Refrigerator won't acknowledge AC
I thought I had an issue at one point with my electric element in my fridge so I took it out to test it. I had a neighbor test it with a meter and he said it seemed fine so I hooked up a plug-in end t...
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Chris Bryant wrote:
Unplug it and just change the fuse- they have a tendency to heat up (because of corrosion) and the element will come unsoldered from an end cap, so they look good but are not. There should be two fuses though- the 3 amp is for the 12 volt power, and a 5 amp at the bottom of the board is for the 120 volt.
This model is also very vulnerable to high voltage- there is a large resistor on the bottom of the board- near the fuse, IIRC. This resistor will burn up with a voltage of anything over ~135 volts.
OK, I didn't know what it was but this resistor that you are talking about at the very bottom of the board looks blackened on one end. Would this indicate that it is burnt up? If so, can the resistor be replaced or would I need to replace the entire board?
