🥶 🧊 Refrigerator Won't Cool or Freeze After Power Loss? - Possible Fix!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- I have a GE refrigerator / freezer that stopped cooling and freezing after a power loss. We were gone on vacation around Christmas, and came back to a breaker that had tripped due to a thunderstorm. I reset the breaker, and the refrigerator lamp came back on, but the compressor would never run.
I thought for sure it was a compressor issue. However, I cold not locate any type of reset switch. This particular model is a GE GTS18XC. I purchased it in 2006. Due to the age, I assumed the worst and decided not to have it repaired.
A few weeks later, I decided to give it one more shot. It had been unplugged for a long time. I plugged it back in, tried turning the thermostat to zero, still no luck.
In one last ditch effort, I started messing around with the temperature control inside the fridge. I noticed something that appeared to be a switch. I pushed up on it, heard a slight click, and viola! The compressor kicked on and it is once again cooling.
I honestly am not sure if what I pressed was in fact a switch, but whatever it was, everything is working fine now.
Again, my model is a GE GTS18XC and this happened after a power outage. Let me know in the comments if this video helps how. How did you get your refrigerator to cool again? What model do you have?
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I pushed that button a few times and nothing happened. Then I accidentally flicked it with my fingernail and the compressor started!!!! Thank you so much!! I was dreading the thought of calling my landlord!!
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Hell yeah! Thank you for this video! We had just loaded up the freezer with groceries when the compressor stopped, but light was still on. Unplugging and turning thermo down and then reversing after a few minutes did nothing, so then tried this. Heard the click and everything came back on! Amazing. Thank you.
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This worked! Our GE refrigerator is working again! Thank You! I just had to cut the temp switch off/on a couple of times and our fridge started running and cooling again! My husband was ecstatic and proud of me! This was also after a power outage
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Thank you so much! 2024, power outage for over 24 hours...Whirlpool fridge, vintage 1994ish...found the exact same switch in a similar place to the one in the video...pressed it with a finger...instantly kicked on. Now cooling like a champ! Thank you thank you thank you!
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I just fixed my fridge using the same method. Thanks for the video. You likely saved me 400 dollars.
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Wow! This fixed my garage fridge too. Just barely touched that same “switch” and bingo! My fridge is an ancient Hot Point brand. I assumed it bit the dust but it’s back from the dead now haha. Thank you!!
Pretty crazy that this worked for me, and so many others!
Thank you. We used a screwdriver in the hole and turned the button and it reset immediately. We left ours down for a week after a power outage. Our refrigerator is a Kenmore.
Dude! This did it. Took me hours of trouble shooting and all it needed was a good whack under where that hole is. Thanks!!
THANK YOU!!! It worked on my Kenmore. I'm so happy. I was so upset about having to pay for repairs or buying a new fridge. You just saved me hundreds.
You’re the man definitely fixed my fridge problem.
Awesome! No idea what that is on those fridges, but I'm glad it worked for you too!
Have a similar model in my apartment with the exact issue. Didnt expect it work but worked perfectly. Well done sir! 👏
Came across your video after my fridge went out due to a possible outage while we were away for Thanksgiving! I didn't find the same switch (I have a Whirlpool side by side), but I did turn the fridge temp to off and when it clicked on, it started running! Going to give it a day to see if it cools properly, fingers crossed! Thank you for your video! Saved some $$$ with a simple fix!
Thanks. Your solution didn’t work but it led me to a similar one. That switch isn’t a button, it’s a dial without a knob, if whacking it or pushing it doesn’t work, wedge a screw driver into the hole and turn it. That worked for me.
Oh, mine also happened after a 48 hour power outage.
@theopinionmachine606 Thank you! That worked for me!
Do I need to give time for it to start working or it instantly starts??
@@petermutale7787 I heard an immediate engagement. Aka, there was a click, then the compressor motor started. Obviously it takes some time to cool down & get to the the right temperature inside, but you should notice something happen.
Like turning on a switch.
This one was one lucky fix. Good job man 👍
Thanks for the helpful video. I have a GE side-by-side refrigerator and freezer. model number is “GSH25JSTC SS”. Cooling stopped after a recent power outage. Lights come on for refrigerator not the freezer and cooling has completely stopped. I am still trying to find the reset switch..don’t see one for this model GSH25JSTC SS
Any luck ? I have the same
@@NewYorkRebel187 any luck?
Got me a frigidaire didnt have a button but it did have something like it i had to turn it and it turned on agine 👌🏼👌🏼 thanks for the help
I have a frididaire as well.Can I ask where and what your switch/button was located? Thanks in advance
According to one of the things I saw, that part, the defrost timer, might have just gotten stuck, or might be starting to go bad. You can replace the part.
Good video, but it sure sounds like you really miss that ice cream.😅
You saved me thank you 🙏 for this beautiful
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Thank you so much man this video just saved my weekend
Our power went out in California 2xs in 3 days due to the Tesla Supercharger station at the gas station 5 blocks away. Just noticed everything is spoiled 😭 and fridge is cold- disconnected the power and plugged it back in and it the fridge started back up again
We had a power outage and the power surge must have hurt the defrost thermostat. We hired a repairman to figure out the issue, and once the defrost thermostat was changed, everything started working normally again.
This helped me so so so much
Thank you!!!!
Sounds like the defrost timer. My fridge is not working either after a power outage. Tried turning the defrost timer with a screwdriver and still not working. I'm thinking I have to replace the timer or the refrigerator. Mine is a 20 yr old GE bottom freezer and looks new.
Thanks a lot buddy. Saved me !
Thanx!
Thank you!!😊
I did this and still not working. Any suggestions?
I have a ge refrigerator, power went out, light is coming on, but it’s not cooling. Can’t find a switch :(
same, did you ever end up finding it?
Same!!! Any solutions?@@SonOfAGun1814
2006 seems like not that long ago.
I have the problem of power surge shutting down my older side by side GE w/icemaker. I cannot find the reset button -model is GSS23QSTA SS. Can you help?
I have the GE side by side refrigerator with LED panel and ice/water dispenser. If the power goes out, and it does a fair amount of the time, the unit turns off and everything defrosts and randomly starts itself up again. I cannot find the mystery switch and all the front LED lights go dark while the compressor and other items are inoperable. Anybody here know the secret with this type of set up?
power just went out for an hour and same thing happened to me.... lights come on but no cooling..... hoping to find a video similar to this that has my same model, my temp control is on the outside door of the freezer.... it's a ge model from 2008
Same here. Did you fix it ? How please?
@@obinwafrancis28 wait 5 hours and see if it magically just comes back on like mine did i have no explanation....... i tried turning all the breakers off, pulling it out and unplugging and plugging back in, etc. etc. i think maybe the defroster just had to cycle....... literally while i was already in bed 5 hours later i heard it just power back on really loud since it had to cool way back down and it's been fine since?????