Fridge issues!

cakster

I've just been to pick up a £20 fridge I bought on Facebook...it's not going to be our family fridge I want to use it for occasional dough retarding. Anyway. That's beside the point. I'm just explaining why I've bought such a cheap fridge!!

Anyway strange issues...the fridge has two fans, one in the top of the fridge compartment (presumably to move the cold air about) and one at the back next to the compressor. Neither of these seem ever to come on.

The fridge has an interior fluorescent tube light. This works.

The fridge has a adjustable thermostat. Adjusting it doesn't seem to affect the running of the compressor or the fans.

The back panel inside the fridge compartment does get pretty cold, about 3°C as measured with my thermometer, but the rest of the fridge compartment doesn't seem to get any colder - presumably because the internal fan isn't active.

The external condensor coils on the rear of the fridge do get warm.

I can hear and see the compressor working (it slightly shudders when it stops etc).

Any ideas?? Could it be that the timer is stuck in defrost, even though the fridge hasn't a freezer compartment?

The the fridge in question is a Helkama C165G



Any help appreciated. Thanks

unforeseen

It's not actually a fridge but a display cooler.
No idea why the fans don't work but it is only designed to provide a temperature between +2 & +12°C.

http://www.finnriga.com/?elid=26&ch_lang=en

cakster

OK - by It seems to be very similar to a fridge in operation for all intents and purposes? It works (or should work!) in the same way?