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Moderator Post (s) for this thread: > Inspect it? by DanO on 07/23/2008 > Defrost water? by DanO on 07/23/2008

** I hear a crackling noise which sounds like frozen ice that slides off of a surface and hits the floor. Then later I see the water. **

Any ice that forms would be *inside* the appliance. I don't know how it would get *outside* to end up of the floor.

The crackling you hear could be the normal sounds of defrosting occurring (see the following link).

- My new refrigerator is making strange sounds. What is wrong with it?
LINK > www.appliance411.com/links/jump.cgi?ID=768


** Could it simply be ice that forms from behind the freezer panel that somehow slides down and melts? **

"Ice" should not form anywhere inside the freezer besides where water was left standing like in an ice cube tray, etc.. "Frost" will normally develop on the evaporator (cooling) coil and periodically be melted by the defrost system (see the following link).

- How does a frost free refrigerator's defrost system work?
LINK > www.appliance411.com/links/jump.cgi?ID=658

That defrost water is then funnelled to the moistural pan under the fridge where it evaporates.

JFYI

Dan O.
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