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Hi,
I just bought a new house and with it came a GE profile refrigerator I thought worked well. About two weeks ago I noticed the fridge was getting warm, but not the freezer. It is a freezer-underneath model, and I had also noticed condensation forming on the roof of the refrigerator and a thin sheet of ice forming/melting on the bottom of the fridge. Not knowing what I was doing, I emptied everything into a cooler and let the whole thing defrost. After cleaning up a whole bunch of water I plugged it back in and everything worked great...for about 4 days. I put thermometers in it when I plugged it back in so I could see what was happening. The fridge part stayed at about 37ish and the freezer part stayed at about 3ish. Over a few days the fridge crept up to about 62 and the freezer slowly worked its way down to -14. There is no longer any cold air blowing into the fridge and I don't see any ice anywhere (except a little on the bottom of the fridge). I never heard the compressor kick off, so I put a timer on the plug for my own redneck defrost cycle.
With a new house and a baby on the way any day now I need to crack this thing so I don't have to buy a new unit. Any advice/help would be great.
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Anybody have any advice? I really need to figure this out and I don't want to drop the 200$ minimum Sears wants for a service call. I'm thinking I will start playing with the defrost circuit, but as a first timer Im just kinda taking stuff apart....
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Reach in the bottom of the control panel and turn the defrost control with a screwdriver till the compressor turns off, unit should now defrost, if not, you probably have a bad defrost thermostat clipped to the evaporator coil AP2071271. These defrost heaters are rather reliable, but you can check this also with a meter.
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OK, so I turned the timer until the compressor turned off. I melted some of the ice with a hair dryer until I could see the heater. The heater turned red, so I'm assuming that part works. I then hit the thermostat with the warm air from the hair dryer and the heater turned off. So I'm assuming the thermostat works as well. Do you think I need a new timer, or did the frost just build up and overwhelm the timer? Can I increase the defrost cycle?
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Just order a new defrost timer available on this site.
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Thanks for the help. Pulling everything apart I noticed a pretty bad tear in the bottom of the magnetic seal. I'm thinking that is what let all the condensation build up, leading to all the extra ice. If not, I will definately order the new timer. Thanks again.
Matt
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