Kitchen Large Electric Appliances - Refrigerator not working and water condensation inside...???!!?
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drewangell
10-17-06, 08:00 PM
Kind of a weird scenario...the refrigerator came with my house when I bought it and always worked well except that the ice maker would create very thin ice that would crumple. This never really bothered me.
All of sudden the ice box started making perfect ice. Nice solid pieces without any of the little ice crystals or anything like that. However, the refrigerator portion began to slowly decrease in cooling ability.
Now, my refrigerator can barely keep things cool and there is lots of condensation dripping from the top of the inside of the refrigerator making all of my food wet. Also, I can't keep soda or beer cold and my milk I got last night feels just barely cool to the touch. I doubt it will last long.
I did a little research and what I've found is that this is a sign of the coils being frozen on the back of the refrigerator. Unplug it and let them thaw and that should help. Thing is, I pulled my fridge out and it doesn't have any of those coils on the back of it. Just flat and white similar to the front.
Any information I can get on what's causing this and how I can fix it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
All of sudden the ice box started making perfect ice. Nice solid pieces without any of the little ice crystals or anything like that. However, the refrigerator portion began to slowly decrease in cooling ability.
Now, my refrigerator can barely keep things cool and there is lots of condensation dripping from the top of the inside of the refrigerator making all of my food wet. Also, I can't keep soda or beer cold and my milk I got last night feels just barely cool to the touch. I doubt it will last long.
I did a little research and what I've found is that this is a sign of the coils being frozen on the back of the refrigerator. Unplug it and let them thaw and that should help. Thing is, I pulled my fridge out and it doesn't have any of those coils on the back of it. Just flat and white similar to the front.
Any information I can get on what's causing this and how I can fix it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
rodf
10-17-06, 08:55 PM
The coils are inside the freezer section. Either on the back wall inside the freezer or the floor of the freezer section. Unplugging the unit for a day will not defrost the coils. Depending on the amount of ice on the coils it will take several days off with the doors opened. You need to figure out if the coils are on the back or floor, remove the panel covering the coils, then thaw out with a hair dryer. That solves the ice problem but probably will not cure the root problem which is a defrost problem. It's possible something is blocking the drain from the coils to the pan down below and running the water from the coils down the tube when you defrost it will flush it out, but usually one isn't so lucky. Most likely you have a heater or hi-limit or timer problem. Once everything is thawed out you need to manually advance to defrost and see if the heater comes on. If so probably the defrost timer is bad.
drewangell
10-17-06, 09:14 PM
I've taken a few pics of what I'm dealing with with my phone camera...so they're not great but they do the trick.
As I was looking into my freezer I think I may have found the problem. Please take a look at this: http://angelleye.sytes.net/dealexpress/temp/fridge/index.html. I've explained my thoughts there, but I don't know if I'm on the right track or not.
If you could take a look and answer the questions back here that'd be great. Thanks!
As I was looking into my freezer I think I may have found the problem. Please take a look at this: http://angelleye.sytes.net/dealexpress/temp/fridge/index.html. I've explained my thoughts there, but I don't know if I'm on the right track or not.
If you could take a look and answer the questions back here that'd be great. Thanks!