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Hi, my neighbours fridge/freezer has failed with the compressor cutting out after a few seconds. I decided to remove the PTC relay to check the thermistor, but having removed all power cables, I cannot see how the unit is removed from the compressor. My multimeter can measure capacitance, so tomorrow I will check the capacitor, but it looks OK, so don’t really suspect it. The compressor is a type MTH 115MT H304-00. Any help on how to remove the relay would be appreciated as I don’t wish to break it in the process of getting it off. I tried pulling it forwards, but it seems to be stuck solid. Regards, Folkie
Re: BEKO Fridge Freezer CDA539FW
i would guess it comes out towards you BUT
the hole marked will lock it in with a lump of plastic sticking up. there also might be another one underneath
Dave
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Hi Dave,
Thank’s for your quick reply. I looked at that slot, but there was nothing obvious on the top side, I’ve not checked the bottom slot, so may do that tomorrow if I get the time to go round to my neighbours house then. I looked with a mirror and there is a horizontal slot in the back of the bracket, and it does locate in there, but that should not stop it pulling forward.
The enclosed picture is that of a similar compressor that I took off of the web. FolkieRe: BEKO Fridge Freezer CDA539FW
I phoned my neighbour this morning, to go and test the capacitor, but she tells me that another friend of hers has contacted a repair chap to come to her home this afternoon. The problem is that he has a £50 call-out fee, so I said to her that if he can’t fix it, it’s £50 on top of what a new fridge is going to cost. The relay in question was made in Turkey, and is no longer in production, so if it was faulty I would have had to use a substitute anyway. I’ll leave it, and post here what the outcome is if any? Folkie
Re: BEKO Fridge Freezer CDA539FW
If it runs for a few seconds and cuts out it will be a faulty compressor and not a relay.
Bob
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Hi Bob, thanks for your reply; quite right, the repairman came to the same conclusion, although my neighbour says that he did remove and test the relay, which was found to be OK. Seems that he too had difficulty in removing it. Being of Turkish manufacture and no longer in production, it may be of interest to someone on ebay, but I haven’t enough hours in the day to advertise it. I’m sorry that she had to get a third party involved, as it cost her £50 to come to the same conclusion. — It’s a case of too many cooks. Thinking logically if the thermistor was O/C there would be nothing on the start coil anyway to even run a few seconds. I would have liked to have tested the capacitor, as it might run a bit with that S/C or is that a silly think? Folkie
Re: BEKO Fridge Freezer CDA539FW
It would be the windings on the compressor or the compressor starting to seize or a blockage in the refrigeration system.
It draws too much power then cuts out on the thermal overload.
If it was a more expensive fridge it would have been worth fitting a new compressor but on a normal size Beko it would be BER.
( Beyond economical repair )
Bob
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