The 84 E stands for a locked rotor. There is a small control board on the back of the refrigerator it's called an inverter control board. Since Samsung uses a DC three speed compressor they use an inverter board to change the voltage to the compressor. When the rotor locks up the amp draw goes way up and the inverter control board senses this and will throw the error code 84 E on the front of the digital display.
This is actually a very bad error code on these refrigerators. It means the rotor is locked up inside the compressor and the only way to solve this issue is to actually replace the compressor. Unfortunately this means a basic rebuild of the sealed system of the refrigerator. It's a pretty big job to do this. You not only need special tools you also need a special license to recover the freon from the refrigerators sealed system.
I have however been able to solve this problem twice out of the 7 or 8 times I've seen this error by simply replacing the inverter control board on the back of the unit by the compressor. The inverter board on the back is usually flashing four times which means again locked rotor.
Fortunately for every one of these that I've seen they have been covered under first year warranty. Now I know that doesn't say a lot for Samsung but remember no matter which brand appliance you buy it will have issues eventually. Things just aren't made like they used to be. I hear it everyday my old refrigerator lasted 2o years.. You'll never buy another one that last that long..
I my refrigerator have de 84E error what i should do?
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