BEKO CDA 752FS POOR FREEZING

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  • February 18, 2010 at 1:20 pm #52600
    iandms
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    Hi all
    Bought this Beko CDA752FS fridge freezer about 18 months ago although it has been in use only about a year. In the last few days we have been noticing ice cream is a bit soft so checked temp with a freezer thermometer and it was at -7/8 region. Should be -18 at least according to book.

    Turned stat to 5 (coldest) in fridge but compressor didn’t react. Moved unit a bit and it kicked in for a while then stopped. Switched off/on at the plug and it started again shortly and ran for an hour or so, including the fan, temp in freezer dropped to -10/11 degrees – nowhere near where it should be, then is stopped. Fridge seems cold enough though.

    I’ve heard it might be ice build up on the evaporator, or a number of things so I’m a bit stuck, never had a freezer fail before, they kept going until the doors fell off! Literally. It’s out of guarantee so any suggestions would be really appreciated, thanks Ian

    February 18, 2010 at 1:33 pm #312394
    TheSpinDoctor
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    Re: BEKO CDA 752FS POOR FREEZING

    Hi.

    Sounds like the freezer evaporator is not defrosting correctly. The defrost timer which is located to the left of the compressor would be most likely in my experience.

    February 18, 2010 at 5:57 pm #312395
    iandms
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    Re: BEKO CDA 752FS POOR FREEZING

    Cheers spindoctor, located the timer in its white box, many thanks.

    Since posting I’ve removed the back panel in the freezer to see the evaporator which I found to be pretty well encased in frost/ice, thickest lower down. I guess this is consistent with a defrost timer problem?? I’ve defrosted it now, took a while, and all dried out. Rebuilt and plugged in, compressor and fan started immediately. That was about 1.5 hours ago and temp is now about -18 and still falling, comp/fan still running.

    I’m assuming that the evaporator should not be coated in frost as it can’t work efficiently like that, and although it’s defrosted now and apparently working ok it will just frost up again due to the timer fault?? I hear they had some quality control issues with this timer.

    February 19, 2010 at 7:25 pm #312396
    TheSpinDoctor
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    Re: BEKO CDA 752FS POOR FREEZING

    Hi.

    It will be ok now until the frost gets too thick to allow good air circulation.

    Defrost timers on this one are usually cheap as chips.

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