Customer Questions and Answers for Defrost Control Board by Whirlpool

Hi Jake. Cycle the cold control fully off and then on again and set the control to mid point. Your new updated adaptive defrost control board uses a on/off cycling from the cold control within a period of 6-seconds to initiate forced defrost (Remember this if needed). Look at the electrical connector at thew new board to see if the terminals are correctly placed and fully inserted in the connector plug itself. While pushing on it may have pushed back the wire terminals out of the connector half way... If you need to, remove the power and jump the cold control wires together momentarily to see if the unit now runs. If so you need to replace the cold control part # 61005327. When you removed the upper control assy., did you mistakenly remove the cold control timing gear on top of the controls ? , or has the control levers become mis-timmed ? Look at the top of the defrost gears and the beveled gears on the end of the levers. In the middle of the gears there are straight marks that will help you realign the timing effect. This will effect the on/off of the cold controls. Thank You.