[BruceRobertson]

Re: Neff Oven – Internal Fuse?

Thanks for that Martin. The fix was actually somewhat simpler and more embarrassing 😳

When I replaced the element I did it from inside the oven and just found two spade connectors. This afternoon I removed the oven completely and took off the back panel (electricity supply isolated at fusebox) only to find a third spade terminal lost in the insulation at the back of the oven that had come off during my initial attempt. It’s now connected and the new element is heating up fine.

Thanks for our help, much appreciated.

[BruceRobertson]

Re: Bosch Frost-Free KGU35115GB – resets itself

Well after 24 hours of being on it started resetting itself with a click every 30s. Have checked the control board which seems substantially different from the KGV model discussed on here a lot.

The sensor connector on the RHS of the control board is a 8 way connector block with only seven of the connectors used.

The wires on the left and appear to relate to the magnetic freezer door sensor. I’ve confirmed that this goes open/closed circuit when the door is open/shut.

The other wires appear to be the temperature sensors from around the fridge/freezer. They come in as four separate twin-core blue/brown cables. The blues are all connected together in to one connection into the eight way block and the brown wires from each sensor get a separate connection each in the eight way block.

I’ve measured the resistance between the common blue connection and the brown connection for each sensor and they’re roughly similar (6.50/7.15/7.04/6.43 KOhm) which makes me think the sensors are OK as they’re consistent with each other when they’re all at room temperature.

The oddity does appear to be the freezer door sensor. As soon as the freezer door is shut it triggers the reset cycle. With the freezer door open the compressor seems happy to run and the fridge section chill sdown nicely. As an experiment i’ve removed the magnet from the top of the freezer door which at least means I can shut it without triggering the thing to reset itself every 30s. I’m assuming the downside of this is that the freezer fan will never come on if it believes the door is open?

For the time being I’ve left it running like this to see if it gets down to temperature. Does this sound like a failed control board? If so I’m happy to replace it.

[BruceRobertson]

Re: Bosch Frost-Free KGU35115GB – resets itself

Well, it’s been on for 18 hours now. The fridge is down to temperature but the freezer is only at -10.

As far as I can tell the freezer fan is running. It ceratinly sounds like it is, but obviously it stops as soon as I open the door. Can I just use a magnet to fool the switch and confirm that it does actually run?

[BruceRobertson]

Re: Bosch SGS0922 Pump pulsing when starting

Thanks, kind of confimed the direction I was heading in. For £10 it’s worth a punt.

will report back on success or failure 🙂

[BruceRobertson]

Re: Brandt Fridge/Freezer Problem – Fuse gone?

Part turned up yesterday. Fitted it last night and fridge is now back working! Many thanks for the remote diagnosis Dave and speedy delivery of the part.

Thanks for the pliers tip expertcat. Wasn’t being quite forceful enough with it. You know the usual story though, lever something out and discover afterwards there was a nifty little clip you’re supposed to release, but its now too late and you have lots of broken bits of plastic…

[BruceRobertson]

Re: Brandt Fridge/Freezer Problem – Fuse gone?

Hi Dave

Thanks for your help. email is on its way.

One quick question though. I’ve removed the fascia at the top of the fridge freezer, but I can’t quite see how you release the control board. I don’t want to go using brute force if there’s some more gentle method of persuading it to shift.

It looks like there might be some clips along the back, but the release mechanism isn’t obvious to a dummy like me.

cheers

Bruce

[BruceRobertson]

Re: Brandt Fridge/Freezer Problem – Fuse gone?

Hi Dave

You’re right about the model number. I should have been paying more attention when I had my head stuck in the salad drawer tgis morning. The control board sounds like it might be worth a try and its worth some effort to avoid adding to the fridge mountain.

Is it easy enough to swap out the old control board? I’m assuming its at the top of the fridge behind the fascia?

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