Freezer runs too cold

[Matt]

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>>> owner's manual:>> Fully defrost it, this is a very common problem, both with freezers

Interesting. I do keep the sensor of the thermometer near the top.

I don't know whether it is practical to check or fill the freon.

[Matt]

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Good question. The freezer is very quiet in a somewhat noisy room, so it isn't easy to hear. I guess I can tell by reaching behind and touching the compressor, checking for vibration. I will try to answer.

[larry moe 'n curly]

Could it be that this part (#13 in the parts list given in the link above) isn't sensing the temperature correctly or has its contacts welded shut?

I don't think replacing it requires getting into the sealed section, and its thin metal tube probably just wraps around a copper tube or sticks into a pipe full of grease.

[hrhofmann]

It isn't frost on the inside, it is frost where the temperature sensing element is located!!

[Matt]

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Yes.

I have checked it maybe 15 times since you asked, and it seems that it has been running every time. As I mentioned, it is a very quiet freezer in a somewhat noisy room, so it is not easy to hear. But when I reach behind and touch around the compressor, I can feel vibration and hot and cold.

Only by turning it to 'off', it seems.

[Matt]

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Okay, I defrosted it a couple days ago. The frost melted down to probably only about a half gallon.

But it did not help. It is running about -27 F now.

What did you mean in your other post about frost being near the temp sensor?

[jamesgangnc]

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Sounds like the thermostat is broken. It might be mechanical in which case you can take it out and examine it.

[Don Phillipson]

GE distributed manuals with most of its freezers, perhaps all. The manual for GE's current 19 cu.ft. suggests max. operating temperature is 23 Fahr. i.e. several degrees below

0 Celsius. When interior temp. rises to 23F an alarm light switches on. Your model is likely to be similar.