[salmon12]

Re: Hotpoint FFAA52 Not Working

electrofix wrote:it is obvious something has pulled a lot of current. fitting a new board would only result in the same thing happening. you have to find the reason.
on the second pic something is connected to the connection where the track is damaged. you need to find out what that is first
you may be able to resurect the board by replacing the damaged tracks by wires and soldering them to the componets

Dave

Sorry it’s been a while – I haven’t had time to investigate further so I bought a 2nd hand mini fridge freezer to use until I can hopefully get this one fixed.

I have checked the connector which attaches to the damaged track and using a continuity test on my multimeter it shows that it connects to a terminal on the compressor. It’s a blue wire.

There is also a start capacitor that connects to this terminal and another terminal on the compressor. Could a faulty start capacitor be causing the problems?

Here is a photo of the connector that was attached to the damaged track on the board.

Thanks for the help.

[salmon12]

Re: Hotpoint FFAA52 Not Working

Thanks for the help, it does appear to be the control board.
I had to take the fridge door off to remove the panel containing the temperature control knob and the control board was behind that.

Here is a picture of the back of the board:

And a close up:

This is the front of the board:

Do you think this looks repairable or should i just buy a new board? The part number you gave me seems to be correct thanks.

Thank you for the help in finding the fault

[salmon12]

Re: Hotpoint FFAA52 Not Working

Thanks Dave,

I have checked the compressor and it’s cold.
There is a Fast Freeze switch but when i press it nothing happens so if that is supposed to override the thermistor i’m guessing that rules out a faulty thermistor?

Does this all suggest it’s the board? Do you have any idea where the board would be?

Thanks again for the help

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