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I have a GE Side-by-Side.
A month ago my freezer stopped cooling and there was frost build up on the back panel of the freezer.
I unplugged the appliance and after all the ice melt I removed the back freezer panel. I removed the defrost heater. It looked burnt-out! The coil was a black.
I replaced the heater with a new one. Turned on the appliance and it all looked good.
A month later (today), we noticed frost build up on the back freezer panel. I removed the heater, the heater looks good. It's not blackened.
Is there a way to check if the heater is good? working? A way to manually turn on the heater to see if it runs?
Did it take a month for the coils in the back to freeze up.
I live in Houston, Tx. It's a very humid climate.
Please advise. All help would be greatly appreciated.
-JC
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You may have a bad/intermittant defrost thermostat, just replace it. To confirm it, you can go to the "sticky" GE (GS &HPS) model refrigerators and look for my comments on manual defrost at the motherboard in the back.
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Thank you Rich for the fast reply...ON A SUNDAY! Wow...
I read around and what I did was jump J9 to J11. The defrost heater started glowing hot.
Does that mean it's a thermistor problem? Or, board problem? Or, both the thermistor and board?
Thank you.
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I would replace both items, the evaporator thermister and the motherboard. Sometimes the defrost thermostat becomes intermittant, so I would replace that also.
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