I have a samsung rf261 french door refrigerator with bottom freezer.
Force defrost samsung french door fridge.
If the defrost sensor fuse blows the defrost system will not work and the refrigerator will not defrost.
We recently purchased a french door refrigerator by samsung rf263beaeww from best buy heavily discounted as scratch and dent 1 200 instead of 2 300 plus all the extra money.
Manual defrost for samsung refrigerator rf261 by aengineer2 dec 5 2014 12 10pm pst.
To force defrost a samsung refrigerator press the power freeze and fridge buttons on tabletop control models at the same time for 8 seconds until the display panel turns blank.
Force defrost fan hitting iced over coils making noice when fridge door closed.
Press the power freeze and fridge buttons simultaneously for about 8 seconds until the display goes blank.
To put a samsung refrigerator into forced defrost mode you need to press a few button sequences press both the power freeze and fridge buttons at the same time hold both buttons in until display beeps and goes blank to force fridge defrost element to come on press freezer button a second time.
Heres the procedure thatll work for most curr.
If youre troubleshooting a defrosting problem with your samsung refrigerator one of the first things youll want to do is manually put it into defrost mode so you can use your meter and see if the control board is sending 120vac to the defrost heater.
Then press any other button until fd comes up.
If the defrost sensor fails to shut off the defrost heater the fuse will blow in order to shut off the defrost heater.
If you have a samsung refrigerator with the szab001ta1 ice maker you have a problem.
Those may include the fill tube heater damper door heaters and duct heaters besides the obvious defrost heater.
Samsung recommends first trying to reset your ice maker as this might propel the appliance into action to defrost itself.
A few months ago the fan started making.
Then press any other button until fd appears.
The solution sent out to all samsung service techs in a bulletin is in the new post on this subject here.