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Hi,
Looking to see if there’s anything that is known to help with this situation please:
Put the freezer on its side for 10 minutes to sort out lower door hinge. Left it upright then for about half an hour after reading that fridges and freezers should be upright for at least as long as they are on their side, before plugging in.
Compressor hums for a few seconds then a loud click as compressor shuts off from presumably excessive current draw.
Left it unplugged overnight and tried again this morning, same thing happening. Giving it a shake causes the compressor to sound more normal with a bit of hissing and gurgling until it cuts out.
Is it now a £360 piece of scrap, or is there anything I can try to get it running?
Thanks
Re: Indesit UIAA12 freezer not working after being on side
Well, I’ve repaired it myself.
I don’t know how being on its side could have caused the fault and perhaps was a coincidence.
I removed the starter pack from the compressor and found it’s an electronic type with a little PCB inside. Ideal as I started in electronics. Replaced it with a thermal disc type and the compressor came on and freezer started cooling.
Examined the PCB which uses a triac to switch voltage on and off to the start winding. No visual clues, so tested all the surface-mount components in-situ and removed the triac to test.
The culprit was a surface-mount 220 ohm resistor which had become open-circuit. Replaced it and tested the starter pack at work with light bulbs as dummy loads and watched as the “start” light bulb came on for a couple of seconds then went out, while the “motor” lightbulb stayed on throughout.
Just fitted it to the freezer after work, and it’s working perfectly.
Incidentally, could only find the starter on Amazon UK, and it was £154. Indesit only want £91 for the entire compressor…
Result.
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