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My Electrolux RM184EGI fridge conked out last week (while I was away of course) and would not work on gas. So after a bit of fiddling around to find out why the gas would not ignite - tested the thermostat, power into the fridge, etc. The culprit was the igniter/re-igniter unit.
The unit has four wires coming into it,
The high tension for the spark electrode
A power lead
An earth connection
A lead to the light on the front of the fridge that flashes when the spark is clicking away.
The unit is easy enough to remove, just two screws and all the leads have spade connectors.
When I got the unit out it smelt of burnt plastic and had distorted in a couple of places.
To test it you need to apply 12V and an earth lead to the appropriate spade connectors and then a lead to the high tension spade connector and then hold that near the earth - if you get a spark you know that the fault lies elsewhere - probably the spark electrode wire/circuit.
Turning it over and its a resin filled unit so is pretty well incapable of being fixed, but considering the date it was made (1984) its not done badly.
Problem now was going to be finding a replacement - not a chance in Australia as the RM184 fridges were not imported by Electrolux. Google is always your friend in these situations and within about ten minutes I had sourced a new unit out of the UK from brickwerks.co.uk - the owner was helpful, responded quickly and the purchase was without the 20% UK VAT which made the thing a lot cheaper. Airmail from the UK is about 5 to 7 days, so quicker than I could have got it from any source in Australia.
Hope this helps - the process is pretty much the same for all Electrolux fridges until they went fully electronic in the 1990s(?).
The unit has four wires coming into it,
The high tension for the spark electrode
A power lead
An earth connection
A lead to the light on the front of the fridge that flashes when the spark is clicking away.
The unit is easy enough to remove, just two screws and all the leads have spade connectors.
When I got the unit out it smelt of burnt plastic and had distorted in a couple of places.
To test it you need to apply 12V and an earth lead to the appropriate spade connectors and then a lead to the high tension spade connector and then hold that near the earth - if you get a spark you know that the fault lies elsewhere - probably the spark electrode wire/circuit.
Turning it over and its a resin filled unit so is pretty well incapable of being fixed, but considering the date it was made (1984) its not done badly.
Problem now was going to be finding a replacement - not a chance in Australia as the RM184 fridges were not imported by Electrolux. Google is always your friend in these situations and within about ten minutes I had sourced a new unit out of the UK from brickwerks.co.uk - the owner was helpful, responded quickly and the purchase was without the 20% UK VAT which made the thing a lot cheaper. Airmail from the UK is about 5 to 7 days, so quicker than I could have got it from any source in Australia.
Hope this helps - the process is pretty much the same for all Electrolux fridges until they went fully electronic in the 1990s(?).