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[LG refrigerator - noise] Sometimes a gulping or whooshing sound comes from the refrigerator.

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Do you sometimes hear a gulping or whooshing sound from your refrigerator?

➔ Cold air flows through the evaporator inside the refrigerator, and at this time, frost forms around the evaporator.

In this case, ice forms around the evaporator of the refrigerator, and in order to melt this ice, a heater runs once or twice a day.
In the course of melting ice around the evaporator of the refrigerator using the heater, water drops fall on the heater creating gulping or whooshing noises for around 15 minutes once to twice a day.
The gulping sound occurs when the refrigerant is circulating, while the whooshing sound occurs during defrosting of the evaporator.
As these sounds are caused by normal operation of the machine, don’t worry and continue to run your refrigerator.

Sound from defrosting evaporator inside freezer

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