Frequently Asked Questions About Domestic Refrigerator Repair:
Freezer door left open overnight now has problem
I have a 5 year old freezertop White-Westinghouse refrigerator that has developed a problem. The freezer door was left open about 1 inch for a whole night. The compressor was really complaining the next day. After closing the freezer door, the compressor finally stopped and everything seemed ok. But once the compressor came on again, it would not shut off.
I turned the thermostat all the way up and now the compressor is cycling on and off. It seems now that it is trying to keep the bottom half of the refrigerator at 30 degrees. So even though the thermostat is set on its highest setting, I can't set the lower half to anything higher than 30 degrees. So now the compressor is on for 50 minutes and off 10 minutes. It wasn't like this before this happen. The compressor would run maybe 10 minutes and stay off for a good 30-40 minutes unless someone opened the refrigerator door. Do you have any suggestions as to what's wrong?
You seem to have something mixed up. The higher you set your controls the colder the refrigerator will become (and the longer it will run). This is why the temperature in the refrigerator section is now too cold and you have such long run times.
Set your controls back to where you had them before. Don’t concern yourself with run times as much as what the temperatures are inside. The run time duration of various cycles on frost free refrigerators is hard, if not impossible, to calculate because of so many variables such as: the length of the automatic defrost cycle, changing ambient temperature and humidity, how often the door is opened, the relative condition of your compressor, the daily variation of atmospheric pressures, etc.
Your freezer section should be 0 to 10 F and the refrigerator section as close as you can get it to freezing without freezing. Hope this helps and let me know if your problems continue. Thanks.
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