Operating Sounds - Kenmore 596.57002600 Use & Care Manual

Operating Sounds

Improvements in refrigeration design may produce sounds in your new refrigerator that are different or were not
present in an older model. These improvements were made to create a refrigerator that is better at preserving food,
is more energy efficient and is quieter overall. Please note that the surfaces adjacent to a refrigerator, such as hard
walls, floors and cabinetry may make these sounds seem even louder. The following are some of the normal sounds
that may be noticed in a new refrigerator.
SOUND
• Freezer control (A) clicks when starting or
Clicking
stopping compressor.
• Defrost timer or electric damper control (B)
sounds like an electric clock and snaps in and
out of defrost cycle.
• Condenser fan (D) makes this noise while
Air rushing
or whirring operating.
• Freezer fan (C) makes this noise while
operating.
• Freezer fan (C) slows to a stop as the freezer
door is opened.
• Evaporator (E) and heat exchanger (F)
Gurgling or
refrigerant make this noise when flowing.
boiling sound
• Ice cubes from ice maker drop into ice bucket (G).
Thumping
• Dispenser ice chute (H) closing.
• Compressor (I) makes a pulsating sound while
Vibrating
running.
noise
• Refrigerator is not level.
Buzzing • Ice maker water valve (J) hookup buzzes when
ice maker fills with water.
• Ice maker (K) is in the 'on' position without
Humming
water connection.
• Ice auger (L) hums as auger agitates ice during
dispensing.
• Compressor (I) can make a high pitched hum
while operating.
• Solenoid valve (M) operating ice chute door.
POSSIBLE CAUSE SOLUTION
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
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• Normal operation
• Normal operation
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• Normal operation
• See Leveling (see page 9).
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Stop sound by raising ice maker arm
to OFF position. See Automatic Ice
Maker, page 18 for details.
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
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