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Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!

The loud clicking coming from the “rear” of these “American style side by side” fridge freezers is usually caused by the rear control board. This is a couple of hundred pounds to change though, and if your unit was pre 2003 model, you really need to change the front panel control board at the same time, adding up to around 3 to 4 hundred pounds in total.

However, in most cases, the cause of the “loud clicking” noise, which can also stop momentarily when you open both doors at the same time, comes from either of the the three black relays on this control board, resulting in various fridge freezer malfunctions, as this is the main control board for the unit remember. The cause of this is not the relays, but usually one or more of the blue capacitors on this board having died slowly over time. The repair kit from ukwhitegods here fixed mine completely, and the freezer, icemaker and water dispenser all work normally again. (havent for years until freexer finally packed in altogether last week) This repair does not need any other replacement parts, so a very economic alternative, even if you have to get an electrician to do the repair for you, which is quite easy if you are used to basic soldering.

Note that if your unit “only” has a “quiet ticking” noise, accompanied by annoying flashing display panel / lights, but works okay otherwise, this fault is more likley to be the front control panel, so identify if you have a “loud rear clicking” noise, or a “quiet front ticking noise / flashing light problem first of all. Loud clicking = rear panel capacitors, quiet ticking and flashing = front control panel unit. Hope this helps guys, I changed the capacitors one by one incidentally, powering up after each change, and it was in fact the small round one, C2, causing most of the trouble on mine. Most of the time it seems to be the large rectangle one at C1 position, but it can be any or all combinations, so change all of them out. Hope this helps guys, Onibhoy.

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Re: Whirlpool S20E RBB2V-A/G Control Panel

Hi chubtor, to remove the front panel,remove the drip dray from your water dispenser. You then remove the 2 philips screws revealed when you remove the drip tray. Switch your appliance off, gently pull the bottom of the water dispenser unit free from the door about an inch at the bottom first only, then push up on the unit to remove it from two plastic retainer details on the top of the dispenser tray, and finally remove from unit far enough to unclip the two connector harnesses from the dispenser unit left and right hand side. Front control panel can easilly be removed / replaced from there. Onibhoy, Troon

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