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Hi bb
Don’t mind giving it a go if you’re able to talk me through what I’m looking for and how to do it?
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CpettRe: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Hi Cpett, just sent a pm, I’ll send some pics when i have your e-mail
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Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Hi Brodders I got round to removing the shelves in my freezer and the rear wall and evap thing is not cold at all , so whats he next move ? the fan is working though
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Hi Billy,
If your compressor is still getting warm / hot and the evaporator has no ice on it, your compressor is shot or the system is out of gas due to a leak. š
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Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
So I don’t need a new front board as well . How do I find out whether its the gas or the compresser ?
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Hi Billy,
you need a refrigeration engineer.
bb
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Hi Ronan,
To be fair to Whirlpool, they have used a manufacture in Spain and Italy to produce the boards I guess for the European market.
Itās ISPRACONTROLS who were at fault.
They make units for many other manufactures too including Serviceā¦
Yes in the early days they were guilty of fitting cheap capacitors but, there were not many alternatives and all the manufactures appliances suffered.
Not just Fridges but, Oven and Washing Machines to name but two.As times have changed, so have the board designs though some still remain cheap and cheerful.
The manufacturing process of capacitors has also changed in a huge way with material choice and construction; since 2005 the board manufactures now use better quality components all round and should last a good 5 years.
Hotpoint boards are manufactured by someone else and they still suffer cap problems on some models.
Manufactures have started using solid state chips to run the power supplies but, these chips can fail in 2 or 3 years and cause far for damage then a capacitor thatās gone open circuit.
Caps are cheap and easy to change.
Chips can be more reliable but, when they fail, the board has to be replaced; unless Iām the owner, in which case I go to long lengths to get it repaired. (Ordering a chip from China) for a Panasonic microwave.
Swings and roundabouts I guess. šRe: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
O.M.G šÆ
5 minutes after writing the above, I had a call to look at a 15 month old Whirlpool 20RB-3DJ that Iād been discussing for a week or so.
Flextronic in Hungary now manufacture the modules for these. At first glance, very sophisticated and full use of surface mount technology.
No more capacitor failures because there arenāt any.
(Well, not in the same sense as before)
So what was the problem?
The main power supply chip had literally blown itās top and the circuit board was fried, tracks have got hot, melted and shorted other components.
The unit had been in service for only 3 or 4 months due to house renovations.
Give me a cheap old power supply any day.
Modern technology strikes again.
A big retailer (who donāt make Chicken Korma) are willing to contribute to the repair.
For the cynics out there; quoting the Sale Of Goods Act does work and retailers are finally contributing fairly towards repairs / replacements.
Thank youfather in laws whirlpool broken down this needed work done on back and front boards worked on as i have done before with the help of broddersbaldrick and was hoping he could help me here at the back of frezer on the in side there is thick frost this was there when i done the repair and i asked him to do a defrost but he did not so 2 weeks on and the fridge stoped working (no cold air) so he is doing a defrost now but could there be something else broken the post where the door met was very warm should i be work on another part of the fridge i think the number on the fridge is 85861521500 i for got to look as i have done this fridge before. broddersbaldrick i could ring you as i have your number from before thinks happy xmas to all
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Hi Paddy, sounds like the usual ādefrostā problem.
If youāve changed all the components and your father has finally defrosted the freezer, you shouldnāt have any more problems.
Oh, yes happy Christmas to all šš thinks for the quick reply broddersbaldrick š
if someone in my area needs help i could try to help them just send a pmRe: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Thanks to a tipoff from Ozzy1 I found this forum. I’d been posting elsewhere in vain. Thanks mate! if here in Oz too, and my S26 had the madly chattering relays and flickering lights, and was slowly getting worse. The ice and water dispensers had recently stopped working too. Read through the whole sorry saga, bought the capacitors opened it up and fixed it. In my case it was the caps on the front board that made the difference. Of course, I’d started with the back board first. An extra 30 minutes, but probably not wasted time.
One question. Can anyone tell me why the temperature display only shows the temp you’ve set the fridge and freezer to be, rather than the temp they actually are? Unless the freezer’s been off a while and the temps risen to -6, I think. Not very useful!
Mule
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
hi need help with whirpool fridge freezer
0.68uf and 0.47uf front display panel
i have replacement capacitors but they are bigger 20mm high
will these fit. on either side of the pcb
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Last night I decided to have ago at swapping out the capacitors from the front board. I had the flickering display, clicking buzzer, no ice machine and flashing light when using the water dispenser.
I used the 2uf capacitor from the bitsbox website having read here that 2x 1 uf capacitors in parallel worked for others.
I have had a partial success.
The clicking is now reduced significantly, no longer is it like a machie gun, but it is still clicking.
I have left it over night, and the ice machine has produced ice, and dispenses it. I have also discovered that the fridge was in vacation mode before, but now I have been able to switch it back to normal mode, previously pressing this button had no effect. I can now set the fridge temperature also.
Also I can now put the fridge in standby and turn back on, as previously it wouldn’t always turn back on easily, and would require a few hours of pressing the button to get it back on.
With hindsight it probably needs the 2.2uf capacitor as the flickering suggests the capacitor is under spec.
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