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Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!

DickM wrote:I have a Whirlpool AFG7060 (8549 706 15002) upright freezer that seems to have suffered the same fate as the American freezers in this thread. It has been ‘chattering’ with the temperature fluctuating wildly for some time, but has just given up completely and defrosted!

Is the control board likely to be similar to the ones mentioned above, and if so, will changing the capacitors save me forking out for a new PCB? And does the fact that it’s now stopped completely an indication that I’ve left it too long and the PCB is beyond repair?

Cheers, Dick.

I just had the same problem on a 7060 – it was caused by failure of a capacitor in the power supply. If you open up the top panel, the cap nearest the transformer is the one that needs replacing. It’s a 16v 1000uF nominally, but the one I’ve just removed measured at 80uF – nowhere near enough to keep the voltage level while the relay turns on. So the freezer ends up trapped in a loop:
1) Thermostat turns on the relay to start the compressor
2) Voltage drops
3) Thermostat electronics turns off due to low voltage
4) Relay turns off due to no thermostat
5) Voltage recovers
6) Thermostat turns back on
7) Return to step (1)

As your freezer has stopped working completely you may have broken the relay too – they only have a finite number of switches in them and the cycle above gets through a lot of them rather quickly!

R

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