to disassemble and thus causing the freezer temp to increase, the fan stopped working completely, at times it would run slowly. I assumed that the motor had gone bad but it might as well be just that the controller was running it slowly. However, I don't know for sure if the original motor that I replaced still works or not. I had installed the new one and when it started working, I didn't want to go thought the trouble of replacing it again to finding out if the original is good. I am saving it and if I happen to get to do this again, I would test it first instead of ordering a new one.

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