Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

[fo3oz]

Hi all.
I cut my teeth on the old side be sides 5 years ago. The ones with the green LCD display and thermal fuse, defrost sensor and icing up insulation fault. I dropped out of it when the 4 door/drawer fridges appeared and the 700L ones with the freezer fan constantly icing up. So I only normally look at the older one’s I know well

But got a new one today. It’s a newer side by side with the blue LCD display and the magnetic door switches in the the hinge.
Refrig fan a block of ice, evap totally clear of ice so defrost working it seems. At first I thought water/ice logged polystyrene. But there’s no way of a fan being fully iced up without a lot of noise or at all. Sure enough after defrosting, no power to the fan.
Anyone come across this fault?

edit: Weird thing in when I got there the fridge was 15C. and after I defrosted everything it was 22C, and it stayed there for 20min and the evap fan never started up. Then 3 hours later, customer calls saying it’s 5C and all good

[funkyboogy]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

MODEL ???

probaly rsh1 – common for fan to ice over , panels now modified and new defo sensor aswell

ally

[fo3oz]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

Sorry about that, SRS504HNSS.

I’m familiar with the older ones icing up, but they don;t ice up completely, as the fan is running, you hear the fan hitting the ice etc.
This is a newer fridge/design, and the fan was a very solid lump of ice, no way to get like that unless the fan wasn’t running in the first place.

[funkyboogy]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

no probs , i havent seen that model , maybe r600 can help

best to post in tech trade inqs

ally

[admin]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

Hi

Model number SRS504HNSS isn’t a valid model number. whats the serial number ? check on the rating sticker inside the fridge compartment.

Bryan

[fo3oz]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

I think I can’t read my own writing, it must be a srs 594hdss.

I’m in australia, I figure the model numbers would be different over here anyway so not much use to you guys.
Serial is B35742BS4000067 for what it’s worth.

[admin]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

Hi

That’s better… It’s a aussie RSH1. Yes this is a very common problem,Normally there is a ice ball on the top left of the evaperator cover which would be at the top back of the salad drawers.

E-mail me samsung@ffrservices.co.uk

Bryan

[fo3oz]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

Got another one, exact same model, exact same iced up completely fan.

Did the diagnostics first, lower right horizontal segment displayed, probably fan fault since it couldn’t turn.
cleared the ice, retested diag, this time no faults, but again compressor and fan refuse to start in a 15C fridge.

Put the system into forced cooling though, and the fan runs fine.

edit: I’ve got the feeling there’s going to be a lot of these, and hardly anyone else in my area wants to even touch a samsung fridge.

[chezza]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

If you disconnected the power when clearing the ice, these will go into defrost when power restored before compressor and fan will kick in

[fo3oz]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

chezza wrote:If you disconnected the power when clearing the ice, these will go into defrost when power restored before compressor and fan will kick in

OK thanks, but what causes the fan to ice up in the first place?

[admin]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

Hi

That’s a short term fix and doesn’t cure the problem.there is a modification for the fault.

Bryan

[fo3oz]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

r600a wrote:Hi

That’s a short term fix and doesn’t cure the problem.there is a modification for the fault.

Bryan
I think he was explaining to me why the fan/cooling didn’t restart after I reconnected everything and turned the fridge back on. And hours later the customer called me and said it has started working fine.

Is that correct that they don’t restart straight away, but go on defrost for a certain time after powering back up?

[admin]

Re: Newer samsung fridges, fan iced up

Hi

Yes they do go into a defrost when they restart but if the kit isn’t fitted then the fault WILL come back in a sort time

Bryan

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