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I have a Kenmore French Door with Bottom freezer. The freezer is working fine (still at -6°), but the fridge was at 54°. I removed the kick plate to check it ( some dust, cleaned it). Noticed temp dropped to 52° now. Next step?
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This one must be new or built very well as there is little info on repairing this particular model.
So I will give you the nine most common things that will cause this:
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Hi,
Check if you can hear the evaporator fan running when the compressor is running. The evaporator fan supplies the cold air to both the freezer and the fridge to cool both compartments. Since the evaporator unit is in the freezer compartment it will stay cold just because the unit is located there. Like a big ice block.
Place your ear next to the fridge and listen for the fan. It will stop running when a door (either door) is opened and start again when the door is shut
The evaporator fan is in the freezer compartment behind a panel. Do not confuse this fan with the condenser fan which is outside the compartments near the compressor and is used to cool the condenser and the compressor and runs whether the doors are open or not.
If the evaporator fan does stop and start the problem may be a faulty air damper not allowing cold air into the refrigerator section
If you can’t hear the fan at all it may be that it is either faulty, iced up or perhaps a door switch may be faulty.
To check the last possibility, with a door open check if the lights go out in the compartment when you manually operate the door switch. The door switch not only tells the control board to turn on the light, it is also used to let the control board know that a door is open and to turn off the evaporator fan in the freezer section as you don’t want to blow the cold air out of the fridge or freezer.
The following should be done with the power totally disconnected from the refrigerator
If the evaporator fan is iced up there could be a problem with the fan itself, the defrost heater, a blocked drain tube, the defrost thermostat or the control board.
Defrost the ice from the evaporator and the fan and then check if the drain in the freezer compartment under the evaporator unit is not blocked by pouring a little bit of water down the drain and checking if it gets to the evaporator pan under the fridge.
If it is OK then use an Ohmmeter to check if the defrost heater, which is under the evaporator unit is OK
If the defrost heater is OK, check if the defrost thermostat is OK.
If all the above test OK plug the power back into the fridge and watch its’ operation.
Listen that the evaporator fan operates. If not it may be faulty.
The fridge should run to drive the temps back down and it should stop at least once every 6-10 hours to perform an auto defrost cycle. This is where the compressor is stopped and the temp in the freezer is allowed to rise to 32 deg F which allows the ice build up on the evaporator unit to melt and drain away to the evap pan under the fridge.
If the auto defrost cycle doesn’t kick in then the problem is the control board
The auto defrost cycle lasts about 20-30 minutes and is sped up by the defrost heater being turned on, as you don’t want the food to even start to thaw.
When the defrost thermostat operates the compressor and evaporator fan are started again to drive the temps back down.
Here’s a link which shows where all the parts are located in your refrigerator which may help. There are other suppliers that may suit you better. Just search for 25370313211 parts
Sorry for the long answer , just trying to cover all possibilities
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253.7031*3211
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Manufacture date is 10-12
Additional notes: gained access to back cover. Removed it and blew out all the dust that was on the coils. Refridgerator is located in an enclosed area. Left, right and back are all enclosed pretty tight to the fridge. Only about 2" clearance between top of fridge and cabinet.
Temp was at 53° approximately 10 minutes ago, no change.
When I had access to the back the fan was running and compressor tank warm.
I may be repeating myself, but freezer is holding strong at -6.
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I am back once again. Fridge at 52°, Freezer still holding strong. Again had ice form on back of fridge. Neighbor thinks since our AC/Heater doesnt run too often that humidity in the house adding to issues. It appears that this may be a repeat issue since there is rust where the ice forms. Any new thoughts would help.
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@ol_salt01 ,
Did you do all the checks as listed in my answer below, you haven't said?
The evaporator fan is "inside" the freezer compartment behind a panel. This fan supplies the cold air from the freezer compartment to the refrigerator compartment to cool it to the set temp.
From a previous comment you made it appears that you only checked the condenser fan which is "outside" the fridge compartments
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