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Hi
You may have come across this before, but I can’t find the answer on the web or any forum, so here goes!!
The water dispenser stopped working – could hear the bits click but nothing happened. Finally realised it was the water filter and reservoir at the bottom of the fridge frozen solid. Then realised that the bottom two drawers of the fridge were frozen solid.
But, the top two shelves of the freezer, don’t freeze at all!!
So, the top of the fridge is warm enough to leave butter soft.
The top of the freezer wont even make a cup of water glaze over… so I’m limping along at the moment.
I have had it switched off for 24 hours to defrost – made no difference, except the water dispenser worked again.
The compressor seems to be working all the time and the freezer is very cold (at the bottom only) The bottom of the fridge has re-frozen again.
From what I have read on this site there is probably a fan somewhere that is not circulating the air from the freezer side. If it is a fan, I suspect it is in the box at the top of the fridge section – but it might be a thermostat not switching it on and off…. or it might not…..phew epic.
Any advice or test suggestions appreciated.
Thanks in advance
MartinRe: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Oh well. No comments so far…!
Time to look for a new one.
Just to make life interesting a shelf just exploded!
No really.
The one above the dairy drawer has just popped and put glass everywhere. It only had a carton of mushrooms on it. The door had been opened two minutes earlier and we heard it go from the next room!Two local engineers finally rang back – Don’t do American FFs..
See how calm I am…
I wonder how far I could throw it???
Are they axe resistant??Re: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Hi,
It sounds as if it’s short cycling either due to a loss of gas or, more likely, a faulty compressor. Either way, it’s a fridge engineer job I’m afraid and probably won’t be cheap to put right.
K.
Re: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Hi K
Thanks for the response. Wish I could get a fridge engineer to come and look at it! I realise it’s a specialist bit of kit, but how does the gas/compressor create the effect it does? The bottom of the fridge and freezer are frozen solid, it’s just the top half of the unit that is not getting as cold as it should be?
I’m not trying to be funny, I am just trying to get my head around how they work!
Cheers
MartinRe: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
It sounds like the compressor not pumping hard enough so, the gas condenses inside before it should and you get the effect you see.
Essentially the unit keeps running but doesn’t have enough cooling power to cool the entire unit so where the gas first enters freezes solid, the rest of the unit isn’t cool enough.
That’s the easiest way I can explain it.
K.
Re: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Ok, it certainly seems to be running a lot so it makes sense. But, where does the frost free circulating air bit come into it then?
I would have thought the whole unit, top and bottom would not get cold enough due to lack of cooling, not just the bottom. That’s why I can’t work this out, why is it not equally warm rather than just cold at the bottom. – My lack of knowledge of refrigeration doesn’t help my problem solving!! then again if it was easy, the local engineers would have got stuck in!
CheersRe: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Start here, continue here, then here and you may start to understand it 😉
K.
Re: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Thanks – I already did all that before I registered and posted – I didn’t want to rub anyone up the wrong way by asking the obvious and not doing a bit of homework!
It was informative, and helped to prove how little I know 🙂
Martin
(Any fridge engineers thinking of a day out in the southern lake district lol)Re: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
can you hear the freezer evaporator fan running ?. as the symptoms you describe are what happens when the fan has stopped / become blocked with ice. with the appiance running set the freezer temp to coldest setting wait 1 min then open the freezer door and listen for any fan noise.
Bob.
Re: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Hi Bob. I have had the back panel off and vacuumed all the fluff out of the “matrix” next to the compressor – is that the evaporator? If so the fan next to it draws air over the matrix without any problem. The compressor is running and hot, there is a hot and a cold pipe leading from it. There is no ice anywhere that I can find – there is a very small amount of water in the try under the matrix and fan assembly. The fan and compressor seem to run all the time, but I have noticed them go off for a while on occasions. (we are a family of 5 so the fridge gets opened a lot in the day). Hope this helps, sorry if I am naming things wrongly – still learning!
Cheers
MartinRe: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
the evaporator fan is located in the freezer compartment behind the rear panel, the clue to that is open the freezer door and listen for the fan noise.
Bob.
Re: Beko AP930X American F/F playing up!!
Thanks Bob, there was no noise! I have just spent an hour taking out all the ice making bits from the top to get at the rear pannel, and finally got at the fan!!! Found the evaporator you describe and there is no ice in it at all. Beloved wife now says it was yelping like a puppy before it stopped working, but it stopped so she never mentioned it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Multimeter on the fan shows no buzz on the continuity test and no resistance on the ohms test – this might mean something to you 😉 – since both the wires were brown, I assumed it was a coil and should have been continuous….(you can probably tell my level of knowledge from this paragraph!!)
Now I feel like I am getting somewhere, new fan ordered from 4beko.co.uk and should come on Tuesday.
I’ll post how I get on, but thanks for the pointer in what I believe is the right direction.
Cheers
Martin
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