This goes out the appliance repair guru/s (you know who you are)
I've got an old dinosaur of a freezer and it stopped working last night. I moved all the food to other places so I have time to do whatever needs to be done.
When I was cleaning out the freezer last night, the light came on but that's it; compressor and fan were not working. I noticed that the compressor fan blade was seized against its shroud in one spot; I could force it to do a revolution but then it would stop again. I assumed this was the cause of the failure.
This morning the freezer was running again, plenty cold inside, but the fan was still seized. Now I can feel the fan motor is very hot and smells, and there's a 60Hz hum in it that wasn't there last night.
So I assume that at a minimum, this fan needs replacing, but I have 2 questions:
1. would this fan failing cause undue stress to other components (namely compressor) that would cause them to also fail in short order after having replaced the fan?
2. does the fan have to be a direct replacement? I have a 6" 120V muffin fan I could throw in there, but I'm suspecting that the air flow might be a calculated value and too little flow causes failure A and too little causes failure B.
I've got an old dinosaur of a freezer and it stopped working last night. I moved all the food to other places so I have time to do whatever needs to be done.
When I was cleaning out the freezer last night, the light came on but that's it; compressor and fan were not working. I noticed that the compressor fan blade was seized against its shroud in one spot; I could force it to do a revolution but then it would stop again. I assumed this was the cause of the failure.
This morning the freezer was running again, plenty cold inside, but the fan was still seized. Now I can feel the fan motor is very hot and smells, and there's a 60Hz hum in it that wasn't there last night.
So I assume that at a minimum, this fan needs replacing, but I have 2 questions:
1. would this fan failing cause undue stress to other components (namely compressor) that would cause them to also fail in short order after having replaced the fan?
2. does the fan have to be a direct replacement? I have a 6" 120V muffin fan I could throw in there, but I'm suspecting that the air flow might be a calculated value and too little flow causes failure A and too little causes failure B.