Alarm LED of the refrigerator is on. What do we do ? It turned on when I was trying to remove the ice from the freezer. I stopped the process the moment I noticed this alarm was on. I already tried switching off the power and switching it back on after few mins. The alarm LED was still glowing. Will this go away if I wait or should I call some technician to fix this ?

by RevolutionaryKey8369

10 comments

  2. It just means the temperature is below what it needs to be to keep the food frozen

  3. It usually means that there’s been power outage, temperature is too low or door doesn’t shut properly.
    So now you know that it works. Turn it off completely (pakastin to zero) and let it melt the ice naturally.

  4. Might be a stupid question, but did you power it off while you were removing ice? Usually the alarm is lit if the temperature inside raises too much, so that would explain if you had the door open while it was operational.

  6. Alarm is probably caused by temperature sensor, so temperature is too low. Push the alarm reset and that also starts the freezing process faster than normal. Push the button for few seconds.

    If that doesn’t solve the issue the temperature sensor maybe broken. Then it needs to serviced by a professional.

    Edit.

    Keep the door shut, unless you want to defrost,turn of the device and let the ice melt. Have some towels at hand if there is a lot of ice. Then try freezing it again.

  7. You have to put whole thing off, smelt the ice and when you turn it back on press that ”pakastus” button to ”fast freeze” it again. If you dont press it it might take hour or two to be -18 again. But its not anyhow recommended to smelt the ice when fridge is on. And dont smash them or you might break those small pipes where ice is.

  8. This is it, have to remove all the ice. If you unplug it and don’t try to get the ice out it will get really messy. Remove all the racks and put them somewhere they can drain and melt, try to gently pry off all the ice and collect it to the sink.

  10. On old freezers the alarm goes on when inside temperature is too high for your food to stay deep frozen.

    Fridge / freezer de-icing 101.

    Take the power off, now the machine is trying to keep stuff cold and is running constantly, those pipes inside the ice are now below freezing and the ice will not melt from around them.

    Also melt the ice, do not hack it away, you will most probably just puncture a pipe where the gas runs and break the whole thing.

    Use something to blow hot air into the fridge. Car cabin heater.
    Or even old ~2kW vacuum cleaner (throw the dust back to trash before starting), aim the arse side that blows, towards fridge and full power very soon warm air and lots of it.

    Boil a big kettle of water and put it inside the fridge.

    Oh and do this yearly or every 2 years so you do not have so much ice there. Its bad for efficiency and makes keeping stable temp hard for the machine.

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