I was at a friend's house earlier tonight and his fridge was squealling and screaching like a 'coon in a trap. It went on for abpit 30, 90, or 10 seconds and then there would be a quet time for 2 to 10 seconds, and it would start up again.
Some times the pictch changed, like it was a mama 'coon.
Does this sound like a fan or the compressor?
IF it's a fan, which isr better, that is, not as bad , to run the fridge while it makes the noise, or to disconnect what I think I show below is the bad evaporator fan behind the freezer compartment and run it without the fan at all. Will it cool the freezer or fridge without the fan?
What are the odds that running the fridge while it makes this noise will set the whole thing on fire? Or do more damage than just the bad fan? It turns out he had this noise the previous night too, turned the thing off, and forgot there was a problem. Now the chicken in the freezer is soft, the fridge is 48F, and he wants to run the whole thing o get back to the temp it was. Must he turn it off now? Before he goes to sleep? After he puts new batteries in the smoke detector?
He tells me the chicken has gotten harder.
And can I just buy him another evaporator fan before I go over there again, once I get the model number, or do I have to checkfirst iif the fan is really the problem?
TIA