Tempermental icemaker

[dperetti]

Recently installed a Lowes replacement icemaker in my Norcold and it was working fine for at least a week until I shut the RV water off to make a toilet repair. Completed repairs, turned the water back, on and now the icemaker decides it doesn't want to work. Power and water supply ok. Any ideas?

[Robi.1014]

Check (with your finger) if there is too much ice in the ice-making tray. Sometimes an out-of-sync operation occurs and too much water is let into that tray. This "too much water" freezes and overwhelms the drive-motor that is supposed to spoon the ice out of the tray. Solution: thaw and remove what is there...and start again.

[LVJ58]

If your're plugged into 110vac, water on and bin bar in the down position and freezer temp -10 or below it should work. Could be a faulty solenoid on the water valve on back side of unit or a loose electrical connection to the solenoid.

Hope you get the problem resolved

[RV Wizard]

You have probably frozen the nozzle up with not enough water pressure (when water was off) and the water cannot get through now. You should be able to verify this by taking the tubing loose from water valve and blow through it. It should be open, if not, it is blocked. Defrosting the nozzle with hair blower should correct the problem. If it happens again replace the water valve as it may be weeping through causing the same problem.

[dperetti]

Thanks all.

[paz]

If you kept the manual that came with the icemaker, there should be troubleshooting steps. Inside the front cover of the icemaker there should be holes that you can stick jumper wires into to check the icemaker operation. If you have a Norcold 1200 Series, you'll have to take the icemaker out to access the front.

[dperetti]

Its up and running now. Apparently when I shut off the water to make other repairs I should have raised the bale to stop the icemaker. It apparently became confused and had to reschedule itself to the proper cycle.

[wa8yxm]

Two possible things that come to mind.. I have the occasional Ice Jam on mine, when this happens the wire "ARM" will not go down all the way... I find the cube that is jamming it up and pull it out it completes it's cycle and returns to service.

Adjusting the size of cube may fix this (larger)

The other is ice build up in the tube that delivers the water to the ice tray, This can happen just from FROST in the freezer,, Soultion is a long defrost.

[LVJ58]

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Originally Posted by dperetti Its up and running now. Apparently when I shut off the water to make other repairs I should have raised the bale to stop the icemaker. It apparently became confused and had to reschedule itself to the proper cycle.

Glad to hear it's up and running OK now