Comment on hot-wired a fridge mystery component. Nothing happened. What is it?
diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoThe mystery component is hiding behind the plate. If I follow the two white wires from the thermostat, they go behind the plate and make a loop that attaches to the backside of the plate.
I mean, you could also say the plate is a mystery to me as well. I’m quite baffled by this fridge because it’s nothing like the videos I’ve seen on fridges. The plate must be cooling the fridge compartment because there is no vent coming from the freezer.
bitfucker@programming.dev 4 days ago
Yeah, that’s a broken heater. A broken heater sign is usually high resistance or good ol disconnect. It being in parallel further reinforces that. This is a common schematic for domestic refrigerators.
Domestic refrigerator schematic
diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
For the moment I just disconnected the heating element and wired in a t-stat from a mini fridge. The heatin element could very well have been broken as long as I owned the fridge (it was given to me as a quite old 2nd hand fridge).
I guess I will keep my eye out for similar normal sized fridges that are trashed. Maybe I can harvest a heating element and combined t-stat like mine to recover the auto-defrosting function.