"alt-hvac Moderated" wrote in message
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What I get from this is that

I'm saying: Sounds like the heater element is broken, since the OP can
thaw
it, and it runs again.

Turtle is saying: Sounds like the heater element is broken, because the
three wire defrost timer isn't advancing, and it staying locked in the
"run"
mode.

Aside from describing the theory and operation of three wire verus four
wire
defrost timers, what is different between our observations?

" Shilpa Singh" wrote in message
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**** 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.

Read the three line marked **** in front of them. It states that it will
stop after running 2 or 3 months and stay off for a day or two and then
start off on it's own again. A Broken defrost element will not cause a
refrigerator to stop running for a day or two and start running again.
############# If it has a regular defrost timer system on it. Breaking of
the defrost element will not cause it to say off for a day or two. Having a
broken defrost element will have no effect on the refrigerator turning off
or on and will cycle like it is suppose to do but it may freeze up. So it
will have no effect of it turning off or on at all. ###########A 3 wire
defrost time set up when the defrost element burns will cause the
refrigerator to stop running and stay off for every. It will never come back
on in a day or two. The timer motor will be cut of the power supply and
never come back on.

Stormy you need to go down to your nearest small appliance warehouse and get
the book [ Whirlpool Trouble Shooting Guide ] on trouble shooting Whirlpool
refrigerator and freezers. It's about $5.99 + Tax and it will guide you
through just about every part of the refrigerators & freezers and how it
works and what does what. It will tell you how to test every part and give
you a check list to go through to find a problem with them. If you read this
book and understood it. Your trouble shooting skills will be increased
1,000% atleast.

Now if you really want to know something about these items. You could go to
your local Library and check out the book call Electricity 101 by i think
Stuart & Stevens of something like that. If you read it and understood it.
You might be able to post here with some knownledge on what these
refrigerator are doing and as to what might be wrong with them. As of right
now your two books away from a good answer on refrigerators repair.

Learning to trouble shoot refrigerator is more that you think. Right now you
think they are a very simple device and you can call a problem right off
with very little thought. If so your dead wrong for a refrigerator is one of
the hardest things in this business to trouble shoot. I would much rather
have a 30 ton gas package unit to trouble shoot than a refrigerator. A
refrigerator can whip a good refrigeration man's ass in a heart beat. there
is more to them refrigerator than you think.

TURTLE