Amana Refrigerator Repair
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Appliance:
Amana Refrigerator
Problem:
Water
dispenser (located
on the door) worked intermittently for a while, then stopped working
altogether. After that, ice dispenser and ice maker stopped working also. No water in the trays.
Solution:
If the water
dispenser is broken
and the ice
maker working, the water
tank inside
the Amana refrigerator section could be freezing up. Temperature should be
checked to make sure that it is not set too low.
If both the water dispenser and the ice maker have failed, either the water inlet valve could be the problem, or the water supply line to the Amana refrigerator itself might be restricted
The water supply valve coming from your house may be restricted by water sediment. It is generally recommend replacing your water supply valve with a drill style saddle valve. You can get a much better water flow to the water inlet valve this way and your Amana refrigerator repair will be a success.
Appliance:
Amana Refrigerator, Model ATB1915HRQ
Problem:
Intermittent cooling problems and compressor making buzzing
noise.
Solution:
Make sure that the
condenser is clean. An intermittent problem is usually caused by the relay overload (part #12002794) on the compressor
that's causing it to intermittently start. Especially if it runs a long time
and the compressor gets hot, it takes a little more current draw sometimes to
get it started. If the compressor trying to start, that tells you that the
other controls are generally okay; the thermostat (part #61005790) is working properly
and it's calling for refrigeration.
These components are mounted to the outer shell of the compressor; they normally just plug on. There are three pins and a few wires. It's something that the average do-it-yourselfer, if they take their time and mark the wiring, etc., can accomplish.
Appliance:
Amana Bottom Mount Refrigerator, Model
BX21TW
Problem:
Freezer is 0 degrees but not getting cold enough in the refrigerator
section
Solution:
Normally
if you open the door and depress the switches for the light and the fan you can
hear the freezer fan (part #10513803) run. If you don't,
then you either have a bad door switch (part #C3680310) or a fan motor, but
most often you're not going to get zero degrees in the freezer if the fan is
stalling or having problems. Usually when you have one section cooling the way
it's supposed to and the other one not, is either a defrost system failure or
the air diffuser in the refrigerator section that opens and closes to allow the
cold air to be pushed in there is stuck closed.
Normally, on your unit, if you open up the refrigerator door you should see a small white plastic box, with a little vent on it, and the air damper (part #R0161050) is the component behind that. It's got a little thermostat on it, a sensing bulb, and all it does is open up a little gate. If you see that it is stuck closed, until you can order a new one, you can take a small piece of cardboard or the like, and just wedge it in there until it's half-open. That will get you by until you can order a new control.
You can close the freezer door and then depress the switches in your refrigerator section, one to make sure that the lights are going on and off, and see if the fan is running and see if you can feel any cold air coming out of that little vent. If not, and the fan is running in the freezer, then that little air damper is probably just stuck closed.
So you're just starved for airflow in your refrigerator section, then the damper assembly is most often the culprit because the only thing in the airflow is that little gate, and it's thermostatically operated.