Beep, Beep, Beep...ARGH!!!

No, I didn't find a bomb, kind of wish I had though.

So I get 3 days off in a row, first time in 7 months. Sunday we went shopping and did some running around. Monday I wake to find our power is out....YET AGAIN!! Seriously, $300 per month and it goes out just because they forcast storms. Anyway, so about 2pm it comes back on.
Awesome, onto the puter I get and start with my Arma 2 projects.
About 1 hour later I hear .... beep, beep, beep........beep, beep, beep.... approx 1 set of beeps every 3 seconds.
This sound was comming from my fridge.

So I fiddle, switch the switches back and forth and eventually start tapping the switch box in the fridge. Light goes green, beeping stops.

3 hours later it starts again.

So out come the tools and I start messing around with the electronics switch box again. Stuck my finger in any hole to see if there's moisture etc.... turns out one of the holes was the light buld socket (keep forgetting to get new bulb), after discovering it was the light socket I decided that finger poking was probably a bad idea.
So I removed the box, can't get to the main plug to switch fridge off so just yanked the plugs off the board. It sparked a little but all seemed good :-D

Turns out there must have been water in there at some point since there was a lot of corosion and green stuff all over the board. So I cleaned it up.
Test after test, it's now 45 minutes since it started beeping and with only the exception of dissconnecting the board it had beeped continuously.

So at this point I am very tempted to drag the fridge outside and shoot it.
Like an old sheep dog who's had it's day, just take him out to the barn and blow that mother away (just for you motc7 :-D )

Anyway, so I cleaned it all up and put it back together, as I plugged it in it came up green light....YES!!!.......beep, beep, beep....ARGH!!!!!!111!!1!!!!1

Apart it comes again, I eventually figure out there's something just not connecting right, various tricks I pull to no avail. I finally discover that pushing down on the board stopps it beeping. Could not find a way to keep preassure on the board without holding it myself. So then I thought, "Well, if it works from pushing, maybe it works with pulling too" so I tested it and sure enough my suspicions were correct.

So here's where it gets uber technical.... went to my recycle box and pulled a piece of cardboard from a frozen food box. Rolled it up, wrapped it with pvc tape and jammed it under the board.... lifting it and stopping the beeping.

Ladies and gentlemen we resume normal operation.

1.5 hours this took.

I think it's time for a new fridge. :-D

BTW, I would just like you guys to know, my poor treatment of the circut board and electronics of the fridge are to a much much lower standard than what I use for PC's.
I mean after all, a fridge just houses food..... PC's are important :-D

 

Bwahahaha!roflmao (on several levels)

 

Hey come on man, I didn't know it was the light socket..... it was too dark to see :-D

And yes, I was applying techniques from other adventures I've had in my life :-D

 

Good thing you didn't find the moisture right before you found the light socket.. roflmao

Then it would have been fried chicken for dinner :-D

Extra Crispy?

 

I hate fridge repair men,you know they're screwing you over,they know they're screwing you over but you have to use them,bit like politicians.:confused

Doesn't matter what's wrong the bill will always be just under the price of a new fridge.

Nice story Ned:cool I'm the opposite of that to the extreme,I over fix things almost to an obsessive level.

Example: My brother lent me his screw gun with a 110 transformer but the gun kept jamming and the transformer kept shorting out and blowing the house trips switches.So I stripped the whole screwgun down,cleaned it fixed the mechanism,lubed it and put it back together.I then stripped the transformer down,he'd removed one of the sockets and just taped the wires together so I got hold of a new 110V socket and fixed it on,inside were 5 bare live wires where it had burned through which I re-soldered and heat shrunk,then fixed the water seal gasket,fixed the damaged AC cable and heatshrunk it and put a new plug on just because I wanted to.

I dunno what it is about fixing and refurbing stuff properly,it just does it for me:-D

 

roflmao roflmao


Watch out for his soldering gun Tim..

 

It's temperature adjustable with a digital readout so it I won't burn him.

Unless he wants me to...:heart

I hear burnt mod smells like bacon:-D

 

Maybe run like chicken?rolleyes:confused

 

roflmao ahahahaha

Oh no.. the bacon card.. now you got me going..


"I like bacon, I like pork, run piggy piggy, I've got a fork"

roflmao

 

http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/!cid_002801c9ac0d$e0c48e60$55BBB0D5@ValuedClientPC.jpg

 

Must be one of those Honda kids that need charging...

 

Or a Chevy Volt??

 

No its a Honda kid.

Chevy volts a car.

 

I could be wrong but that knife looks like it has a wooden handle, so assuming that the the handle is glued and not metal fixed and there is no metal tip on the handle... if thats the case what that child is doing is pretty much perfectly safe.... especially since the kid is intelligent enough not to have his hand near the metal blade... 'cos he might cut himself.