On 06/10/2020 09:16, JohnP wrote:
Normal fridge - not auto anything - chiller plate at rear - ice compartment
in the top.

Yesterday there was a pool of water on the floor! Wife had recently put
some shopping in it. Cleaned it up - poked out the drain hole. Motor was
warm - thermostat would not call for the motor to run!

It may depend where the thermostat sensor is located. If fitted close to
the chiller plate (as it is on my larder fridge) then the sensor may not
see a rise in air temperature for, say, 5 minutes after a door has been
left open as it also requires a previously cooled plate (still full of
cold refrigerant) to also warm up. If the compressor was warm it may
have just finished a cooling cycle and taken the chiller plate (and
sensor) below the average operating temperature for the inside of the
fridge so adjusting the thermostat would make no difference to starting
the compressor again, especially if already set to a lower temperature
setting.

You diagnosis of a blocked pipe causing the pool of water was probably
the only problem.


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