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  • July 29, 2014 at 12:49 pm #81647
    adibranch
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    Hi All, I’ve got an indesit TLA 1S, which was installed as part of a new build house two years ago.

    The top of the fridge is warmer than the bottom. The top is 8degrees, the bottom around 3. I pulled it out and noticed that when the compressor is on, or has been on, the casing is red hot.. too hot to touch.
    There is an even distribution of light frost on the back wall of the fridge.

    Assume this isn’t normal? Do I have a problem?
    Thanks for any help in advance.

    July 29, 2014 at 9:31 pm #417270
    adibranch
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    Re: hot compressor, top of fridge 5 degrees warmer than bott

    can anyone answer this before I go out and buy a new fridge? Is a red hot compressor normal? Is the top 5 degrees hotter than the bottom normal?

    I just turned it off for 24 hours to see if there was an ice blockage .. switched it back and and within an hour the compressor is red hot again. I think its working fine, s I can feel vibration as if something is spinning.. its just red hot to touch.

    Thans.

    July 29, 2014 at 11:48 pm #417271
    kwatt
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    Re: hot compressor, top of fridge 5 degrees warmer than bott

    It sounds as if the compressor is pumping weak, hard to say for sure remotely but it sounds like it.

    So, either a replacement compressor at about £150-200 or so or, a new unit.

    K.

    July 30, 2014 at 9:55 am #417272
    adibranch
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    Re: hot compressor, top of fridge 5 degrees warmer than bott

    lack of gas could also cause this? The reason I ask is that one of the joins looks a bit iffy.. looks like it has potential to leak to me ..

    July 30, 2014 at 10:53 am #417273
    kwatt
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    Re: hot compressor, top of fridge 5 degrees warmer than bott

    A lack of gas, on most modern refrigeration, will cause the machine not to cool at all in a pretty short space of time. There’s only a few grams to a few hundred grams of gas in them so it doesn’t take very long before that disappears.

    That’s just a brazed joint on the charging stub of the compressor by the looks of it and looks okay.

    K.

    July 30, 2014 at 11:58 am #417274
    adibranch
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    Re: hot compressor, top of fridge 5 degrees warmer than bott

    ah okay.. but lack of gas wouldn’t cause the overheating of the compressor?

    July 30, 2014 at 12:00 pm #417275
    kwatt
    Keymaster

    Re: hot compressor, top of fridge 5 degrees warmer than bott

    If the gas goes, it will not cool at all and the compressor would likely cut out in short order.

    K.

    July 30, 2014 at 12:32 pm #417276
    adibranch
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    Re: hot compressor, top of fridge 5 degrees warmer than bott

    okay, thanks. for the help.

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