My Refrigerator is Freezing instead of Only Cooling?

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My Refrigerator Is Freezing Instead Of Only Cooling?

If all of the items are frozen inside of your refrigerator, it is looking more like a freezer than a cooler, and it looks like your controls are positioned in a sort of middle ground, it is probably a matter of not having an airflow issue. If a thermostat is not working, it is causing the compressor to run harder than the compressor should, and this, in turn, causes food to freeze in the fridge, wasting food. The thermostat turns back on the compressor when it needs more refrigerant to keep your fridge cold.

The thermostat controls are responsible for turning on and off the fridge. It also controls air temperature inside your freezer and fridge. The thermostat controls the refrigeration cooling system — including the freezer — and adjusts the compressor, evaporator, and condenser. In the fridge, it is supposed to stop working automatically once it has reached its target temperature.

The thermostat is designed to automatically stop functioning once the refrigerator has achieved its set temperature. Without the thermostat, the refrigerator will continue cooling, and possibly stop cooling, with no checks. You might have deliberately turned the thermostat up on the fridge if you felt that the fridge was not cooling quite right.

When your fridge is not cool, but your freezer is, then it is likely that the issue is related to one of the mechanisms in your fridge that is not working the way it was designed. The problem could instead lie with air that is already reaching the freezer reaching the fridge. If you have cold air coming from the freezer, but the refrigerator is hot, then there is a chance the parts cooling both the fridge and the freezer are working correctly. Your fridge may even be losing cooling capacity, as it is literally losing the coolant liquid that creates cold.

Even if everything else in your refrigerator is working properly, the cool air inside the refrigerator can be running off if a door seal–also called a door gasket–is not working properly. Essentially, bad seals could be the reason why the refrigerator is running all the time, since the seals are allowing the refrigerator to operate like it is a wide-open fridge door. If the door is closed, but the seal is bad, there is enough compromise that the modern refrigerator does not stop, although it is losing cold air because of a bad seal. If air is blocked up high, or closed, the fridge has to operate for a lot longer, and freezer temperatures drop to lower levels.

If your air handle is stuck in its opened position, cold air that is constantly flowing in will cause the foods inside the fridge to get frozen. If your damper door is stuck in the open position, or the damper control assembly is faulty, then you need to replace that component in order to keep the fridge from staying too cold, which can freeze food in the lower compartment. If the air damper controls are malfunctioning, it could lead to incorrect temperature settings, which could result in vegetables freezing inside of your cooler drawers, or other icing potentially occurring within your coolers interior.

The damper is essentially an assembly required to regulate how much cold air is entering a cooler from a fridge-freezer. When a fridge is closed, the air from a fridge-freezer on one side may move down into the refrigerator on the other side, creating extremely cold temperatures and freezing vegetables and fruits stored in a crisper. The cold air cycles back and forth through air vents.
Freezer-freeze accumulation also blocks a vent, diminishing or blocking the cold air that gets to a coolers compartment. If anything blocks the cold air, this could cause uneven temperatures inside the refrigerated compartment.

It is standard to find that most fridges use a fan to push the cold air in the freezer to an evaporator, which is then forced to the refrigerated compartment to maintain cool temperatures. Usually, a fridges condenser fan and compressor, located near the floor in the back of most fridges, will turn on when your thermostat calls for extra cooling.

There are usually two control knobs on the fridge, one is used to manage cooling, which is the thermostat, while the other knob regulates the airflow between the compartments. In some models of the refrigerator, the thermosister is a piece that controls the temperature of the air flowing in and out of the refrigerator. The thermistor will send a reading to a temperature control board inside the refrigerator, which, in turn, directs a voltage to components in the refrigeration system. The sensor is supposed to transmit temperature readings from the fridge to the control board, but if it is faulty, the refrigerator is not likely to be cooling.

If a compressor is malfunctioning, it may generate too much air flowing to the coolers compartment, which causes the temperature to gradually drop. If you are not feeling the cooling air flowing in your refrigerator (but know that the evaporator fan is working), it is very likely the damper is jammed, or it is stuck in a closed position. If the fan is working in the fridge, airflow seems to be flowing through the fridge, and your settings are fine, but you are still getting really low temperatures, you are likely experiencing a chill control issue. If you can hear the compressor running, but the fridge is not cooling, then it is more than likely that you are experiencing problems with frozen coils, or with the fan of your refrigerator getting stuck or broken.

If you have the thermostat set too high, the refrigerator is going to naturally run cooler than it probably needs to. The thermostat dials inside the refrigerator, however, may get jacked around by cartons of milk or other items, causing your temperature setting to shift. Accidental temperature changes also cause the refrigerator to stall in its use of refrigerant, which will make food get hotter and spoiled.

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