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Hello, and thank you in advance for your help.
OK, a few weeks ago my freezer started warming-up and the icemaker quit working.
I found This website, Did the tests. My evaporator fan tested out bad, and the voltage in it's harness was 13+ vdc from red to white, and 13+vdc from white to yellow, BUT only when the freezer door was closed. No voltage white to yellow with door open. The resistance readings were nowhere close on the fan motor. It seemed there was no cold air moving in the freezer.
I ordered and installled a new evaporator fan motor from you guys. With the fridge and freezer empty, I installed it. After 24 hours, the freezer set at -3 got down to 0 deg., the fridge to 35 with a set digital temp of 37.
Over the past two days, the freezer has fluctuated between -1 to 7 degrees above, the icemaker has refused to work, the fridge side has maintained 35-37 degrees. The evaporator fan seems to work, but it always sounds slow, not a LOT of air moving like my other fridge. It also slows down/speeds up for seeming no reason.
I blew-out/cleaned the compressor coils, the compressor fan is working.
I took the cover off the evaporator coils today, the bottom half was frosted with ice, the top half, not.
Any help you can give me before I have to pay the big bucks for an official repair guy who may or may NOT know what's wrong?
Thanks, Steve W.
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I would replace the motherboard in the back, AP3957581, standard procedure when the evaporator fan motor goes bad.
Re- check the evaporator coils, should have frost over all the coils.
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I would replace the motherboard in the back,
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I got your msg. You can confirm a motherboard acting up by measuring the evaporator motor voltages at the motherboard J2 connector, refer to the evaporator motor test in the sticky above GE refrigerator (GSS*....) for wire colors and our schematic in the encoder box. Unfortunately there is no repair procedure on the motherboard for this type problem.
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