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Thanks Tony. The environment in the kitchen is around 20 degrees Celsius. The fridge is around 4 to 5 degrees Celsius at all times, seems fairly rock steady. What are your views on the erratic temps in the graph for the freezer ? I realise freezers have a defrost cycle every so often, but it seems to not stay close enough to -18 for my liking. It looks like it has some kind of pattern, but not sure what it is doing or why the swing is so broad. I just hope this isn’t some kind of odd way Beko do their defrost cycle. My old Hotpoint used to be auto-defrost and would stay between -19 and -16 at all times.
I have decided to order a new fridge freezer on Thursday. It is a shame, as I am sure I could do DIY to get there in the end, but for the sake of £250 for a new one I am not sure if the effort is worth it for a 11 year old fridge freezer.
The reason I am thinking of going for Beko again is one of size and price and noise, I have a 55cm max width and 60cm max depth issue. A lot of the better fridge freezers are 60cm width but this would block off the plug socket as it is in an enclosed area.Which magazine gave the narrower Hisense poor reviews and Hotpoints too noisy. Also I am limited to under £300 and don’t want a dispenser this time as I have found it takes up too much space inside the door.
Just out of curiosity, do you think a new sensor in the fridge would solve the issue ? Sadly the analogue thermostat I bought was not correct, as there isn’t one in the light housing.
An update on my situation 🙂 Firstly, just a quick apology, I didn’t realise when I posted here that you were also running a store that sold spares, I found here via Google so assumed it was just a forum. I say this because I did order a thermostat and mini control board for the fridge freezer, but I did so elsewhere, I would have ordered via you given your help if I had realised you were also a seller. For whatever reason I didn’t pay enough attention to also read the signatures as I have now seen you mention it there.
Sadly however both items did not solve the issue. I ordered the thermostat only to find my Beko doesn’t use the analogue one, so that was a waste of time. I then got the mini control board, that goes in the light housing, and that didn’t help. Which I knew it probably wouldn’t but it was worth a try I thought given how easy to change.
I guess I am just stubborn, as I realise given it is 11 years old getting a new one is the best way to go, I just hate anything beating me 🙂 The annoying thing is the fridge temp is perfect, so I feel like I am ditching something that at least 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} works perfectly. It is just the damn freezer and it’s constant mass temp fluctuating. Currently going between -24 and -9 which is still too much of a swing, but this changes day to day, some days it goes as warm as -6. Everything stays frozen, which is good, but clearly it is not right for longevity.
I was very tempted to try and change the sensors, but that might just be too much for me to bother with. Can I just ask a couple of questions ?
1. Since removing the light housing unit to change the PCB I find the temperature knob falls off easily if touched or changed, I have to now change the temp on the dial very carefully and slowly. Any ideas why this may be ?
2. Are sensors the same as thermistors ? I just saw your page on changing the 2 sensors (one on fridge, one in freezer), are these the same as thermistors ? I am 99{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} sure they are, just double checking.
3. What is the best brand of freezer under £300 ? I was quite happy with the Beko for 10 of the 11 years I had it, so I don’t mind going for another again, but is there better for such a budget price ? Noise is a factor, so Hotpoint are out, they are really noisy.
So if curious for your own websites knowledge, the CDA563F/1 does NOT have an analogue thermostat in the light housing, all that is in there is the small PCB board.
Thanks again for all your help. Oh and below is the latest temp graph if needed, there does seem to be a pattern there at least, just too warm.
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Well, I ordered up a new thermostat to take a chance before ditching it. I saw a video on how to replace it. I think I will get a sense of achievement if I do it. I realise it could be 1 of 10 things, but this seemed easiest to try. I would have no idea how to install a thermistor so thought this the easiest of the options if I were to try just one. Worth one last ditch attempt 🙂 Cheers for your help.
Thanks. Would potato and vegetarian based food still be okay ? I have loads of frozen roasts and chips and jackets and Quorn in there, I presume other than taste there is no risk with them ?
Thanks pal, that is what I needed to hear, I was concerened maybe Beko had an odd way of keeping it defrosted by swinging the temps massively. Before I finally ditch it, any idea where the thermostat goes and how easy they are to fit ? I see some online for £10. I realise that may not fix it, but for a tenner may be worth a punt if easy to fit.
Thanks for the info. Just an update. I opened the panel off the back that is inside the freezer, used a hairdryer, but it wasn’t very frosty at all there, very clean in fact. But I melted the thin layer that was there. Sadly same problem now so it hasn’t helped. Does anyone know here if this could be the way Beko make their auto defrost freezers, or is it 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} definitely wrong to swing that much on a daily basis ? I am worried about getting another freezer and it just being the same for some brands. When I contacted Beko they didn’t say, they just told me to contact Domestic & General if I needed it fixed. I have tried to contact them again and will see if they reply on Monday.
If these temps are 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} abnormal for a auto defrost, then I would feel more satisfied in just getting a new one. On the graph it looks like it hits the correct -18, but it just doesn’t stay there, it goes down to -7 and then back up again, over and over. Then occasionally it jumps to -23 or colder.
The 2 photos below were taken inside before I warmed all the white lining off the coils with the hairdryer on low. The close ups of the hardware is just in case useful. So this is inside the back panel of a 2009 Beko Fridge Freezer.
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[IMG2=JSON]{“data-align”:”none”,”data-size”:”full”,”height”:”600″,”width”:”800″,”src”:”http://www.sencode.com/freezer2.jpg”}[/IMG2]P.S : Tonight I came in the kitchen at midnight and the freezer was on, I came in again at 3.30am (I am awake until 7am as I sleep odd hours) and the motor was still on and it was on a massive minus 29 degrees, it may even have been colder but the temp was off the scale. I turned the dial from 5 down to 4 and as I turned it the motor stopped. But I have tried it at 3 and 4 (the above graphs are when it was on 3) and so the dial doesn’t seem to change the fact it drops down to minus 6 each time the motor isn’t running,.
Thanks. Any idea what causes a compressor to overheat ? What spare part could fix that ? Yes, you are right, the PDF with the temps on says the average is minus 12 degrees. The fluctuating temps I realise are not good and will likely cause freezer burn to the food.
Not sure if this might sort it ? https://www.bekospares.co.uk/control-board-pcb/product.pl?pid=3959540&query=CDA563FW{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}2F1
Lucky you said that about the hot air gun, as I have one of those and might have been tempted to try it on low, I won’t now, ha. Although I haven’t opened the panel up so not even sure if there is a build up of ice.
Due to my concerns of all the food in the fridge, any idea how I can open it up to save defrosting for 48 hours ? Like some people use a hair dryer to speed it up. Would this be inside a panel inside the freezer, if so any ideas how it opens up ? Thanks.
Thanks. Samuri, but normally issues with frost build up mean it doesn’t get up to temp at all (or the other end of the scale), this is getting up to minus 24 but then dropping to minus 7. The actual freezer doesn’t have any frost build up except inside plastic sealed wrapping, so the actual interior is otherwise ice/frost free and very clean.So there doesn’t appear to be frost build up on the unit.
Thanks. What confuses me is it seems to go up to minus 23 when the motor is running, but then slowly drops to approx minus 7 before going back up again to about minus 23 when the motor/fan runs again. I am not sure what exact parts issue would cause that swing. Beko annoyingly just told me to contact Domestic & General, but they won’t advise without booking an engineer. I don’t want to book an engineer without knowing what the issue is likely to be. I am really just curious what sort of part of the freezer goes to cause this type of symptom. The fridge side of it is perfect, I upped the dial to 6 a couple of hours ago and the fridge was approx 4 Celsius, which is perfect, but the freezer went up to minus 24, too cold, the motor was staying on and the fridge was starting to frost, so I turned it down to 5 on the dial and the motor stopped, so to me that denotes the thermostat may be working to some degree, but it is not retaining that temperature, and also even on 3 on the dial it goes up to minus 23 which just seems too cold to jump up to. The ideal temps would be minus 17 to 20 and to keep that steady. Some of my packeted food (such as burgers) has heavy ice inside the sealed plastic wrapping around the burgers, which I presume denotes “freezer burn” due to fluctuating temps.
Do you know if door seals will cause this issue, and if so, how do I test them ? If so would only the freezer door cause issues when I have a freezer temp problem, or can a fridge door seal also cause temp issues with the freezer ? I have a laser temperature device, would that help ? I tried a £10 note and it seemed to have some resistance there which is good.
The fridge freezer model is Beko CDA563FW/1
Yes, we are thinking of getting a new one, but if I can fix this one myself for a tenner then I might give it a go first.
Thanks for your advice,
