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- Page 1 Manual #46110103 2002 TRIO DOOR BOTTOM MOUNT REFRIGERATOR Models 596.73502200, 596.73503200, 596.73504200, 596.73509200 ©Sears, Roebuck and Co.
- Page 2 Table Of Contents Introduction ............................. 3 THEORY OF OPERATION .......................... 4 Cabinet Airflow............................4 Machine Compartment Airflow ......................5 Refrigerant Flow............................6 Water Dispenser/Filter System......................7 COMPONENT ACCESS/REPLACEMENT....................8 Fresh Food Door Removal ........................8 Drawer Removal............................8 Center Mullion (including heater)......................8 REFRIGERATOR COMPARTMENT......................
- Page 3 (such as exposure to electrical shock) may result. CAUTION Sears will not be responsible for any injury or property damage from improper service procedures. If performing service on your own product, assume responsibility for any personal injury or property damage which may result.
- Page 4 Theory of Operation WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Internal Airflow REFRIGERATOR AIR SUPPLY TUNNEL TO...
- Page 5 Theory of Operation WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. External Airflow COMPRESSOR DRIP PAN...
- Page 6 Theory of Operation WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Refrigerant Flow CAPILLARY TUBE...
- Page 7 Theory of Operation WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Water Dispenser / Filter System 5/16"...
- Page 8 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Doors Fresh Food Doors 1.
- Page 9 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Light Bulb Assembly 1.
- Page 10 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Adaptive Defrost Board 1.
- Page 11 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Water Tank 1.
- Page 12 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Light Socket 1.
- Page 13 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Defrost Heater 1.
- Page 14 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Drawer Assembly 1.
- Page 15 Component Access/ Replacement WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Compressor 1.
- Page 16 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Symptom Possible Causes Corrective Action...
- Page 17 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Symptom Possible Causes Corrective Action...
- Page 18 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Symptom Possible Causes Corrective Action...
- Page 19 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Component Description Test Procedures...
- Page 20 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Component Description Test Procedures...
- Page 21 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Component Description Test Procedures...
- Page 22 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Component Description Test Procedures...
- Page 23 Troubleshooting WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Component Description Test Procedures...
- Page 24 Technical Information WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. No-Load Performance, Controls in Normal Position Refrigerator Center Compartment...
- Page 25 Technical Information WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Specifications all parts Part Number Component...
- Page 26 Technical Information WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. Seconds to dispense 10 oz.
- Page 27 Technical Information WARNING To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury, or death, disconnect electrical power source to unit, unless test procedures require power to be connected. Discharge capacitor through a resistor before attempting to service. Ensure all ground wires are connected before certifying unit as repaired and/or operational. See Note below about alternate wiring of Refrigerator door harness...
- Page 28 Appendix A...
- Page 29 Manual de uso y cuidado Réfrigérateur à compartiment inférieur Guide d’utilisation et d’entretien Models: 596.73502200, 596.73503200, 596.73504200, 596.73509200 Part No. 12642720 Sears, Roebuck and Co., Hoffman Estates, IL 60179 U.S.A. www.sears.com Form B/10/02 Sears Canada, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2B8 Au Canada, www.sears.ca...
- Page 30 Important safety information RECOGNIZE SAFETY What you need to know DANGER SYMBOLS, WORDS, about safety To reduce risk of injury or death, LABELS follow basic precautions, including instructions the following: DANGER IMPORTANT: Child entrapment and DANGER – Immediate hazards Warning and Important Safety suffocation are not problems of the which WILL result in severe personal Instructions appearing in this manual are...
- Page 31 Your purchase has added value because IN THE U.S.A. you can depend on Sears HomeCentral ® Sears has over 12,000 professional Congratulations on making a smart for service. With over 2,400 Service repair specialists, who have access to purchase.
- Page 32 For one year from the date of purchase, Model Number: 596. _______________ maintained according to instructions when this refrigerator is operated and attached to or furnished with it, Sears maintained according to instructions Serial Number: ____________________ will repair it, free of charge, if defective attached to or furnished with it, Sears in material or workmanship.
- Page 33 Contents Important Safety Information ..................2 What You Need to Know About Safety Instructions...........2 Electrical Requirements .....................2 Protection Agreements ....................3 Master Protection Agreements – U.S.A..............3 Maintenance Agreements – Canada .................3 Warranty - United States ....................4 Product Record......................4 Warranty - Canada ......................4 Installing Your Refrigerator ..................6-11 Measuring the Opening .....................6 Transporting Your Refrigerator...................6...
- Page 34 Installing your refrigerator These instructions were provided to aid Selecting the best Opening and closing you in the installation of your location your fresh food doors refrigerator. Observe these points when choosing the Your new refrigerator is uniquely Measuring the opening final location for your refrigerator: designed with two fresh food doors.
- Page 35 4. Lift right side refrigerator door from Removing and replacing How to remove the center hinge pin. Remove door handles hinges, doors and closure from center hinge pin on the right side. drawer Removing fresh food handles: ➢ Retain door closure for later use. 1.
- Page 36 Installing your refrigerator, cont. 10. Pull upper basket out to full 13. Remove both stabilizing brackets WARNING extension, and lift out to remove. with " hex head driver. ⁄ To avoid electrical shock which can ➢ Retain screws for later use. cause severe personal injury or death, disconnect power to refrigerator before removing doors.
- Page 37 5. With drawer pulled out to full 7. Install center hinges with Phillips How to replace the extension, insert lower basket by screws. hinges, doors and aligning tabs on both side of lower ➢ Replace door closure on the right basket with notches in rail assembly.
- Page 38 Installing your refrigerator, cont. MATERIALS NEEDED 4. Place end of copper tubing into water How to connect the valve inlet port. Shape tubing slightly – ➢ " outer diameter flexible copper ⁄ water supply DO NOT KINK – so that tubing feeds tubing straight into inlet port.
- Page 39 MATERIALS NEEDED 4. Turn stabilizing legs (C) clockwise How to level your until firmly against floor. ➢ " hex head driver ⁄ refrigerator 5. Turn front roller adjustment screws ➢ Level (A) 2 to 3 times counterclockwise, so If your refrigerator requires an ice maker that full weight of refrigerator rests on 1.
- Page 40 Setting and maintaining proper temperatures The controls are located at the top front of the refrigerator and freezer compartments. NOTE: The freezer control turns the cooling system on. Neither section will cool if freezer control is set to off. Refrigerator Control Freezer Control TEMPERATURE CONTROL GUIDE Initial control settings...
- Page 41 9005 is available when filter change is required. through Sears dealers and servicers. ➢ If water filtration system has been You may also order through Sears by allowed to freeze, replace filter using the information on the back cover. cartridge.
- Page 42 0.010 mg/L uses a 9005 replacement cartridge (see Cyst Minimum 50,000/L 1count/mL 99.99% 3 count/mL > 99.95% Sears contact information at the back of Turbidity 11+/-1 NTU 0.12 NTU 98.98% 0.18 NTU 0.5 NTU your Use and Care Guide to order).
- Page 43 Fresh food features Water dispenser Door storage Accessories A Water Dispenser DAIRY CENTER COVERED STORAGE is located on the BUCKET The Dairy Center left side wall of the provides convenient fresh food section. The Storage Bucket has storage for items This design is for a lid and removable egg such as butter,...
- Page 44 Fresh food features, cont. ➢ DO NOT line crispers with paper To remove and install Gourmet Climate-controlled towels. Towels will retain moisture. Pantry: drawers ➢ DO NOT place leafy vegetables in ➢ To remove Gourmet Pantry, lift lid and the temperature-controlled drawer. pull drawer out to full extension.
- Page 45 Freezer features Operating Instructions Automatic ice maker Drawers 1. Confirm ice bin is in place and ice maker arm is down. CAUTION PULLOUT DRAWER 2. After freezer section reaches 0° to 2° F BASKETS To avoid property damage, observe (-18° to -17° C), ice maker fills with the following: (Door assembly of drawer removed from water and begins operating.
- Page 46 ➢ Dry glass and clear items immediately to avoid spots. * A stainless steel cleaner has been included inside the refrigerator for your use. To purchase additional cleaner, please contact Sears using the information on the back of your manual.
- Page 47 Use and Care Guide If odor was not eliminated, contact point. Doing so may damage light every 3 months. This will increase Sears Service Center. Refer to back of shield. energy efficiency and cooling manual for phone number.
- Page 48 Normal operating sounds Today’s refrigerators use foam insulation and are more energy efficient than refrigerators of the past. However, foam insulation is not as sound absorbent as former insulated models. As a result, certain sounds may be unfamiliar. In time, these sounds will become familiar.
- Page 49 Troubleshooting Operation PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE SOLUTION Food temperature Door is not closing properly. See Installing Your Refrigerator–How to Level Your appears too warm Refrigerator section on how to properly level refrigerator. Check gaskets for proper seal. Clean, if necessary, according to cleaning instructions.
- Page 50 Plastic tubing was used to complete water Sears recommends using copper tubing for installation. water connection. Plastic is less durable and can cause leakage. Sears is not responsible for property damage due to improper installation or water connection. Ice forms in inlet tube to Improper water valve was installed.
- Page 51 Notes...
- Page 52 Part No. 12642720 Form B/10/02...
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