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Re: BEKO fridge freezer problem
Well after 3 visits from Beko’s recommended local Service Engineer (different Engineer each visit) its confirmed that the problem is a foamed in sensor. According to the third Engineer the actual sensor may be ok but its probably come away from the point where it was originally glued to, so its not correctly sensing the temperature within the fridge, hence calling for more cooling. This resulting in over cooling.
Now as this unit is less than 4 years old I may have a go at repairing it myself. IF I have any luck I’ll post on here…
Thanks for all your input and help.
Re: BEKO fridge freezer problem
Appreciate you taking time to reply, thanks.
Why is the sensor foamed in I wonder. Have you any idea where it’s physically located? Any electrical component can fail and if it means the whole unit has to be discarded because of the failure strikes me as poor design – or planned obsolescence of course. Maybe BEKO want to sell a replacement fridge/freezer that will last another 3 or 4 years. My daughter’s BEKO washing machine gave problems when it was just out of warranty as well so I suspect she’ll not be buying BEKO again. My old dad always used to say ‘buy cheap, buy twice’ Trouble is this wasn’t particularly cheap…
If I could find a wiring diagram/cct diagram I’m sure I could make this infernal machine work – if only to prove to myself that it was possible.
Thanks again for your patience.
Re: BEKO fridge freezer problem
“This will be the fridge evaorrator sensor faulty and it is foamed in so it is not repairable”
Now that’s all I need…the unit is only 3 or 4 years old.
Realistically this could be repairable with a bit of ingenuity – anyone out there done this? Presumably the sensor will be a two wire device whose resistance changes with temperature, which will be connected to the main control board at the rear. I presume it could also be a make & break sensor though as the temperature is adjustable I doubt it. I’m assuming it’s not one of those old capillary things… Anyone know which wires on which connector block on the control board it connects to? Surely it’s just a matter of getting a replacement from the freezer compartment to the the board? A copy of the wiring diagram would be helpful.
I may be over-simplifying things here but in over 40 years of electronics I’ve often found that there are ways to get ’round such problems. Never admit defeat – especially as it’s me that will have to pay for the new one !!!
Re: BEKO fridge freezer problem
Thanks for your input.
I’ve replaced the main control board at the rear of the unit and that has not made any difference, the fridge over-cools, milk freezing solid.
Adjusting the thermostat makes no difference. I’ve removed the small pcb inside the dome light fitting and checked the pot and it’s ok. I’ve also checked the wire continuity between the thermostat and the appropriate connector on the main control board at the rear and all is ok. So I could only assume there’s a sensor somwhere which I can’t find so as a last resort I called my local BEKO recommended ‘engineer’.
The engineer quickly informed me that the control board had failed 😮 I explained that I had already changed that, so he then said the small pcb with the thermostat pot had failed and that he would get one 😮 Now as far as I can see there’s nothing else on the pcb that I might have missed so changing that shouldn’t make any difference.
If changing the thermostat pcb DOES cure the fault I’ll be a happy chappy but I’m not holding my breath…
