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KitchenAid KBRA20ELSS

Model # KBRA20ELSS

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The KBRA20ELSS is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from June 2002 to June 2004 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now roughly twenty years old. No published specification for this model was recovered. Rather than fill the gap with a figure borrowed from a similar-looking number, this page says only what the sources actually carry.

KitchenAid appends a two-digit production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KBRA20ELSS00, KBRA20ELSS01. A plate reading one of those is still a KBRA20ELSS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. At this age the work on a KBRA20ELSS is mostly mechanical and electrical rather than electronic — seals, fans, defrost components, switches and the start device. Those are the parts still in circulation for cabinets of this generation, and they are what we check availability on before any figure is put on a repair.

Key Features

  • No published specification for this model was recovered
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from June 2002 to June 2004
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBRA20ELSS00, KBRA20ELSS01
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

A control reading the cabinet wrongly, so the compressor runs far longer or far shorter than it should

02

Water inlet valve or supply line leaks, where a water feed is plumbed in

03

A start device that has failed, so the compressor hums briefly and drops out on overload

04

A control board aged out of service, the part most worth checking availability on first

Error Codes Common to This Model

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

E1

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E1 Error Code

E2

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E2 Error Code

HI or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center HI or LO Error Code

Over Temp

KitchenAid Undercounter Wine Cellar Over Temp Alert

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBRA20ELSS FAQ

Inside the refrigerator, on the left wall is where KitchenAid says the label is, and that holds for the KBRA20ELSS. The adhesive label there gives model and serial. Copying the KBRA20ELSS string character by character is worth the extra minute, since one letter separates several different cabinets.

The KBRA20ELSS is out of production, and whether repair beats replacement comes down to which component has gone. A seal, a fan or a control is usually straightforward economics; a sealed-system failure on a KBRA20ELSS of this age rarely is, and we will tell you so.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, brushing and vacuuming the condenser coils on a KBRA20ELSS is reasonable owner maintenance and occasionally clears a poor-cooling complaint on its own. If the KBRA20ELSS has not recovered its temperature within a day of that, the fault lies elsewhere and is worth looking at properly.

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