FGHG2368TF4 Frigidaire Gallery Inverter Refrigerator Not Cooling

[Guest]

So I found this refrigerator looking in nearly new condition other than a torn door seal; so I took it home because I needed another project to go with the other ones.

I plugged it in and it it sounds like the compressor is running, and when I use the button to turn it off there is a change of sound and then when I turned it back on I would say I heard and felt the compressor turn on and it shook for a few seconds. I let it run for several hours, it got a little cooler but clearly not the right temperature. 

I see other posts about how to test an inverter refrigerator, I'll go with those instead of pretending they don't exist. 

My reason for posting this message is to ask if there is something special about how this works that would stop me from disconnecting the inverter box and installing a Supco hard start capacitor kit just to see if the compresssor will run and get things cold?  I guess I'm curious to know if this could be an easy work around for all the electrical testing and therefore quickly determine that the inverter box is the issue?

Just a thought I has and wanted to see what the peeps had to say.

Thanks

[Guest]

Ending this thread as I think I posted too much information instead of just getting to the actual question. 

[Guest]

In case anyone reads this the solution seems to be the evaporator fan was stuck.  I took the cover off the are where the fan is and spun the fan by hand and it moved freely but did not start running and then I relazed the switch that detects the drawer being open needed to be pressed for the fan to turn on.

My best guess is something had been sucked up into the fan causing it to stick and was then dislodged by me rotating the fan.  Had I thought to press the door switch before moving the fan blades my theory of the fan being stuck could have been proven.

As of now everything has run properly for close to 48 hours. 

 

[jiaho]

glad it works now !