Dear most knowledgeable one. I am almost as bad at computers as I am Frigidaire Side by sides.
Am trying to find out how to make this bad boy go into defrost? (something like clap my hands two times, spin aound in a counter-clockwise circle while hitting the light switch 15 times in […]

A big fat domo to Faz, an Apprentice Appliantologist in the world-famous, award-winning Samurai Appliance Repair Forum, for posting his refrigerator repair saga in the Kitchen Forum. It was such a compelling and well-written epic that I had to re-post it here:

Thank You for running this great website!
I am an electrical engineer and do […]

This actually happened on a Maytag model MSD2754FRW but can happen to any of the Maytag MSD side-by-side refrigerators with the in-door water dispenser (also called a “fountain”). The dispenser can turn itself on when you’re nowhere around and just keep spitting out water until the inlet valve burns itself out resulting in an […]

This topic at the repair forum has some excellent instructions from Sublime Masters of Appliantology on how to diagnose the infernal optics control boards on these over-engineered icemakers that use the optical ice level sensing… as if that’s appropriate technology to have in a silly little icemaker inside your freezer.

What are the manufacturers thinking when […]

The newer GE and Hotpoint refrigerators use a thermistor to sense temperature. The motherboard on the back of the refrigerator sends an electrical pulse to the sensor to measure its change in resistance and thus sense the change in temperature of the refrigerated space. So, checking the thermistor comes down to simply measuring […]

Intermittent problems are the hardest kind to troubleshoot. It takes a true technician, not a parts-changing monkey, to figure it out. Now you, too, can learn how to troubleshoot an intermittent no-cool problem in an Amana refrigerator from genuine über-techs. Lucky you!

If you’ve recently learned that your Sub-Zero refrigerator is leaking freon, then you need to study this topic in the Samurai Appliance Repair Forum very carefully to avoid being taken for a ride; pay particular attention to the pearls of wisdom dispensed by AccApp, a Sublime Master of Appliantology.

Lots of hacks and charlatans out there, […]

If you’re trying to figure out how to replace the ADC board in your Maytag or Jenn-Air refrigerator, then you’re working on fixing a defrosting problem and the evaporator coil in the freezer looked something like what’s shown here (click for larger view).
So, you’ve done your due diligence and checked the continuity of the defrost […]

Check out this photo set illustrating the procedure, courtesy of Jedi Appliance Guy. There’s a cool repair trick in that set, too. Can you find it?

If you’re seeing the back wall inside your freezer coated with fuzzy ice, then your refrigerator has a defrosting problem. Welcome to my world. First order of bidness here, Hoss, is to jump J9 to J11 on that muthahboard to see if the defrost heater will glow orange. If it does, then […]

This problem is on the top-and-bottom refrigerators (as opposed to the side-by-side). What’s going on here is that the condensate drain hole in the freezer gets plugged with ice. Once this happens, all the frost melted off the evaporator during subsequent defrost cycles can no longer drain and so spreads out on the […]

If the temperature control seems erratic in your Sub-Zero 600-series fridge, you probably need to replace both thermistors. For more info, read this topic at the kitchen appliance repair forum.

Here’s an update on this on-going lawsuit from our friends at BringGoodThingstoLife.org:
Most people across the country are unaware of the National Class Action lawsuit and Settlement Argreement pertaining to 304 models of GE defective refrigerators. Consumers are for the most part totally unaware that their GE refrigerator is included in a lawsuit. The […]

If you have one of those infernal GE refrigerators with the muthahboard in the back and you know how to use a multimeter to make simple electrical measurements, this tech sheet is a powerful weapon to have in your troubleshooting arsenal.
(Courtesy of Jabko, one of the Sublime Masters of Appliantology at the Samurai […]

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05 Refrig. Cabinet Thermistor read open or shorted for 10+ seconds, or repeatedly read erratic temp’s
06 Refrig. Evaporator Thermistor read open or shorted for 10+ seconds, or repeatedly read erratic temp’s
07 Freezer Cabinet Thermistor read open or shorted for 10+ seconds, or repeatedly read erratic temp’s
08 Freezer Evaporator Thermistor read open or shorted for […]