Troubleshooting a Refrigerator Ice Maker

Troubleshooting a Refrigerator Ice Maker
Make sure someone did not turn it off, before you assume it is broken. It is turned on. Then make sure the water hose isn’t disconnected, because it won’t do much more than keep the current bucket of ice cold if it can’t get water to make more ice. I cannot see how that got disconnected. Maybe the water hose is connected but the water in it froze, so it can’t get more water to the unit to make more ice. I thought the freezer had a defroster in it.
The defroster may not be working, which means the ice is building up. That I’d know for sure. Or the ice in the tube is so thick it can’t get melted by the freezer defrosting heater; after all, it is only going to melt ice on the bottom of most freezers. It still sounds weird to say the heater in the freezer. Remember that if the freezer heater is stuck on, the ice maker will work but all the ice coming out may not be frozen solid, and the ice on the bottom of the bin if not on an upper shelf will be a slush. True. What else could I do?
If the ice maker isn’t making as much ice as you think it should and the fridge looks like it has a leak, the likely problem is a water leak in the water tube to the ice maker. So the lack of ice is due to the flooding in the bottom of the fridge. It could turn the vegetable crisper into a bin of vegetable soup, create a water puddle on the floor or simply lead to a full pan of water under the fridge, depending on where it leaks and how fast.
I have had some water in the fridge. If the water is in the fridge, make sure the fridge and ice maker are level, or else it may be spilling over. If the water is outside the fridge, check the hose coming in and out of the water inlet valve. This becomes a good time to wish I could find the user manual, so I could find where that is. What if there isn’t a water leak? What else could cause it not to make ice?
There’s a small door that controls the dispenser. That’s the ice shoot. It is intended to keep the ice cold by limiting the time the door is open and warm air gets inside. If the damper door is dirty or misshapen, the door may not seal right and let warmer air in. That wouldn’t be as bad as a freezer heater staying on, but it would lead to frost instead of ice coming out.

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