Good Evening,

My Kenmore Model # is 79572183211

I've been trying to solve this problem for the last week. I paid a local appliance company to come out and diagnose the issue.

I paid them $ 100.00.

The Tech didn't put the machine in Test Mode, (by pressing the little button once on the control board, located behind the metal panel), nor did he check the LED light on the panel, (which blinks for Compressor or sealed system issues).

He told me that he thinks my fan is bad and the sealed system has failed. He claims Kenmore and LG are notorious for Compressor/Sealed System failures and that there is a class action on the matter. That I would need a new refrigerator and his company could sell me a new refrige. Mine, he said, was no good anymore and when the new refrige is delivered they would only charge me $ 60 to haul my old one away.

Obviously, I went into total freak out/pissed off mode. The damn machine is only 7 years old.

I started reading everything I could. Took off the back panel, (mine is a french door, bottom freezer) located in the freezer section and noticed the Freezer fan wasn't working. Then read the Service Manual and noted there is a test mode. Went into test mode and the freezer fan started working.

Then I "attempted" to get readings. First resistance on the freezer sensor. The temp in the freezer is 10 degrees. In the Refrige it's 34. The Sensor resistance came in at 12 Ohms. Which seems to check out. But when I tried to measure VDC on the fan, (on harness # 7) I found it pretty tuff to back probe the harness as the wires and harness holes are ultra small.

I know from reading the manual that it might be the fan but it might also be the sensor or board.

I don't think it's the sensor as resistance is approx. correct based on the temp. reading in the freezer.

I'm trying to determine if it's the fan or the panel.

Can someone tell me where to go from here????

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.

Edited by user Sunday, March 21, 2021 5:05:07 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified