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Hello, I have a BEKO CSA 24000 fridge. All summer it was turned off, but before that it worked fine. Now, maybe a week ago I came back to my apartment and turned it on, placed food and etc. But after a week, I noticed that it never stops running. I mean before the summer I could hear how it switches off and on. I cannot be 100 percent sure that it never stops, but as much as I am at home, I can hear it running.
I tried to rotate a cooling level switcher. Even at 0 (highest temperature) it still runs. I tried to brush condenser coils, I attached a photo of them. I think they look pretty well compared to what I saw on the internet where you can remove dust with your own hands.
I touched a compressor and noticed that it is really hot. I can’t stand touching it by my hand. I don’t think it is a good sign.
Im not sure what else I can do. It somehow must to be related to that it was turned off for three months, cause before that it worked well.Im going to leave a termometer overnight inside fridge, to see what temperature would it show in the morning. But at least a bottom camera is cooling really well, not sure about the main section.
Can someone give me any tip please?
Re: Fridge never stops running
Two options. One is okay (ish) the other you ain’t gonna like.
Thermostat is faulty and the contacts closed so it runs all the time.
Compressor is faulty.
Former, easy enough and not too expensive. Latter, not so much.
K.
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Today I woke up and went to check my termometer, which I left in the fridge overnight, it showed 14 degrees of celsius. Is that means that thermostat is working well?
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It’s not getting down to temperature so, probably a compressor issue.
K.
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But the bottom part of it (Im not sure how this is called in english), where we put stuff like ice cream and meat, is working totally fine. Everything is freezing out there. Only the top part is not cool enough.
Does that means that compressor is working fine?
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No, common enough way to think but sadly incorrect.
The freezer gets the cold gas first then it goes to the fridge so, if the compressor is not pumping as it should then the problem of not cooling correctly will first be seen in the fridge as, the gas is then too warm by the time it gets there and, it doesn’t chill down correctly.
What you will almost certainly find is that the freezer is cycling warm, as in, not reaching a mean temp of -18?C, it will still freeze perhaps but it won’t be freezing properly. To “freeze” it only needs to get past 0?C or so, but to safely store frozen food it needs to be a lot colder than that. Which also means that the food that you’re storing in it will not be getting kept correctly and can even prove to be unfit for consumption.
K.
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Hello im here again, I put a termometer in the freezer and it shows -30 degrees right now. What does that mean? It is definetely colder than it should be.
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That’s way colder than it ought to be.
But given it’s a bog standard unit, nothing fancy you have is a stat in it so, that’s a mans switch that operates on temperature. It goes on, it goes off… it doesn’t do anything else at all.
That’s reading the fridge temperature only it doesn’t operate on the freezer at all so, I’d be still thinking it’s a compressor/refrigerant issue, probably compressor.
K.
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