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Hi, I hope someone can give me some hope with my problem. My refrigerator is 11 years old and a few days back it stopped working. Both the freezer and fridge side are warm. In the span of one night everything started to defrost in the freezer and both side started getting warm. The door seals are intact and the light is working. I clean under the fridge of dust and notice that the fan is running also but the compressor doesn't sound like it was running. I called out a serviceman and he said it was the relay(electrical compartment?), he changed it and charged me $150 :(. It has been 4 hours, yet I do not feel the cool air at all. He told me if it doesn't get cold by 24 hours, he can come back to refill the refrigerant:confused: . I didn't even ask him to check if it was low. Now my dad is pissed at me because the guy did not fix the fridge. Help please?
Also: when I turn both of the temp knob off, I hear clicking sounds, the fan stop, then the fan start 3 sec and then stop, and some weird noise on the top left of the fridge. And I also check the coils behind the freezer back panel if they were frozen, they are not.
I also tried calling the serviceguy back to see if I will be charged tomorrow if the fridge doesn't work again. I'm thinking, yes, probably.
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You have to do some troubleshooting.
Is the compressor and it's fan running? You can usually hear it but also should be able to feel the compressor vibrating. Also is it on all the time other than when the unit is in a defrost cycle? In defrost the compressor, it's fan and the evaporator/freezer fan are off.
Is the evaporator/freezer fan running?
If the compressor, it's fan and the evaporator fan are running then you have a sealed system problem.
This could be a low freon condition but may also be other things re: a bad compressor.
Refilling the system does not make sense unless the leak location is found and repaired.If you decide to get the repairman back then be sure to get an estimate. This will be an expensive repair. Usually it makes more sense to put those dollars towards a new unit. |
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