re: PAGING NAPOLEAN LG refrigerator stop working UPDATE

Effective protection means everything (dishwasher, clocks, central air, dimmer switches, microwave, GFCIs, garage door opener, furnace, LED & CFL bulbs, smoke detectors) is protected. Worse, no plug-in protetor claims effective protection. Anyone can read specification numbers. Most do not and make a recommendation anyway.

A plug-in protector can cost $20 or $90. One properly earthed 'whole house' solution (that protects everything) costs about $1 per appliance. Tens of times less money. And with numbers that actually define protection.

Worse, a plug-in protector can even make nearby appliance damage easier; compromise (bypass) what is better protection inside electronics.

Safety ground does nothing to protect any appliance and does not make any plug-in protector effective. Wall receptacle safety ground is not earth ground.

Only assumed is what caused electronics failure. Why not only a fuse? Or the most common reason for failure - manufacturing defect? Long before blaming electronics, well, why were all those other unprotected appliances also undamaged?

Maybe a homeowner all but invited a surge inside. So it went hunting for a best connection to earth. Once inside, then nothing can protect from a typically destructive surge. Protection always means earthing it outside so that a surge is not inside.

What is protecting all those other appliances?

LG has some crazy features.

Before you call a tech, hold the top fridge and the top freezer buttons until the display changes.

They go into showroom or power failure modes and you have to get them out.

What did you do to avert future failures?

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This fridge is 5/6 yrs. old and has been though several power surges.

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If several transients that exceeded 1000 volts existed, then how many other appliances were damaged?

A blackout (outage) is not a surge. However advertising promotes that myth to sell plug-in protectors. If a surge existed, then other surge destroyed appliances are listed. What protected the dishwasher, GFCIs, clocks, and so many less robust appliances?

Your symptoms are more consistent with a more common reason for failure - manufacturing defect. To say more means a failed motherboard part must be defined. A dead body is always best evidence.

Meanwhile, if a properly earthed 'whole house' protector does not exist, then you have all but invited surges to come inside. To threaten central air, dimmer switches, microwave, GFCIs, garage door opener, furnace, LED & CFL bulbs, and smoke detectors.

Only a manufacturer can prevent manufacturing defects. Only a 'whole house' solution (properly earthed) is effective protection from something that occurs maybe once every seven years (surge). To even make surge damage easier, then use an adjacent power strip protector.