01-05-2025, 11:36 PM
A 10 year old Frigidaire. Twice now the fridge has spontaneously stopped running, interior lights don’t turn on and it throws a “”SY CE” error on the control pad. That supposedly means a communication problem between the control pad and the main board. CW is either the control pad, the main board or the wiring between them is faulty.
Here’s the gremlin part: power cycle the fridge and it stays off. Even the control pad shows no sign of life. But leave it alone and eventually the fridge will start running (cooling) while the control pad remains dead. Give it a while longer and the control pad comes back to life and the interior lights miraculously work normally.
The first time this happened was in early Oct. The second end of Dec.
I’ve visually inspected the circuits and there’s nothing obviously blown or burnt.
I’ve got a new board on hand now. Next time the gremlins reappear I’ll put it in.
Gotta love intermittent electrical faults.
-Mark
Here’s the gremlin part: power cycle the fridge and it stays off. Even the control pad shows no sign of life. But leave it alone and eventually the fridge will start running (cooling) while the control pad remains dead. Give it a while longer and the control pad comes back to life and the interior lights miraculously work normally.
The first time this happened was in early Oct. The second end of Dec.
I’ve visually inspected the circuits and there’s nothing obviously blown or burnt.
I’ve got a new board on hand now. Next time the gremlins reappear I’ll put it in.
Gotta love intermittent electrical faults.
-Mark
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