What usually goes wrong w/Refrigerators?

[spongebrain~~]

Hey guys, I just got a new job with a good company.....finally. I'm going from apartment A/C's and Furnaces to Resi A/c's, Furnaces, hot water tanks, Heat Pumps, and Refrigerators/Freezers.

The fridges and freezers I'm not to familiar with. The only stuff I've repaired on them would be, ice blocks between top and bottom (which happened a lot) and I replaced an Evap fan once.

Can anyone give me a heads up to what I might come accross in the field?

[Gunslinger]

Defrost timers, adaptive defrost boards, evaporator motors, Food placed in front of the cold air inlet to the refrigerator, dirty condenser coils, ice maker failures, drain line plugged up,door switches stuck on causing high temps in refrigerator

[refrige-nate]

broken bi-metal overload in the compressor

[KB Cool]

refrigerant Leaks, dirty coils, locked up compressors, bad cold controls,evap fan motors, condensor fan motors and the dreaded restricted cap tube.

[bryan l]

Can anyone give me a heads up to what I might come accross in the field?

everything!

You stay in it long enough you will turn around one day and say "Well I have seen it all..." And then you will go to work the very next day and say
"WTF how the hell did THAT happen?"

[spongebrain~~]

Yea.........thats pretty much the way it's been so far........don't see any reason for it to change now! I'ts somewhat of a crazy job, but the lack of boredom is one thing that appeals to me.

[mspanky]

Oh, and don't forget the owner's themselves.

[ar_hvac_man]

Compressor start relays. Defrost t-stats.
I get lots of ice maker calls with bad modules and water valves.

[skotup]

refrigerators and freezers can over run and rupture in a massive explosion destroying an entire city block killing 1000's of people. I hope you know what you are doing if you're gonna be working with this stuff. pressures on, pardon the pun.

You could also get an electric shock and die, get caught in a confined space with a refrigerant/nitrogen leak and asphixiate to death. Or breathe in too much bad refrigerant like amonia and die a horrible painful death. Could fall off a roof condensor to a concrete floor and die slowly from fatal injuries.

Could be asked to go live away from home for months leaving your wife at home alone, find out shes been cheating on you hile you were away, divorce, take half ya stuff and the kids.

I spose those are things that could go wrong.

[spongebrain~~]

there, there...........we all have bad days junior....

[gsxrsquid]

there is the ever popular owner defrosting evap with ice pick or knife. psssssssssssss

[spongebrain~~]

that I've seen......