Not sure if you will see this, but I have a question. I replaced the heater and the sensor and It looks like I received the same replacement heater you all used. Where the wire from the left side has its own connector. The OEM heater’s left side wire is connected with the right to go into the same wire harness. In your video at the 8 minute mark you all cut and go to the finishing steps. Before that, the left wire is still sitting unconnected. After 8 minutes it is connected. Did you all splice the wire? in the empty harrness/connector that was on the right wire or do you leave it dangling and do nothing? This is the second time I have ordered this part. It does not look exactly like the original but close. Help I am at a total loss here. I have pics if I can send them.
First one I sent back second one I put in but is it correct.
- Guest asked 9 years ago
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The manufacture has changed the heater.. You can no longer get the original with the correct connector/wire. Check the heater with your meter on the ohms settings. You should get a reading of about 80 ohms if it is good. If so you can reuse your old heater. If you install the new heater you will need to cut the connector for the left side off of the old heater, leaving yourself with with as much wire as you can. Cut it off right at the metal heater so you will have the whole wire with the connector. Now cut the left connector off of the new heater , but close to the actual connector so that you leave the majority of the wire on the new heater. You will dispose of this wire. Next, take the wire with connector from the old heater and attach it to the wire on the new heater. TO do this you will need wire strippers to strip back the ends of the wire and a connector like a wire nut to secure them together. You will want to use some electrical grade silicone to fill the wire nut to make it water proof or another type of water proof connector. Now your new heater will be long enough to plug in, just like the original. With a defrost issue you will have frost build up on the back panel. Air flow will not get circulated from this and cause the unit to not cool. When you thaw the unit to clear the frost out, it will work correctly for about 5 days until the frost builds back up again.
- Brian, Ace Appliance answered 9 years ago
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HI. I do see what you are talking about. The original heater connection on the left side is much longer that the new one. In the video we reused the old heater since it was still good. The connection on the new heater is not long enough to reach over to the plug in. I looked up just the heater( not is the assembly) and it looks like its the same way. The part number for just the heater is DA47-00322J. I attached a link to a picture of this heater. IT looks like the left connection is the same as what you have and is still not long enough. Take a look at it and see what you think. Looks like they made a mistake with this new heater. Is you original heater good? you can check it with an ohm meter. IF so you could re use the heater. Did you test which part was in this defrost system was bad? Your other option would be to splice the old heater connector on the the new one with enough slack to reach the plug in.
- Brian, Ace Appliance answered 9 years ago
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I have already ordered this part twice from repair clinic and both times the left side is too short. I still have the last one I ordered and installed it as is in refrigerator. I tried checking my old heater with ohm meter but don’t know if I was doing it correctly. Could you help me with this also. I have replaced the thermistor and temp sensors because they were so cheap. As a last option how in the heck do I splice the old heater connector on the new one and why in the heck can’t I get the correct part. Your part # is correct. What size wire do I need etc. I hate this refrigerator it is only 4 years old and has already spoiled a lot of food. My syptoms began with a refrigerator that was warm not cooling. Their was also water on the bottom right side of refrigerator. Later this froze and I found my water filter busted due to freezing but only at bottom of refrigerator and of course water dispenser not working. This seemed most probable that defrost heater assembly was the culprit but no way to know for sure. Intermittently the refrigerator will cool then go warm again, and again, and again. I am DIY but and have fixed other appliances but this one is my hardest to date. Usually easy to figure out but this one is a total pain but don’t have money for $300 bill either. I definately need your help. I followed video on how to check defrost heater assembly but I dont think it was working correctly/ I need help even if it is step by step to eliminate all possiblilites.
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