Al Bundy wrote:

Jeff Wisnia wrote in
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Tad wrote:

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the place for this question, but I'm eager to
try.

About two months ago, I came home to my apartment to find a VERY loud
refrigerator and a totally defrosted freezer. I unplugged the unit,
cleaned up the mess, called my landlord, and told him the issue. He's
a nice guy, and ordered a new fridge that very hour. In the meantime
(about thirty minutes later), I plugged the unit back in, and it
started working again. I called my landlord back, and told him, but
he decided to not cancel the order, since my fridge was old anyway,
and clearly unreliable.

So a new one comes, two days later. It's an Avanti FF106W,
Refrigerator/Freezer. I'm delighted, of course, and I buy all new
food, etc. But when I come home the next day, the freezer has
defrosted, just like the old one did, and everything is melting.

I call the landlord, he calls the dealer, they send a repairman
(three days later), and he says the door doesn't fit well, so they
have to order a new one. That comes a week later, the guy who
installs it says he doesn't see why a leaking door would be the
problem, but he installs the new one anyway. The problem continues;
the freezer freezes and then defrosts.

I call my landlord, and say that the fridge still doesn't work. He
calls the place he bought it, insists on a new one.

Here's the thing: the new one came last week, and it does the SAME
THING. It freezes, and then defrosts. It doesn't run loud, the light
always works, but stuff doesn't stay frozen.

My landlord called an electrician. He came and checked everything,
but didn't find any problems. We tried running the fridge, via an
extension cord, off another plug; nothing changed.

Any solutions?

Tad


Might be a bad thermostat, which opens its contacts to stop the
compressor when the fridge gets down to setpoint temperature, but
doesn't reclose its contacts as soon as it should when the fridge
starts warming up.

It could also be a "funny" defrost timer.

I'd ask that another fridge be delivered to you. You could go on like
that forever unless they send over a COMPETANT repair person who can
stick a temperature sensor inside the unit and be able to stay around
for however many hours it takes for the problem to show up.

HTH,

Jwff




In all three - old one plus two new ones?!!!!


You're right of course, I misread the OP and didn't note that he'd
gotten a second new unit already, my bad.

If he takes a motor driven analog electric clock and plugs it into the
same circuit he'd see pretty easily if the power drops out while he's
not around. (Unless it goes off for eggzackly 12 hours. G)

Jeff

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