Just curious, how cold is the freezer? The refer coil is the tail end of the freezer coil and the sensor is at the end of the refer coil. If the end of the refer coil doesn't get cool enough to cycle off the heat source, the system will,stay on. I'd monitor the system to see if it's staying on and diagnose from there. FWIW, The refer coil is auto defrost, meaning it auto defrosts on the off cycle.
The old fridges of that type nearly always meant, low on refrigerant, when they acted like that, and it nearly always meant an ice-picked freezer coil but you can't do that on these fridges. If the freezer is plenty cold and the fridge isn't, AND the system is staying on... that's likely bad news for the sealed system cuz cooling isn't getting all the way to the very end of the evap.
"Critical Charge" is a term in the refrigeration world and this type of system is as critical as they get! Craig
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