Disable Chest Freezer Temp Alarm

[makomachine]

Ok - took a shot at this for lunch and was a lot easier than I thought. I went plier method on the speaker and was easy enough to do and no more beeping. Thanks!

 

[Alstein]

Old thread I know, but I used it for research to solve the same problem I had with the temp alarm. Solved my problem... I have a new Kenmore ~24 cu ft freezer. I found that the alarm was coming from the door handle where it displays the interior temp. On the handle there is also an alarm reset button that mutes the alarm.

To get to the inside of the handle, I had to drop the liner on the inside of the door. To do this, I removed all the snap-in pegs along the front edge of the door that holds the liner in place (they are under the seal on the door). Once I got the liner dropped enough, I looked for screws holding the handle on from the inside. I pulled the insulation down a little and found 2 nuts that were screwed onto plastic pegs attached to the handle. These nuts were hard to get off only because they could not be seen without a mirror. (I didn't have a mirror so used the back of a ratchet handle like a dentist tool.) I used a wrench to get the nuts off.

Once the handle was technically not attached anymore, I realized the lock on the front of the door was holding the handle on, but it was just a matter of prying the handle off of the lock (not breaking it). With the handle off, the user interface circuit board was screwed onto the underside of the handle. I unscrewed it, which then showed me my nemesis - the speaker. I couldn't see a way to remove it without breaking it. But I realized the alarm reset button was also on the circuit board. What I did was find a small piece of plastic in the garage that I could put in between the button on the circuit board and the button that is pressed by the user on the handle. When I screwed the circuit board back on the handle, the button made a click, meaning it was pressed. I turned power back on and the alarm does 1 beep then is silenced! I reassembled the handle back on and the insulation and liner back into place. I now hardly ever know it beeps the one time, and this is much better than it beeping constantly when on. Plus, all I have to do is remove the piece of plastic if I want it to work as normal again!

Cheers,
Kojones

Hi,

I know this was a while back for you, but...
I have a unit with an alarm silence button on the board as well. this button also locks the temperature control keypad when depressed for a few seconds. Does yours have this feature, and it it does, was it an issue in always locking the keypad by default when powered on? Typing through this, I suppose it doesn't matter as I'll have a temp controller hooked up to control the freezer temp anyway, and will just put the freezer to one of the coldest temp settings.

Just curious. Thanks.

 

[Alstein]

I ended up taking out the control board from the door, and placing a square of folded up electrical tape between the alarm silence button on the circuit board and the housing so that the button is always pressed. Worked like a charm. Alarm never goes off, freezer runs fine with the Johnson temp controller.