Hi Guys,
Hoping someone can give me some points please?
My friends pub fridge has stopped working, and they have lost £100's worth of steak :(
The problem is:
- The fridge turns urns on ok, and the display is showing ~20'C, which is correct, and the thermostat changes if you hold it/put ice on it, so I think this is working ok.
- The controller has 240v going in to it on one side of the relay, but has no output, but when you power the fridge up, the controller seems to 'click' as if the internal relay is activating, but there is still no output. So, I think the controller may be at fault?
- I could have put 240v on to the compressor to make it start up, but not being a refrigeration engineer, I wasn't confident doing this (I'm a sparky) in case something was wrong.
So to summarise, you can turn the fridge on, all looks ok, but nothing happens, and nothing cools.
The fridge is a 'Polar Refrigeration G594' and the controller is a Ektron REK 31.
Am I correct in thinking that this controller should be sending the 240v to the compressor? The small LED does go under the fridge symbol when I hear the 'click'.
The owner of the fridge did say it was making a humming noise, but has now stopped? Not sure what this was about....
Thank you for any help
Ryan