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We've had a GE fridge that's probably older than about 10 years. But you know, it's complicated enough that it feels like it's made to fail at some point.
Well, stuff stopped cooling but all the lights were on and everything else worked. It was really weird. We were thinking it might be a dead compressor or something. Crap, do we need a new fridge?
Nope! What basically amounts to a glorified computer fan with a fancier proprietary plug does all the work of distributing that cold air through the rest of the unit.
The proprietary plug is totally so they can sell it for $45, of course. Lol anyway, works like new!
Also get a dust mask and vacuum + blow out the back of your refrigerators, people. They get grooooss!!!
Ya. That black server fan in the frig is very common for the model of frig..also the little white resistance sensor on the coil tends to fall off of the tube sometimes causing it to defrost poorly. I like to swap them out when I'm doing the fan as a prophylactic.
The reason they use that fan is because it's super quiet and voltage can be regulated to it for different spin speeds which I turn is supposed to save energy.
The issue with the fan in and of itself is that it's inherently an aftermarket fan produced by an aftermarket manufacturer for GE. It's just junk.