So a question about my refrigerator...
I noticed the other day the fresh food portion was freezing all of my food (freezer is on bottom). I noticed the fridge is permanently running. I cleaned it out underneath and made sure the coils weren't frozen...check. I made sure the fan was running and pulling heat away from the compressor...check.
However the damper in the fridge was permanently open. I took it apart tonight and it's a simple mechanical damper with thermistor.
So I'm assuming this part failed. Either the damper physically broke or something failed with the thermistor. My question is, would this possibly cause the compressor to keep running and cold air to keep blowing? With the damper permanently open I would think it would still get cold enough to stop kicking the compressor on and blowing cold air. But if the thermistor is fried it may be thinking it's continuously too warm in there and the damper stays open and compressor keeps running? I just figured the compressor ran based on a thermistor in the freezer portion and not the fridge part, but I'm not exactly an expert with these things. I thought maybe someone here has an idea and could help. It's an older Maytag, but it's a Whirlpool part too.
edit...just turned up the setting on the freezer and the compressor and blower kicked off. So maybe that's running normal and there's just too much cold air escaping into the fridge part forcing it to keep running?