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brandss · 01-05-2019, 04:06 PM

It has been working fine at our campsite for the last few months and then we left for a trip this past Wednesday. We dry camped for 3 days and it stopped producing ice. We had full water tank and 40% by the time we got home.

Did it stop producing ice because we never hooked up to a water supply? We had the water pump on the entire time so I would think it would pull water to produce ice as needed.

One last thing, our Maytag has the two doors above for the fridge and the single pull out freezer below. Wonder if anyone can tell me how to pull the ice maker out of the fridge (not the drawer that holds the ice). I couldn't find anything in the manual.

Sorry for the picture, for the life of me i can't figure out how to make them appear in the right position.

wildmanbaker · 01-05-2019, 04:17 PM

Your ice maker needs 120 volts AC to work.

RayChez1 · 01-05-2019, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by wildmanbaker

Your ice maker needs 120 volts AC to work.

That is what an inverter does? If he had the inverter on it should have worked.

RayChez1 · 01-05-2019, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by brandss

It has been working fine at our campsite for the last few months and then we left for a trip this past Wednesday. We dry camped for 3 days and it stopped producing ice. We had full water tank and 40% by the time we got home.

Did it stop producing ice because we never hooked up to a water supply? We had the water pump on the entire time so I would think it would pull water to produce ice as needed.

One last thing, our Maytag has the two doors above for the fridge and the single pull out freezer below. Wonder if anyone can tell me how to pull the ice maker out of the fridge (not the drawer that holds the ice). I couldn't find anything in the manual.

Sorry for the picture, for the life of me i can't figure out how to make them appear in the right position.

A Maytag? Is that a residential type refrigerator? If so and you are dry camping you need to have the inverter on to convert DC to AC power.

Jcharters · 01-05-2019, 07:57 PM

If he did not have 120 volts, the refrigerator would not be working either. The ice maker looks just like my residential refrigerator. I have had problems with it making ice. Some times it just quits making ice for up to a week.

Ilvmygt · 01-05-2019, 08:14 PM

Our residential refrigerator Ice Maker water port got plugged with ice and had to be defrosted. Turned off the refrigerator and defrosted it, once the water port was cleared it started making ice again.

Topworth · 01-05-2019, 08:33 PM

I have this issue sometimes, Frigidaire, first clue for me was low water pressure from fridge, I think its a combination of a older slightly clogged filter and lower pressure from using tank.

wildmanbaker · 01-06-2019, 11:43 AM

The ice makers are fairly generic throughout the manufactures, except for the 3 and 4 door models. Even in the RV refrig. they use the same ice makers.

**Lt Dan** · 01-06-2019, 03:56 PM

I just had to replace the ice maker in our Maytag that looks exactly like yours. It acted the same as yours, working one day and all of a sudden quit. Here is a step by step video on how to remove the ice maker assembly and change out the main unit inside. I followed this and changed ours out with no problem. It will probably require a new inside unit which costs around $240. Almost any appliance parts supplier will have the ice maker, or you can pull it out and get the part number off it and order on Amazon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEohnX1EUY

brandss · 01-07-2019, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Ilvmygt

Our residential refrigerator Ice Maker water port got plugged with ice and had to be defrosted. Turned off the refrigerator and defrosted it, once the water port was cleared it started making ice again.

Thanks so much for everyone taking the time to reply to my question. I especially am thankful for the above post because that solved my problem perfectly. I held my wifes hairdryer in the ice maker area for 5 - 10 minutes until I didn't see any more drips of water. Turned it back on and to my hard of hearing ears Ice was dropping in a few hours.

For those that may read this thread I think what happened is when we left for our trip and boon docked for two days, even though I set up the energy management system for the auto gen start, it didn't work correctly because we manually turned on the genny to use the microwave and didn't realize I had to go back in and reset the ems. Thanks again for the responses.

brandss · 01-07-2019, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Lt Dan

I just had to replace the ice maker in our Maytag that looks exactly like yours. It acted the same as yours, working one day and all of a sudden quit. Here is a step by step video on how to remove the ice maker assembly and change out the main unit inside. I followed this and changed ours out with no problem. It will probably require a new inside unit which costs around $240. Almost any appliance parts supplier will have the ice maker, or you can pull it out and get the part number off it and order on Amazon.