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Hi lady just phoned she has got a hotpoint 8596 frost free and the frigde is not getting cold and the display has EE on it I’ve looked on fault codes and that indicates defrost timer fault has anyone had this before?does this have a mechanical timer or is it electronic?and could this be one of those faults were an O/C defrost element has gone and pcb throws up this any code it wants have spoke to hotpoint in past about funny faults and they just say replace both thermistors deos this cure all? ❓
Re: Hotpoint 8596 frost free
Yes, it is usualy the thermistors. Make that the first thing to try. The defrost timer is electronic and some of these are horrible modifications to replace.
Re: Hotpoint 8596 frost free
There are 3 thermistors but as far as i know the fridge thermistor is usually ok. The ones to change are the evaporator and freezer [yellow and green plug] ones. I’ve been told that sometimes poor cooling in the fridge is caused by ice build-up in the ducting between fridge and freezer , and leaving the appliance to defrost naturally solves it, but of course that wouldn’t give you a fault code. I’ve got the workshop manual for this model if you need any info from it.
GeoffRe: Hotpoint 8596 frost free
Symptoms of evaporator thermistor is fridge reads 19 degrees, food is frozen solid at bottom of freezer but soft at top. All because the evaporator fan is not running. Check light goes out when door is closed as if door has dropped and light does not go out fan will also not run.
Re: Hotpoint 8596 frost free
EE actually means a defrost time out error, which would indicate that the temperature rise at the freezer evaporator is not sufficient or as expected by the pcb.
Possibly a thermal fuse has failed stopping the heater(s) from working or, as suggested the thermistors are notoriously unreliable on these.
Dave.
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