You haven’t cleaned your refrigerator condenser coils — this may be due to three reasons: 1. you don’t have special tools, 2. You don’t know how, 3. You never knew you were supposed to. Well, you do need to do it, and I will make this task very easy for you, by showing you how to make easy cheap DIY tools, and showing you how to use them, so that you can easily clean this part of your refrigerator every 6 months.
For a refrigerator, cleaning condenser coils is not to make them look good. Dirty condenser coils cause poor heat convection and conduction and make the refrigerator run more often and/or for more time, thus it will shorten the lifespan of the refrigerator. It may also cause the compressor to overheat which in turn causes the compressor to stop working, and therefore the refrigeration fails to work.
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0:00 overview
0:23 DIY hose attachment
0:59 how to vacuum
1:20 DIY condenser coil brush
2:13 DIY 2in-1 coil brush alt design
2:59 why cleaning?
3:19 how the fridge works
Since dirty condenser coils will make the compressor work harder and run longer, it uses more energy. The average refrigerator may use 15% of a home’s total electricity. Dirty condenser coils can increase the amount of energy used dramatically because the refrigerator is running frequently, whether you are aware of it or not. To avoid excess energy usage and a costly replacement or repair, get in the habit of cleaning your refrigerator coils on a regular basis.
If you need a quick and safe way to troubleshoot the majority of the most frequent problems, you can measure resistance from the plug. It is quite safe and simple, but different refrigerator models may yield different results. As an example of measuring resistance from the plug, we provided data for 3 different refrigerators. If your refrigerator is different or does not show exactly the same values, you can still use this video experiments as references https://youtu.be/XSspTwABECo.
When your fridge stops working, it is an emergency because you have a flood in the freezer, and you have spoiling food. But finding the problem and ordering a new part or a new refrigerator could take a few days or longer. This video https://youtu.be/HCyDxWifj-8 is going to show you how to diagnose and deal with this emergency situation with temporary fixes. Rather than declaring the refrigerator kaput and letting your food spoil, you may manually jumpstart and control your refrigerator, and bypass those faulty components. We will show you what you can do for the most common problems such as a bad condenser fan motor, a bad control board, a bad thermostat, a bad start relay, a bad overload, or a bad evaporator fan motor.
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