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Bone emailed me the following reply….
Before you start, disconect the unit from the mains supply, the heaters and thermal fuse work at 240V mains supply. I accept no responsibilty or liability for any actions you carry out in relation to the information supplied below.
Both the fridge and freezer compartments contain evaporator coils, and defrost heaters. Because there is a defrost heater in both compartments, there is also a thermal fuse in each compartment.
You need to remove all of the shelves, and then remove the back panel. The top halp comes out first, and the the bottom half (behind the drawers) afterwards. You will need to unplug the lamp and fan connections to be able to remove the back panels.
With those panels out of the way, you will now be able to see the coil, and heater. The heater is actually built into the evaporator coil, so unless you have seen these before it is not immediately obvious. There is also a metal drain tray under the coil, and this has a heater element glued to its underside.
There is at the top right of the coil a collection of plugs. From memory, one was the sensor, one was the heater, and the other was the thermal fuse. They should be pretty apparent when you get in there. (The sensor is clipped to the fridge pipe where it enters the cabinet, top left corner of the coil on mine)
The thermal fuse should be located in amongst the header of the coil and on mine was wrapped in a piece of insulating foam. Check if this is open circuit, if it is, then therein lies your problem. If it is not open circuit, then maybe the heater element is faulty, or maybe the temperature sensor. On mine it was the thermal fuse.
Good luck.
Re: Yet another Samsung side by side problem
Hi Andy,
Please can I point you towards my post at viewtopic.php?f=33&t=10781 with regard to your Samsung Fridge.
I have the same problems you were experiencing, and I think you may be able to help me physically identify the components that have failed.
My forum post is asking for the physical location of the thermal fuse/defrost sensor/heating element and their appearance/wire colours. I imagine they’re behind the plastic panel behind the salad crisper but I still can’t find them!
You made things sound so easy in your post!
(If this has ended up in your personal email inbox, you can email me back on richard_emm@hotmail.com.)
Thanks,
Richard
