Dear Turtle,
After reading your lengthy piece on three wire defrost systems, I'm OK
with the concept of cumulative run. However, I could make no sense out of
much of what you said. Something about when the unit is in defrost it sends
power out to the neutral through the defrost timer (which I'm OK with that)
and somehow that advances the timer off the neutral (huh?).

"It will have only 3 wires run to the defrost timer and will have the
defrost
timer wire [2] run from the run over to the defrost element and if the timer
is in run. It will send power through the timer motor and on to netural out
through the defrost element. then when it is in defrost. It will send power
through the defrost timer motor to netural out through the compressor
circuit. Wired this way it will only log time of the 6 hours of defrost time
and only go into defrost ever 6 hours of the compressor run time and can go
into defrost as long as 2 days before getting 6 hours of run time"

So, you're saying that the defrost timer neutral goes though the defrost
element? That's fine, cause it's only a watt or two. Won't even see the
heater element. Unless it has a terminator element (bimetal) and then the
run time will be only when the evap is cold. And when it's in defrost, that
the timer neutral goes though the compressor? Should oughta do that OK, it's
only trying to drain off a watt or two. Won't even see any resistance in the
compressor. Still, it seems easier to just neutral the timer and be done
with it.


I decided for curiosity to go back to the original post. And what I
found was that the original customer's request sounds like a bad defrost
heater element, since it shuts down and thawing helps shorten the recovery
time.

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"Shilpa Singh" wrote in message
om...
We have Hotpoint Fridge 1998 and it stops after a month or two months
or more or less and then stays like that for a day or two or more and
then starts off on its own.

I have opened the Freezer panel on the evaporator coil and have found
that I can reduce the time it is off by using hair dries to remove ice
from the evaporator coil.

Other than that there is no difference in working of this fridge. I
have read about defrost timers etc but nothing correlates to this
behavior. Any suggestion. We don't use the Freezer part for meat it
has light stuff only e.g. Ice cream or some mixed veg bags and some
fries. No meat.

Any suggestion will help me get over this periodic aggravation.

Thanks,