Samsung Refrigerator Cooling On and Off in Palm Harbor: The Inverter Board Wasn't Starting the Compressor
- Symptom
- The refrigerator worked on some visits and failed on others.
- Cause
- The inverter board wasn't always starting the compressor.
- Fix
- Replaced the inverter board.
A regular client in Palm Harbor, whose dryer we’d repaired before, had a Samsung refrigerator with a problem that came and went. The model is RFG298AARS. The date on the label is June 2010.
It worked when we were there
We’d been out to this refrigerator once before and everything worked. This time everything worked again. We ran the compressor a few times, and it doesn’t always start. That’s the kind of problem that’s easy to miss, because the refrigerator can behave perfectly while you’re standing in front of it.
What was wrong
On this Samsung the compressor is run by an inverter board. It decides when the compressor starts and how fast it runs. The board wasn’t starting the compressor every time, so we replaced it.
We also put together a page on what an inverter board does and how we check one, including the error codes Samsung refrigerators show when the compressor doesn’t start.
If your refrigerator cools some days and not others, call us. Our refrigerator repair service covers Palm Harbor, Oldsmar, Clearwater and nearby.
FAQ
Why does my Samsung refrigerator cool sometimes and not other times?
On this Samsung the compressor is run by an inverter board, and the board wasn't always starting it. That's why the problem came and went.
Why can an intermittent refrigerator problem be hard to find?
Because it can work fine while we're there. On the first visit here everything worked, and on the next one the compressor still ran when we tested it, so we kept testing until we saw it fail to start.