Waeco 80 problem
Submitted: Thursday, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:21
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ross
I have been running the waeco 80 on the warmest setting for a few months and last week turned it up to full to freeze some water.
Since then it wont turn down and seems to be going non stop(although the LED lights are saying its turned down)
The red over ride switch is on OFF .
Its the older model before the digital readout .
Any tricks/fixes before I hand it over to someone.
Are there any good car fridge repairers northern suburbs
Perth?The ones listed by waeco are not to my taste.
Reply By: toyocrusa - Thursday, Apr 16, 2009 at 20:37
Thursday, Apr 16, 2009 at 20:37
Hi
ross. Someone posted a fix for this some time ago which I put in a saved file. I have copied it as follows,
" I found this post Waeco CF50 Thermistor archive during my research and thought Id post a follow up - which requires a new post on account of it having been archived. There would have to be plenty of folks out there with the same fault, which notably is the thermistor itself which had gone out of calibration rather than it having fallen off its mounting.
With already having had this fixed once I was able to 'reverse engineer' the fix. This is simply to remove the outer casing around the compressor, remove the compressor bolts, drop the compressor down a few centimeters, drill a hole through the insulation, glue a new thermistor to the evaporator then insulate and seal it all up again. If you're the type of person that's comfortable dismantling things its quite straightforward, providing you're capable of drilling a hole though the insulation but not into the evaporator.
I would post pictures and a disclaimer about my care but lack of responsibility should you ruin your fridge/life/wife etc, but there's no need. When you order a spare thermistor if you ask nicely it comes with clear instructions and suitable thermal mounting paste/glue. All for $22 plus postage.
Its all very straightforward. I anticipate saving around $300 by doing this repair myself should the fridge last as long as 3 years assuming the failure rate is around once every 2 to 3 years, which it would appear to be in my circumstances.
Interestingly the fridge has run quite happily almost continuously for over 12 months. It was only when it was switched off for a week that the thermistor failed almost immediately upon restarting.
I hope this is of some use to someone out there some day."
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