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My refrigerator never turns off. I've set the thermostat at 5 and 0 and it always stays on. It will turn off if I turn it under the 0. I tried cleaning the coils at the bottom. I had to tilt the refrigerator 45 degrees to get under there and vacuumed all the dust off. I also just unplugged it and let it defrost for 12 hours. When I turned it back on, I noticed I wasn't feeling any wind from the freezer fan. It does seem to be cooling though. Help?
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make sure the fan in freezer is running. if not it cannot circulate air properly and will never satisfy the cold control.
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 I used a multimeter (put it on RX10), and I think that the meter is supposed to move to zero, but it didn't budge at all. Does this mean that the evaporator fan motor is dead? Did I insert the multimeter wires correctly?
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yes your meter leads are right. the motor windings may not read on 10k scale. the ohms may be higher than 10,000. is this a top freezer? if it is, it is most likely the motor
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Originally Posted by: scott5495  yes your meter leads are right. the motor windings may not read on 10k scale. the ohms may be higher than 10,000. is this a top freezer? if it is, it is most likely the motor This fan/motor was taken from the freezer on top. When I put the multimeter on RX1K (from RX10), it doesn't move either. But, isn't the meter supposed to show zero either way? (The meter is all the way to the left, and zero is on the right.) Thanks.
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the rx1 scale is a lower scale than rx10 scale. if you have a higher scale, such as rx20 or more, try that. ge top freezer refs with motors like yours had a lot of problems with the freezer fan motor. actual name is, evaporator fan motor. since you have a meter, put the meter on 120 volts and put the leads into the wires that you unplugged the motor from. if you have voltage, then the motor is bad. some motors were d.c. voltage, so check for up to 24 volts d.c. if no power motor is good. bet it's the motor
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Originally Posted by: scott5495 the rx1 scale is a lower scale than rx10 scale. if you have a higher scale, such as rx20 or more, try that. ge top freezer refs with motors like yours had a lot of problems with the freezer fan motor. actual name is, evaporator fan motor. since you have a meter, put the meter on 120 volts and put the leads into the wires that you unplugged the motor from. if you have voltage, then the motor is bad. some motors were d.c. voltage, so check for up to 24 volts d.c. if no power motor is good. bet it's the motor It's RX1K, so isn't that RX1000, meaning it's higher? Either way, does a good motor show zero? My multimeter only has 10/50/250/500 when it comes to the AC or DC. So should I put it on 250 DC? And, I'm supposed to get 24 volts DC? Is there a way to tell whether to use AC or DC? Thanks again.
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o.k. i looked up your model. you should have 120 volts a.c.
for future reference. on the ohms scale the k stands for thousand. rxk1.
rxk10 equals 10,000 ohms, k20 20,000 and so on. hope this helps.
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just took a look at your picture. being an analog meter, i'm not sure whether it says kohms or not. but the higher the number the higher the ohms. motor probably won't read 0 ohms, but should read through the motor winding on some scale if it is good. good luck
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Did you short the meter leads together before starting the test?
It should then go to 0 ohms.
Just to be sure that the meter is OK.
When checking voltage the scale used should always be higher than the expected voltage so use the 250 volt AC scale. |
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