Frigidaire 5303918498 Board-Switch OEM Part

Walk into the kitchen on 21 Sep. Eight year old Frigidaire refrigerator appears to be short cycling, controls are nonfunctional. Unplug it for a few minutes, plug it back in, appears to return to normal function. Return to kitchen half hour 45 minutes later it's short cycling again. Panel has codes on it (S or 5 E CE, later that changes to S or 5 Y CE). Research of codes says replace main board and control board. Not sure where this main board is. 22 Sep call appliance repair. "Soonest we can schedule you is 02 OCT. I'll add you to the wait list in case someone cancels." 28 Sep call appliance repair and have them add replacing refrigerator door gasket to work order. I figure the tech can at least replace the gasket on Monday even if parts are still needed for the rest. Tech will be here after 0900 and before 1300. (Yeah after 30 years 24 hour format isn't habit it's the way it is.) 02 Oct Tech calls at 1230, he'll be here soon. Tech gets here, show him refrigerator. He pops the grill off, pulls the main board (Now I know where it is.) checks all the connections, pops the control board, checks those connections, asks "Has the fan been running?" "Yes when it runs the fan has been running." (For the past week and 1/2 the refrigerator has functioned maybe 3 - 4 hours of 24), Pulls the fan and checks the connections. (Now I know how that comes apart too.) Tech, "Sometimes the fan stops talking to the main board." Me "I searched the codes. What I found recommended changing the main board and the control board." Tech "Could be just the fan.", Me "Replace all three and the door gasket.", Tech looks at door gasket to see that it really needs to be replaced. (I did not roll my eyes.) Tech, "Okay. I'll look up the parts and let you know., Do you want to plug it back in?" Me "No, leave it unplugged. Great! Have a safe afternoon." He was here maybe 45 minutes. Tuesday passes no call. Wednesday, 04 Oct, 0905 call appliance repair. "Your Tech 'Tech's name' was here on Monday. I told him to replace the main board, control board, the fan and the refrigerator door gasket. He was supposed to get back to me with a price." Them "I'll get in touch with him and call you back." Me "Thank you." Appliance repair calls back at 1052. "Parts, service call, labor works out to $625 (there abouts)." Me "That will work, do it.", Them "We'll get the parts ordered and schedule you when they arrive." Me "Great! Thank you very much." Monday, 16 Oct, 1200 Times up. Place order for replacement parts with AppliancePartsPros.com, next day delivery, $625 (there abouts). Tuesday, 17 Oct, 1727 Parts delivered via FedEx. Wednesday, 18 Oct, 1306 sent the following to my bride "Alrighty then. All put back together, cleaned up and more putting back together. Appears to be running normally. Now we'll see if it gets cold." 1502 sent "Me thinks we be making ice." few minutes later heard ice maker dump and sent "Ayup, we be making ice." I will admit that the enclosed with the control board were tough, fine print, must have been a lawyer involved. Searched the interweb and found a full sized PDF. 21 OCT still awaiting call from appliance repair that parts have arrived and they are ready to make repair - NOT. I have been a satisfied AppliancePartsPros.com customer for a bit. Thanks!!

Frig would kick on and off until the code sy ce would show on the door. If I would hear it happening I would open the freezer door for about 30 sec. and close slowly and it would be fine. But if we miss it it would shut down. I ordered switch board and electrical control board.Electrical control board was easy putty knife was only tool needed took about 10 min.. The switch board only tool needed was a 1/4 inch wrench or socket.when you remove the tray under the frig. it is a tight fit but you do not have to jack up or tilt the frig to get it out. You unplug the cables and and the new switch board has new wires to adapt the new board. The only problem with the replacement is getting all the new wires back in the switch board tray this took me about 20-30 min. works great when I first plugged it in it took about 20 sec. to start a little scary but all is well.

I ordered 2 circuit boards, Main board (under fridge) and door circuit board. Either one could have been the reason for the communications error. Didn't want to take a chance and order the wrong one and wait a week for a different board. The problem was the main board. I will keep the door board as a spare. The replacement board was not identical to the original so there were adapter cables that had to be installed. A little tight fitting into the original box but it worked.

The technician first replaced a switch at the compressor, then said compressor was bad & replaced that, all to the tune of $308. I argues with them about the control board & told them where it was. Their response was "There is no board down there". After he finally looked down there & finding the board, suggested I order it!! I ordered both lower & upper boards as you suggested. When they came in, I installed both of them myself & now refrigerator is working fine. I will also add:__I am an 84 year old woman. I will also add, the first board that was sent didn't have both of the wiring harnesses, so you sent another one that did. I will now return the original board that was sent. And will also order from you on any other occasion that I may need, as this was the 2nd time I have ordered from you.

I replaced the main control board (under the fridge) and the panel control board (the touch control on the front door). Previously, a repairman came and only replaced the main control board, which didn't solve the problem. After looking at the comments for the appropriate parts on this website, I learned that you need to replace BOTH parts. I did so, and it worked perfectly. In fact, I had purchased a new fridge, but it was a fraction of an inch too wide, so I ordered these parts overnight before I went and found a different fridge. So as far as I'm concerned Appliance Parts Pros saved me $1000.