Freezer temper 25 (selected -4) 2 deprost not working. 1 is working 1 is not working (inside fan area)

Hello;

My name is Peter. I am a retired field service refrigeration technician.

There are several things to check:

1.) Door Gasket -Take a piece of paper. With the freezer door closed run the paper around the gasket. If you can do that, then you are not getting a good seal.
Repair: Clean the freezer door gasket with soap and water. While still wet, take a hair dryer and a spatula, going around the gasket, heat the gasket while pulling the gasket out to expand it.
Note: This only solves the problem if there is frost in the front area of your freezer.

2.) Freezer fan not working - In some cases, The freezer fan helps to prevent warm air from getting into the freezer.

3.) Food Storage - Make sure you do not overload the freezer, and that the food product is inside the bounds of the racks.

4.) Fresh Food Section Air Vent Wide Open - This is your probable cause: Heat goes to Cold like a magnet. When you open your fresh food section door and then close it you are forcing warm air up the vent that goes to the freezer. You probably have a broken air vent assembly.

Hi,

Your description is quite complete but is rather baffling. Pls bear with me while we process by elimination. A few basic/working ideas:

• most designs call for a single compressor to cool the freezer;
• the cold air in the freezer is drawn towards the fridge to cool that area;
• this is performed by a fan drawing air in the freezer through the evaporator;
• most would have a vent or air pathway to guide the freezer air;
• all would have thermostatic control to set the desired temperature;
• some designs have two thermostatic control , 1 for the freezer, 1 for the fridge.

As applied to your concern:

• compressor is working since freezer is OK;
• fan is working as you posted but is the air drawn from the freezer, better still, is the air forced/vented into the fridge?
• could you please check that the air is strongly blown into the fridge area;
• a little experiment, open the fridge door, look for and press on the door switch, the light should go out, after a lengthy seconds, the fan should trigger on, not only would it be audible, you would notice the frozen air swirling inside the fridge area. If you hold on long enough to the dorr switch, the compressor should kick in (if it is not already running) since the thermostat of the fridge area (if one is present) would sense that the fan is turning but the fridge area is not cooling.
  

Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards. Thank you for using FixYa.

when door closes recirculation fan activates, check the fan / condensor area for any foreign debris

This unit should have a defrost timer on near the compressor. You can turn the dial so it is the area set for defrost time. Usually times are set for 6 am, 12 pm, 6 pm 12 am for around 30 minutes. Adjust the timer dial to where the screw is. Or you can just unplug it.

Hi,

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1) Check the compressor working or not.. Air cooling type condenser fan may be not working properly.
2) Compressor working but not properly. Last side of condenser (Filter) Light Heat or not.
3) Inside Cooling area do not get cooling. may be gas leakage problem.
4) My opinion check Gas pressure Low and high side.

if door was left open for extended period of time it has probably iced up around the evaporator fan, try to defrost around fan area using a hair dryer

look for ice on back of freezer wall or a fan in freezer that is not going . frost on back will restrict air flow to fresh food area / and bad fan will do the same .. hope this helped . mm

Have you checked the evaporator fan(freezer fan), This problem is hard to detect because the fan spins but not fast enough to circulate the chilled air thru the freezer and refrigerator.

Assuming the temp inside the freezer is at around 0 or -2 degrees, it should dump ice every ~50 minutes or so. Again, depending on temp's, an Ice Bin should fill within 24 to 48 hours. If your freezer temp is running at around 10 degrees, everything will obviously still be frozen (below 32), but the ice maker will take longer to freeze the water than it would if it were at 0 degrees. Open both doors and place the palm of your hand on the partition between the freezer and Fresh Food compartments... (where the door gaskets seat when they're closed). The temp of the partition should be about 5 or 10 degrees warmer than body temp., If it's hotter than that, you found the problem. Either the condenser coils are dirty and need a good cleaning OR your condenser fan motor (the fan in back, near the floor in the compressor area) is failed or about to fail.