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Unit gradually stopped cooling/freezing. Motor runs, fan runs. No freon odor. How can I tell if the compressor has died? Recharging freon a possibility? Those repairs are beyond my skill level. Unit is 18 years old. Time to give it up?
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Pull the back freezer panel and check for partial frost pattern. If so, and the failure took like only a week or two, you have a bad refrigerant leak probably in the evaporator. Probably not worth fixing, too costly.
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Thanks. No evidence of a partial frost pattern on the cooling blades. When I put it back together, the coldest temp I could get in the freezer was about 40 degrees.
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If the compressor is running hot, it sucked in non-compressables, if running cool, either a bad compressor or refrigerant leak. Gauges and amprobe would verify.
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