I just bought a house and the refrigerator that came with the deal is a Samsung. After about 3 weeks the refrigerator compartment started freezing the food inside it. It has digital display on the outside between the frigerator and freezer with button temperature controls.I tried unpluging the refrigerator over night and that did not help. I set the temperature of the refrigerator at 40 and the freezer at pulse 4 degrees. I have tried setting the tempuratures at many tempuratures but the refrigerator keeps freezing up. Also, the digital reading on the display is does not seem correct. Please any repair ideas would be appreciated!
You have a bad damper control, or a stuck (frozen or obstructed) damper.
OK, how do I go about fixing it?
Couldn’t tell from the drawings. The only visible board of any kind appears to be located in the rear, near the compressor, probably along the right side as you face the compartment. The damper itself will be between the freezer and refrigerator sections. If it’s a motorized damper, you’ll need further diagnostics to determine whether it’s the motor or the board.
Thank you. There is the digital display with the tempurature control button on the front of the refrigerator between the freezer and the refrigerator compartments. It is easy to remove with just 2 screws. Would it be worth replacing it? Thanks again.
That could be exactly where the damper control is. It’s a gamble at this point. If you can expose the damper motor and apply a test voltage to it, you may have a more informed choice. You’ll need to access the schematic to see whether it works on high voltage, or low.
this refrigerator has the twin cooling system. will it still have a damper?
No wonder the drawings were confusing…I had only seen this in Sub Zero units. Let’s start over: You say the refrigerator freezes. You’ll need to remove the panel in the rear, inside the refrigerator, to expose its evaporator. Is it covered with snow-like frost?
Thanks for sticking with me. This is so fustrating. I did open up the rear compartment behind the freezer. The freezer is on the bottom. I vacumed out any dust in the compartment and on the coils. There was very little dust. It is only around 2 years old but not under warranty anymore. To answer your question there was no frost around the evaporators. There is 2 of them. I hope I am seeing the right part. They are 2 black coil units. On one end was the condenser. then the fan. and then the 2 black evaporators. There was no frost in the compartment. Thanks. I have been struggleing with this for about 2 weeks.
If there are two separate systems (one for the freezer, and one for the refrigerator), there will be TWO compressors. If your unit only has one compressor, the evaporator for that unit is INSIDE the freezer, covered by a rear panel. If your unit has two compressors, the evaporator for the refrigerator is INSIDE the refrigerator, also covered by a rear panel. The evaporator is (usually) Aluminum. That’s the coil I want you to look at. In normal operation, there is a uniform frost coating over the entire coil. In a faulty defrost situation, you will generally see a very heavy snow-like frost build-up all over the coil, and sometimes enough to make the rear panel bulge inward (toward the food).
CAPITALIZATION is for emphasis only…I’m not shouting.
I am pretty sure that there was only one panel opening at the rear of the unit and that was the one I could open behind the freezer. When I go home from work tonight I will do a check of the rear above the freezer for another panel opening. I understand that there must be another compressor unit someplace.
Since I might not have a rear panel opening behind the refrigerator is it possible that I have to access it through the plastic panels inside the rear of the refrigerator?
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Please read posts #8 and #10 v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. How many times did I say,“…INDIDE…”?
Last night I removed the back panel inside the rear of the refrigerator. I located the evaporator. There was some icing of the coils. Just a small amount. I took a hair dryer and spent 5-10 minutes removing the ice. I made sure a the connections were snugly attached and sealed it back up.
This morning the tempurature in the refrigerator seems to be back to normal and the food was not frozen. The freezer tempruature seemed high. I have it set at minus 4 degrees. I set a thermometer in the freezer and it read minus 14 degrees. For now the refrigerator is not freezing up and I can live with the colder freezer. Anything I need to do to prevent the evaporator unit from freezing up in the future? I really appreciate magician59’s great advise. Thanks Magician.
I have a Samsung RS265LBBP with twin cooling and I am experiencing the exact same problem (freezer seems fine, fridge is freezing everything).
I will take a look at the fridge coils in a bit. If mine are too frosty, then would that be the defroster that is bad? I thought the defroster is supposed to kick in and melt the frost off the coils every so often.
I think the defroster and evaporator is one unit. If my hair dryer fix does not last I may end up buying the defroster and evaporator unit. Stomper, let me know if you fix your frig. Seems like we may have a similar problem. I would like to know who carries that defroster unit.
Sure thing, I have the service manual in case you need it. Let me know.
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Take a look at this. I think it may apply to my problem.
I found my evap assembly (with presumed defroster) at this site. Its only $46 for me. It might be worth it just to see if it fixes it. But it could also be the defroster fuse or defroster thermistor (also located on the evap).
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