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Maintenance
Unplug the appliance before carrying out any maintenance operation.
Warning
This appliance contains hydrocarbons in its cooling unit maintenance and
recharging must therefore only be carried out by authorised technicians.
Defrosting
Bleeding part of the moisture of cooling chamber in form of frost and ice
goes with the operation of the refrigerator.
Thick frost and ice has an insulating effect, so it reduces cooling efficiency
as the temperature increases and it needs more energy.
At this type of appliance defrosting cooling compartment is automatic
without any external intervention.
The thermostatic control interrupts the operation of compressor at regular
intervals for more or less time - during this cooling is interrupted -
temperature of the cooling compartment increases and defrosting occurs.
After defrosting the thermostatic control restarts operation of the system.
Melting water flows through defrost water outlet into the evaporative tray
maintained on the top of compressor and evaporates due to warmth of it.
Check and clean the outlet
of melting water coming
during defrosting regularly. If it is
clogged the melting water
gathered can cause earlier failure
as it can go to the insulating of
the appliance.
Clean the melting water outlet with
the supplied pipe scraper that can be
seen in the figure. The pipe scraper
has to be stored in the outlet.
Occasionally check the defrost
water outlet not to be clogged up.
The most typical case of clogging up in the defrost water outlet when you
put food wrapped in some paper into the appliance and this paper contacts
back plate of cooling compartment and freezes to it. If you remove the food
