Last night, while we slept, the breaker for the refrigerator tripped. We didn't realize this until the morning, so the fridge was without power all night. We re-set the breaker, and all seems fine. Except...

The fridge won't stop running now.

It's plenty cold in both the freezer and the fresh-food sections. Around 38-40 in the fresh-food section. Everything is hard as a rock in the freezer. But, no matter how low I set the temp controls, the thing just keeps running. The only way to stop it is to turn the control to "off".

On thing I do notice...in the fresh-food compartment, at the top-center of the back wall, there's a molded-in "bulge" in the top panel that joins the back wall. There appears to be drops of water weeping from this area. Here's a photo of it. The drain pan under the unit is catching a lot of water this afternoon, too.

Could it be that, when the power was out, the coils froze over and now the fridge is working to defrost them, thus the dripping in the picture? FWIW, it's now been running continuously all afternoon, and no breaker has tripped.

One thing...I've not found my model number on any parts website, though that's the number on the plate inside the fresh-food compartment. It does seem to be almost identical to a Maytag NT19H6 in your parts lookup, though.

Thanks.

Ah. That's a COLD control. Your parts list says Control old.
Thanks.

The ice inside the freezer does not melt at once.

Gene.