venpen
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Hi all,
I am having a problem with a GE GTS22WCMBRWW.
Every day or two for the last month or so the freezer temp goes up to the 30s-40s. Then it starts freezing again at some point. At first I suspected that the door seal/gasket was bad so I installed a new one. That did not help. This is what I have done so far:
1. inspected the compressor/fan area and nothing looked bad.
2. vacuumed the dust blanket from the cage behind that fan. that didnt help.
3. checked the model and serial no (GD314944) against the GE boards recall list in your forum but I couldnt find it  .
4. followed your troubleshooting flow chart and got stuck on the "evaporator coated in fuzzy ice"... At furst it was NO because the compressor hasnt been working the last 24 hours... When it started working the answer is YES... here is what I observed the last 3-4 days:
Thursday night- I vacuumed the dust behind the fridge- went to bed with the freezer working. Set both dials at 5 per your forum.
Friday evening- found icecream melted... so I put the weather station sensor in the freezer, checked the door sensors(they work), looked at the board(everything seemed/smelled normal), read your forum  to figure out how things need to work. sometime during that evening the freezer started to cool down from about 30ish down to 0 or 1F so I went to bed.
Sat morning- freezer was still around 0 or -1 but I was trying to see what happens when the defrost kicks in.
Sat afternoon around 3-4pm (coincided with when we started to open the fridge door more) the temp started going up again. It went up to 36ish. When i went to bed it was about 28-32.
Sunday morning (today) it was the same. I was busy all day but when I came back home around 4pm I started working on it. I went by your flowchart and of course the evaporator didnt have any ice on it. I jumped J8 with L1 (with he board unplugged) and the compressor kicked in momentarily. then when I re-plugged the board the compressor FINALLY started working . That was about an hour- hour and a half ago. 30 min after that YES there was fuzzy ice on the evaporator so the flowchart took me to the "troubleshoot defrost system failure" step. BTW by now the freezer temp is 9 and going down... I know it is only for a day or two though  .
Here is my version (with my limited refridgerator knowledge based on reading your forums):
compressor is fine; defrost works fine but after it is over something is failing to start the compressor again- either board or the defrost thermostat (BIG GUESS). i keep thinking if the thermostat is supposed to tell the board to start the compressor back at a certain temp it is failing to do that. I dont know what has been making it magically start after a day or so in the last month or so (doors openning/closing?) but thats my guess. So i am thinking of getting a new thermostat tomorrow and try replacing.
Am I on the right track? Or is anything telling you it may be the board or something else?
What are the steps to replace the thermostat? i recall reading about splicing the wires and using wire nuts and something about silicon but not sure where to put the silicon... Also do i need to remove the evaporator to get to the thermostat- looks like it is behind it . Sorry if any of those questions were dumb...
Thank you!!!!!
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