Hello,
I’m writing about an issue we are having with our Kenmore upright freezer model 253.9280213 purchased in 10/2000. We have noticed for some timethat while meat and even a bag of ice will stay frozen that ice cream wasalways too soft. We were perplexed but suspected some sort of temperaturecontrol problem. Also, occasionally water leaks out from underneath thefreezer. Not a log of water but enough to wet the floor nearby. I recentlybuilt a temperature data logger which stores temperature sensor data onto a micro-SDcard every minute. I put the logger into freezer for 24 hours. For comparison sake I also took a 24 hour recording of our kitchen side-by-size freezer/refrigerator that seems to work fine. Attached is apicture showing the plot of the data. The suspect freezer shows temperature spikes at 12 hour intervals which I believe is due to the auto-defrost feature. Italso shows that the freezer never really gets as cold as the kitchen freezer and the auto-defrost keeps interrupting it’s attempt to get there. The temperature climbs 12 degrees during the defrost cycle. The working freezer seems to cool down to the control band and then bounce within that band, maintaining a target temperature, but the suspect freezer doesn’t have this behavior. Do you think the problem is with having low Freon, failure of the temperature control device or a failing compressor? Why would it leak water?
Thanks
I’m writing about an issue we are having with our Kenmore upright freezer model 253.9280213 purchased in 10/2000. We have noticed for some timethat while meat and even a bag of ice will stay frozen that ice cream wasalways too soft. We were perplexed but suspected some sort of temperaturecontrol problem. Also, occasionally water leaks out from underneath thefreezer. Not a log of water but enough to wet the floor nearby. I recentlybuilt a temperature data logger which stores temperature sensor data onto a micro-SDcard every minute. I put the logger into freezer for 24 hours. For comparison sake I also took a 24 hour recording of our kitchen side-by-size freezer/refrigerator that seems to work fine. Attached is apicture showing the plot of the data. The suspect freezer shows temperature spikes at 12 hour intervals which I believe is due to the auto-defrost feature. Italso shows that the freezer never really gets as cold as the kitchen freezer and the auto-defrost keeps interrupting it’s attempt to get there. The temperature climbs 12 degrees during the defrost cycle. The working freezer seems to cool down to the control band and then bounce within that band, maintaining a target temperature, but the suspect freezer doesn’t have this behavior. Do you think the problem is with having low Freon, failure of the temperature control device or a failing compressor? Why would it leak water?
Thanks