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A cabinet that will not hold temperature on the Alpicool G family points first at a failed evaporator fan motor. Anyone who has already worked the brand-generic article can skip its opening: this family does not rank the causes the same way. Most of what follows can be settled without opening anything; only the last item is a service call.
What this looks like on a G unit
- The cabinet is warm but the unit is clearly running — The compressor is audible; the air inside is not cold.
- The unit never cycles off — Continuous running without reaching temperature is the same fault seen from outside.
- Condensation inside the door — Warm wet air is getting in somewhere along the seal line.
- Food at the front is warmer than food at the back — A vent blocked by the load will do exactly this.
- One compartment holds and the other does not — Cold being made but not moved looks exactly like this.
- Advice for a G unit does not fit yours — Check which side of the gap in the model table your entry sits on — the two groups are not laid out the same way.
- NEAR MISS — water under the unit and normal temperature — A leak with a cold cabinet is the leak page, not this one.
Causes, most likely first on the G family
- A failed evaporator fan motor — It leads here. It produces a warm cabinet with no frost sheet to show for it, which is how it separates from the airflow cause.
- A condenser fan that has stopped — It sits behind the lead here. The coil is fine and nothing is moving air across it, which looks identical to a blocked coil from inside.
- A door seal that no longer closes on the cabinet — It is third on this family. A seal that has taken a set from being stored shut behaves differently from one that is torn.
- A sealed-system leak or a failed compressor — Last on this family. Oil at the compressor or a coil that never gets warm are the two signs that take you straight here.
- Body: The brand-generic article on this symptom opens on a frosted evaporator blocking the air path. Here it does not: a failed evaporator fan motor has moved above it, and a frosted evaporator blocking the air path has moved down the list. What moved it is the shape of this family's numbering rather than anything about the brand as a whole.
Check in this order, and why
- Check whether one compartment holds while the other drifts — Cold made and not moved gives exactly that split.
- Check that the condenser fan is turning while the compressor runs — A clean coil with no air across it looks identical to a blocked one from inside the cabinet.
- Run a hand along the seal line with the door shut — Cold escaping at a point is warm air arriving at the same point.
- Feel whether the condenser ever gets warm during a run — A coil that never warms while the compressor runs points at the sealed system.
- Body: The gap in the G numbering matters here: the low group and the high group are laid out differently enough that the first check is worth confirming against your own member.
Safety first
Safety
Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before removing any panel; a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. Do not tape or bridge the door switch to keep a fan running while you look. An interlock that is defeated is a blade that turns while a hand is in the cabinet. The sealed system is out of scope for every check on this page. If a step would mean opening it, the step is a service call instead.
Models in the G family
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| G15 | alpicool:refrigerator:g |
| G20 | alpicool:refrigerator:g |
| G22 | alpicool:refrigerator:g |
| G55 | alpicool:refrigerator:g |
| G65 | alpicool:refrigerator:g |
When to call a technician
The line here is drawn at the first check that cannot be made from outside the cabinet. Work down the checks above first; they cost minutes and they remove most of this list. Call once they have all come back clean, because what is left is a sealed-system leak or a failed compressor, and that is the only item on this page that cannot be judged from outside the cabinet. Skip the rest of the list and call if the unit is tripping protection repeatedly. A circuit that keeps opening is telling you something the checks above cannot.
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