Fridge worry
 

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!


An hour later it was running again!

Thinking it through, could the motor have a thermal overload and it had
been forced to work too hard?

Should I provide remedial training for my wife and affix a notise saying
door must not relain open for more than 30 seconds?

Fridge worry
 

I really don't know I think fridges are ganging up on us, after me doing the
suggested action of turning off with doors open for a long time and then
starting it over, It seemed my water problem had gone, that is until
yesterday morning when although the fridge was only 6 degrees, the puddle
was back. In your case though with a drain hole could the tray its supposed
to drain into be damaged cracked or rusty, depending on what its made off,
you can usually feel it on top or over the muter by the looks of things. Its
supposed to evaporate into the air harmlessly, not go on the floor.
Obviously there will be condensation in any fridge, so the water has to go
somewhere, in mine, unfortunately there is no drain hole. The self
dehumidifying seems to rely on circulating air off through the same fan
dehumidifier which does the freezer and of course that works fine, but the
fridge suck out vent appears to not be sucking as much as the cold air in
is blowing!

Bah humbug. I hate throwing away things that may simply need somebody to
unscrew the right panel and clean out a pipe!
Brian

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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!


An hour later it was running again!

Thinking it through, could the motor have a thermal overload and it had
been forced to work too hard?

Should I provide remedial training for my wife and affix a notise saying
door must not relain open for more than 30 seconds?

Fridge worry
 

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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Fridge worry
 

On 06/10/2020 09:25, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I really don't know I think fridges are ganging up on us, after me doing the
suggested action of turning off with doors open for a long time and then
starting it over, It seemed my water problem had gone, that is until
yesterday morning when although the fridge was only 6 degrees, the puddle
was back. In your case though with a drain hole could the tray its supposed
to drain into be damaged cracked or rusty, depending on what its made off,
you can usually feel it on top or over the muter by the looks of things. Its
supposed to evaporate into the air harmlessly, not go on the floor.
Obviously there will be condensation in any fridge, so the water has to go
somewhere, in mine, unfortunately there is no drain hole.

Didn't you say that at the back of the fridge or freezer there is a tube
down to the compressor. It must come from somewhere inside of the unit
and its purpose is to probably drain water so that the heat of the
compressor evaporates it to atmosphere.




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Yes but you cannot tell where it goes. Its on the extreme right back into
the corner of the tray. From other enquires I think it goes to somewhere
behind the fan in the freezer, which is described as the de humidifier fan.
The problem often is that the tube is blocked somewhere down its very long
run, and eventually it overflows and tips its contents into the innards of
the system, which probably ends up either seeping into the insulation, or
into the fridge below it. Without a proper manual its hard to say other than
that. I have the thermostat at normal, the temp in the fridge is around 5c
and the freezer seems to be -15c, nominally. We are now waiting to see if it
floods again.
There is no drain in the fridge, three people have looked now.
Brian

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On 06/10/2020 09:25, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I really don't know I think fridges are ganging up on us, after me doing
the
suggested action of turning off with doors open for a long time and then
starting it over, It seemed my water problem had gone, that is until
yesterday morning when although the fridge was only 6 degrees, the puddle
was back. In your case though with a drain hole could the tray its
supposed
to drain into be damaged cracked or rusty, depending on what its made
off,
you can usually feel it on top or over the muter by the looks of things.
Its
supposed to evaporate into the air harmlessly, not go on the floor.
Obviously there will be condensation in any fridge, so the water has to
go
somewhere, in mine, unfortunately there is no drain hole.

Didn't you say that at the back of the fridge or freezer there is a tube
down to the compressor. It must come from somewhere inside of the unit and
its purpose is to probably drain water so that the heat of the compressor
evaporates it to atmosphere.




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Fridge worry
 

the only problem.



I can't see where the thermostat sensor is located.