The unit is the built-in ice-through-the-door unit in a GE side by side . The problem is ice chunks from water seeping in OR the ice mold overfilling . The big hunks break the plastic auger and make ice delivery unreliable . I replaced that water valve unit a year or so back and the problem existed before that - the auger was already broken . So I'm thinking that the ice mold is overfilling , not by much but just maybe a few drops per cycle . Oh OK , easy fix he thinks , but NO ! I can't find any means to adjust the fill amount like the older units had . Just pop the cover off and twist a screw , but this one is made different . Refr model is GSH25SGRE SS , icemaker unit WRX30X10093
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Feb 22, 2021
Last reply: 5 years ago
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Anything here?
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Actually there are no adjustment videos , just replacements . I might pull it out just to check it out more thoroughly .
How do these things typically control the fill amount? Just by time? Then you'd think they would need a pressure regulator so that a unit on a line with 30 PSI doesn't get too little and a line with 70 PSI gets too much. Do they have such a thing?
I have no idea how they do it. However if you have a certain size hole or pipe it reaches a point where no matter how much the pressure goes up the flow will not. They may use a system similar to that.
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:11:36 -0600, Snag posted for all of us to digest...
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I can't say about any other brand but Whirlpool (Kenmore, Amana etc) simply use time. There is a contact in the head (the brown plastic end) It makes as the timer gear goes through the harvest, refill cycle. There is a screw sticking out that moves the contact to change the closed time. Part of the initial setup is to adjust it for your water pressure. There is no pressure regulator, just a solenoid valve.
I have not yet found that screw on this unit ... I will be pulling it out for a closer look in a few days when the new auger arrives . The last few inches of the plastic vane is broken from the auger , I think probably from big chunks of ice getting caught in it . I don't want to break the new one the same way .
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