Frigidaire refrigerator not cooling enough (Condenser coil is cold!)
Hi, I have an 8-year old Electrolux Frigidaire top freezer refrigerator, Model: NFTR18X4LWA.
Recently, both the freezer and the fridge are not cold enough. There is cold air blowing in both compartments, but freezer only gets to around 32F degree. Door sealing is fine.
I cleaned the dirt around condenser coil and compressor/fan at the back bottom, did not help.
Compressor lightly hot (ok to touch by hand), compressor fan is running, but condenser coil is cool: I feel that's the problem. The pipe connecting the compressor and condenser coil is hot close to the compressor side, but then quickly cools down before it gets to the 1st loop of condenser coil. The pipe (going into the freezer) besides the compressor is cold but not frozen.
Will I have to replace the compressor and/or condenser coil?
Can I assume the evaporator coil/fan etc in the freezer are good? We can feel cold air blowing (just not getting below 30F degree). Thanks!
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2 Comments
Thank you @brandon_k and @jayeff for the great suggestions!
We finally determined that the freezer and refrigerator temperatures won’t drop to low enough degrees even if we force the compressor to keep running for a couple of days continuously. The freezer will just stay ~32F degrees. Both the evaporator fan and the fan between the compressor and the condenser coil run fine. We believe the compressor/sealing system got some issue and it’s not worthwhile to repair the parts. So we just purchased a new 18 cube ft fridge.
Very good learnings through your guidance any way and we appreciate the great help!
by cooler
@coolerst Hey not a problem. I don't blame you. If you aren't trained to work on sealed refrigerant systems it is very easy to do something very wrong. Repairs can add up too, if you have to call someone out!
by brandon k