On 7/16/2014 11:24 AM, nestork wrote:

Well, after manually defrosting the fridge by unplugging it and leaving
it to warm up for a few days, I plugged the fridge in and left a plastic
cup of water in the freezer compartment overnight. Normally, that's
long enough to freeze the water into a solid block of ice.

But, the water didn't freeze.

And, apart from defrosting itself once every 20 hours or so, the
compressor and evaporator fan were running continuously overnight so far
as I can tell.

My next step is to take the freezer floor out of the fridge so I can see
the evaporator coils and how frost accumulates on them. At this point
I'm expecting to see proof of a low freon charge, and am thinking I'm
going to be buying a new fridge shortly.

I'll leave the fridge running with the water in a plastic glass in the
freezer for another day or two just to be certain that it's not gonna
freeze. Then I'll take the freezer floor out and see what's happening
at the evaporator coil.




From the descrip so far, sure sounds like low
refrigerant charge "freon".

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