My Freezer Was Working But Now Won’t Power Up?

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My Freezer Was Working But Now Won’t Power Up?

If your freezer stops working, or is not freezing, it could have an issue with your thermostat, which controls the temperature. If your freezer is not working or is not freezing, there may be an issue with the control board. If your freezer is not freezing your food, this could mean that the compressor startup relay is bad.

A freezer cannot chill unless the compressor is working correctly. The compressor produces, and then circulates, refrigerant through your freezer, so if your compressor has gone bad, the freezer is not going to get cold.

The compressor essentially acts as the pump for the refrigerant within. The compressor compresses refrigerant, or cooling fluid, and pumps it around through evaporator coils and condenser coils. The evaporator takes the heat out of the cooler, cooling the contents, and turning cool refrigerant into hot steam. The fan of the evaporator, which circulates the cool air through the refrigerator, starts heating up throughout the freezer as soon as it stops working.

Once in diagnostic mode, you will have to place your fridge into the evaporator fan testing (which, again, should be in the manual). If you are used to working with this, shut off your appliance and open up the refrigerator to remove the plate that is located in the control panel.

Pull the fridge out of the wall slowly, and then turn the electricity off. Check the socket where your refrigerator is connected to (which is likely behind your fridge) to see if that is the breakers, or you reset a tripped breaker and still have no power. To check a power cord is not working, turn the fridge off and unplug it.

This may seem like a bit of an overly basic response, but a power cord that has worked loose from an outlet, or an amp flipped, can turn your whole refrigerator off. Odds are, a few components of your refrigerator are drawing too much power, causing a circuit breaker to trip to prevent overloading.

Some problems may not knock out power to the entire Frigidaire fridge, but may result in one specific part of your refrigerator, such as the compressor startup relay or the thermostat, stopping working.

You will need to open the refrigerator to access that part, but once you do, you may need to change out the compressor start relay, but just remove the old one and insert a new one. This part is also known as a controller, and it works by feeding the power to the compressors startup coils so that your fridge starts. The starter relay is a crucial component inside of your freezer, because the starter relay helps to keep your compressor running. To check for a problem starting relay, your repair professional will disconnect your freezer from the electrical grid and pull out the starter relay from your compressor.

If he or she has installed a new starter relay assembly, power back the freezer and test whether it is freezing now. Once the condenser coil is cleaned and/or defrosted, turn your freezer back on and check if it now properly freezes.

Plug in the fridge and ensure that the condenser fan is running while the compressor is running. If the fan is running but the compressor does not turn on, or you hear clicking sounds coming from the unit, check your overheating relays for signs of overheating or arcing.

If the fridge does not start, and there is no fan running, you might have a faulty control. If you can hear the compressor motor running, but your refrigerator is not cooling at all, then there could be an issue with your evaporator or condenser coils. If you hear the compressor running, but your refrigerator is not cooling, then it is more likely that there is either a frost-clogged evaporator coil, or the evaporator fan is jammed or broken.

If you set the fridges thermostat for colder air, the fridges compressor will start up, forcing less air to flow through the cooling fan. The cold air cycles back and forth through air vents. Every second that the doors are opened increases temperatures inside the refrigerator and freezer.

When the thermostat perceives the temperature within the refrigerator is getting slightly too hot, it sends a signal to the compressor telling it to turn on. When you turn the unit on, the thermostat sends a signal to the starter capacitor, which activates the compressor and starts the cooling cycle.

Normally, when your thermostat calls for additional cooling, your fridges condenser fan and compressor, located near the floor in the back of most fridges, turn on. The purpose of a temperature-controlled thermostat is to monitor your freezers temperature, then tell the control board how much electrical power to send to the fan and the condenser compressor to allow the freezer to chill.

Test the compressor by disconnecting the refrigerator for approximately 2 hours, and reconnecting it. You connect an electronics device into one of the compressors, the power flows from an outlet to the device, and the device works.

A faulty thermostat does not send power to the refrigeration system, and the refrigerator does not get cold. The sealed system might leak, with insufficient refrigerant available to cool the appliance to its desired temperature. If the refrigerator is working, a problem could be with the defrost timer, defrost heater, or defrost thermostat.

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