having a right struggle with this one originaly changed the board and compresor which were faulty but have since had trouble getting it to defrost i was advised on here to perform a forced defrost which i have and the element heats up ok so rules out element etc .The only thing i have noticed is it takes aprox 6 weeks between a manual defrost being performed before it chokes up with ice rather than the normal 2-3 weeks any advice would be very gratefull thanks Cras