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Posted by Sanity on January 16, 2008, 4:27 pm
>
>> GROVER wrote:
>>> On Jan 16, 2:50 pm, "Charlie Bress" <Here-I-am-at-the-last-moment.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The refrigerator is an Amana BX22TW.
>>>> The problem is associated with the icemaker.
>>>>
>>>> We opened the freezer door and found a lot of heavy frost that was in
>>>> the
>>>> 1/2 of the freezer that holds the icemaker.
>>>> Most of this was almost fluffy. It was in the ice tray and on top of
>>>> the ice
>>>> that was in there.
>>>> It was also on the back wall of the freezer and it coated frozen
>>>> packages
>>>> that are in that part of the freezer.
>>>> There was a little hard ice that had formed on the lip of the ice
>>>> container.
>>>> The first thing I did was to shut off the water supply at an eternal
>>>> filter
>>>> and raise the arm to the off position.
>>>>
>>>> It is not a case of the water just overflowing. The ice in the
>>>> container was
>>>> not frozen together as if water had been running into the cubes that
>>>> were
>>>> already there . Some of the cubes were stuck slightly stuck together
>>>> but no
>>>> more solidly than what happens sometimes just from the defrost cycle.
>>>> the
>>>> ice is clearing up by itself either due to the defrost cycle or just
>>>> sublimation.
>>>>
>>>> I have not tried to turn the water on again yet. What is the most
>>>> likely
>>>> cause of this? I don't want to start shotgunning a repair/replacement.
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> There may be other causes, but I had a similar problem and it turned
>>> out to be caused by the refrigerator door not closing tightly. Check
>>> that there's nothing in the way of the door and check the door
>>> gasket.
>>>
>>> Joe G
>>
>> I'd agree. My mother tends to stuff her freezer to the max and beyond and
>> one time (probably many more than I've witnessed) she managed to load it
>> so that the freezer door wouldn't quite close. The inside looked pretty
>> much as the OP described with most of the freezer contents covered in a
>> thick coat of fluffy ice crystals. This could be a matter of a bad seal
>> or a door simply not closed tightly enough.
>>
>> --
>> John McGaw
>> [Knoxville, TN, USA]
>> http://johnmcgaw.com
>
> except it could be the defrost timer went out, like on mine.
>
On my GE I had a similar problem. Frost on the packages and cubes, drips on
the shelves. GE first said that the door wasn't closed. Second time they
replaced a soleniod for the icemaker. Third time they sent a technician ( a
real one). He hooked his laptop to the fridge and took readings. Seems the
freezer was warming 15 degrees too much during the defrost cycle. Turned out
he have to return the printed circuit board and now all is fine.
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