Beko TFF673APW Upright Freezer High Temp Warning

[Ablaze]

Hi

We have the above freezer in the garage and found over the weekend that it has thrown the high temp warning on and defrosted itsself.

I did a bit of reading up and turned off the unit for about 15 mins.

Turned it back on and after 5 secs it started a loudish humming noise which lasted 17 secs and then clicked and fell silent except for the fan in the top of the freezer which is running continually.

I had removed the relay from the compressor and tested across all 3 pins for continuity and all variants game me a pozitive buzz with resistance readings on all variations.

I removed the capacitor leads from the switch after turning off the power for 10 mins and got infinity on the Ohms scale across the capacitor leads connectors

Is there anything else I can check ? boilers are my game but to me it sounds like the compressor aint kicking in and im not sure if its just because the capacitor is goosed

any further advice or if theres anything you could explain to me to check and ill have a go.

Its been a decent freezer but id rather repair than replace if its economically viable.

Many thanks

David

 

[big-all]

is it colder than 15 degrees
most f/f wont work in unheated rooms below about 12 degrees
but yours should work as the blurb says

from the blurb
"

Minimum ambient temperature required for satisfactory operation

Down to -15°C "