Bob Minchin wrote:
Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:


If you can, take the cover off the evaporator plate and see if it is
all frozen up inside. If it is, the timer could be the fault. Maybe.
There should be/might be little white plastic plugs holding the
cover in place.


The evaporator seems to be just tubes and fins with air blown
through. I have a hunch that my hot air defrosting is just melting a
little ice which then drips down onto other ice and freezes again.

I called it a plate in error. Frost free do indeed have tubes and fins with
a fan blower motor. My experience with refrigeration ended in 1999.
So you did take the cover off then?


I'll try looking at the control board again. It has a couple of triacs
on it and I suspect they switch the fan and the heater.

If I can be certain which is the defrost heater, I might be able to
power that up manually, leave the freezer loaded but switched off and
accelerate the defrost process? Worth a go I reckon.

Bob