Worthless info from seajay about your ice maker thingie .

[Seajay]

NOTE.... this is a re print from another posting on another forum

Here is a bit of information that I got the ''hard way.''

We have a 2000 Pace Arrow 'A' class. It has the side by side refrigerator with the built in ice maker. This is very handy because if you plug into shore power it will ''make ice''. (really handy for certain beverages if you dont add too much water). Anyhow,,,,, Willa noticed that our ice maker had stopped making ice. Hummmm ... I checked everything I could find and all seemed to be in order. Hummmmmmmmm ... Willa also noticed that there was a ''wet spot'' on the floor in front of the refrigerator.

I said ''Shux'' and started looking for a water line leak. Hummmmmmm I could not find a leak anywhere. I said ''Shux'' again. Some time later we noticed another ''wet spot'' on the floor right in front of the refrigerator freezer door again. It only got 'wet there'' when we were on shore power with the ice maker on. (it still wasnt producing ice cubes) Hummmmmmm I said ''Shux'' again and looked for a leak in a water line.

Willa suggested that the ''wet spot'' could be associated with the ice maker in some fashion and I told her how silly it was to think that the ''Wet spot'' came from the now inoperable ice maker.

By a process of elimination I turned on the ice maker and VOILAAAAAAAAAA. A WET SPOT APPEARED gosh I Am so ''snart." I went outside and took the back of the refrigerator and, to my surprise, there was a plastic tube about the thickness of a soda straw going up the back of the unit. This ''tube'' was split about 6 inches from the opening in the floor where it came thru. When the ice maker made a ''demand'' for water, an electric valve opens and allows water to flow to the tray or on to the floor as the case may be.

Needless to say our hardwood floor got wet underneath and we had a ''water stain'' in the flooring which prompted Willa to suggest that we needed to replace the carpet and the hardwood flooring in the coach because the ''wet spot''' had just ruined the appearance of our nine year old coach and she simply could not stand for our friends to come in the coach and see ''That
Ugly Old Water Stain'' on our floor.

Three thousand dollars later we have all hardwood floors in the coach and I did not replace the ''soda straw thick'' water line from the electric valve up to the ice maker. We now have 4 ice trays and we make our ice the ''hard way."

Moral of the story:
If you have an icemaker on your coach and you dont want to spend about three grand for all hardwood flooring ... keep an eye on the ''plastic tube'' and if it breaks turn off your ice maker.
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND BRING THEM HOME SAFE AND SOON
GOD BLESS OUR VETS FOR THEIR SERVICE TO THIS GREAT NATION.
If you use this valuable information you must pay me ten cents the next time you see me ....... Consider this.... this info costed me three grand.. you are getting a real bargin.........

Seajay the sailor man........................

[wa8yxm]

IT is often easy to replace that water line.. In fact if you have at least 3 inches ABOVE the split which you can access, then I have everything you need to replace it as I just replaced the solenoid on mine and they included the very parts you need in the kit.. I did not need those parts in my install.

NOTE: the standard solenoid used for RV ice makers is a straight solenoid valve, quarter inch compression fitting in, quarter inch compression fitting out

You can also get solenoid valves that have a second "Chamber" in front of the vavle.. I suspect (But for some idiotic reason did not dissassemble my old one) that this is a pressure regulator

Now.. Assume that, like many, you do not regulate water pressure, so you set yours up on the pump, 45PSI, and then hook up to an 80 PSI park water hydrant

You are going to overflow your ice tray

How much nicer if you used a solenoid that regulated to say 25PSI, then once you set it, it stays set, no matter the park pressure.

I had to replace mine.. Local parts store wanted 140,, Camping world 120, The Internet store where I got a genuine AMANA 2-stage (Regulator/valve I suspect) unit wanted 15.95 plus 7 S&H... Works great.

[85Eagle]

Replace the plastic tube with copper and your problems are over. My Dometic had the plastic with a heater wire running along with it to prevent it from freezing in the winter and the heat made the plastic brittle and it just fell apart.