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Re: Fisher & Paykel E521T fridge
Well I finally got the repairer back – out comes the magic multimeter and guess what – a dodgy defrost heater element!!! Another $65 and the fridge is all fixed.
I should have trusted my research, instinct and advice on here and fixed it myself but oh well! LOL
Thanks for the great website and advice.
Till next time,
Cheers,Moose 😆
Re: Fisher & Paykel E521T fridge
Despite the advice on how to get into the ‘workings’ of the freezer and against my better judgement I contacted a couple of fidge repairers who both said to contact the Fisher & Paykel service centre as they didn’t touch F & P fridges with electronic thermostats.
So I made an appontment and 5 days later on Friday (Great service – not!) the man arrives. I tell him the problems and meekly suggest that it is a defrost heater element problem – but he is the expert and I’ll leave it to him. He test the fridge with some fan-dangled multimeter and confidently states it’s a temperature sensor (the one behind the freezer panel, not the one the protrudes through the rear panel into the freezer). He says that it is reading 58 degrees celcius so the freezer is continually running (didn’t sound like it had been to me though!). He replaces it and charges $135 AUS for 15 minutes work. Tells me that I will need to defrost the freezer as it’s covered in ice and explains how to put it all back together.
I enquire as to whether that part is prone to breaking done to which he replies that it is rare!. Whilst defrosting the fidge I decide to check the defrost heater element with a meter and cannot get any reading that the element ‘circuit’ is in working order – but the expert said he had reapired it and his ‘you beaut’ multi-meter was always right!
I put it all together, turn the fridge on and it starts beeping. I ‘reset’ it and hope that this is due to it still sensing that a defrost has not been done. I ‘pray’ that all will be okay but sure enough at 4:30pm it starts to beep!. I ring F&P service centre who ring the technician but because of the great Aussie POETS day tradition (POETS = P#ss Off Early, Tomorrows Saturday) he has knocked off for the day (despite living only 10 minutes way). So now I have to wait another 5 days (unless he can squeeze me in earlier).
I will update how this goes. Of course I am cranky at myself for not going with my instincts and doing it myself, but I just didn’t have the confidence especially after speaking to fridge repairers who wouldn’t service F&P electronic fridges!Moose 👿
Re: Fisher & Paykel E521T fridge
Thanks very much for the reply. Will let you know how I go,
Cheers,
Moose
Re: F & P 703
Thanks Penguin45, and thanks for the quickness of your reply. It took longer to write the e-mail than it did to actually find the ‘OOB’ switch!
I found that after MrsMoose had well & truely overloaded the washer with dressing gowns and towels! (will she ever learn?). The OOB lever was caught ‘open’ from lint/dirt where it pivots. Cleaned this out, checked the switch with a multimeter and thought ‘now worries, it’ll work now’ – but no, it didn’t (and this was my day off!).
Took the machine outside (no leaks on the floor) and took the pump off to check for blockages (none) cleaned everything and checked the pipes (for kinks etc) – generally gave it a clean & inspection, put it back together, plugged it in – and then got the last 2 lights on the right were flashing alternately and the 3rd one from the right was alight. “CRIKEY!” – straight back to the forum to look this fault up. Went back and did another diagnostic check – same ’43’ code. Did a ‘re-set’ as per penguin45’s advice to others – nothing. Did another re-set and pushed a couple of buttons (just thought it would help – LOL) and it fired up!
“You bloody beauty!”. Put in a small load and it was going perfectly. But, when it got to the last part of the spin cycle, it re-started and started to do the entire wash sequence again! Clicked the ‘advance’ button and went back to the last ‘spin cycle’ – watched to see what happened and instead of it slowing down to finish, the spin cycle stopped as if I lifted the lid. What to do now I thought? Well I pulled the plug out, waited a couple of minutes, re-started it, advanced to the spin cycle and watched (again) -low and behold it finished the spin cycle, slowed down properly and let out those beautiful 5 ‘beeps’ to say it was finished.
3 Loads later it’s still working properly.
PENGUIN 45 – THANK YOU for all your advice in these forums. You have no doubt saved me a couple of hundred bucks from not having to call in the dreaded serviceman. There is numerous cold beers waiting for you here in ‘OZ’ if you ever get out this way,
Cheers,
MrMoose
(PS – thanks to the others who post here too)
