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...