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Originally Posted by Xringer
When I took off the back panel (cardboardish), the compressor and fan area looked a lot like the heat sink area around an Intel 486 CPU that's been running full time since the 1990s..
One massive dust bunny.
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Mine has a snail shaped flat plate coil which in 2002 was a dust bunny after only one year of continuous airborne cat fur. At that point, I fashioned a coarse air conditioner filter out of synthetic filter floss to collect the fur. Now, I just wash the filter like I do with the A/C air handler.
I've had more problems due to defective "automatic defrost controller boards" than anything in my side-by-side. Once the ADC board relay contacts begin to burn out, the freezer coil blocks up with ice and leaves the refrigerator compartment warming up calling for more cooling when the compressor is giving it all it can, running continuously. At that point, I defrost the freezer coil with a hair dryer, and order a new ADC board.