Before Using Your Icemaker and Dispenser
Ice access door
Icemaker
If you use your refrigerator before the water
connection is made, raise the ice access door and
make sure the icemaker feeler arm is in the STOP (up)
position as shown below.
Feeler arm
in
STOP (up)
position
When water supply has been connected to icemaker,
move feeler arm to ON (down) position.
Feeler arm
in ON
(down)
position
Depress water dispenser cradle for about two minutes
to remove trapped air from the water line and to fill
water reservoir automatically.
Ice cube mold automatically fills with water after
cooling to freezing temperatures. First cubes normally
freeze after several hours.
NOTE: With a newly-installed refrigerator, allow
about 24 hours for the freezer compartment to cool
down to
proper ice-making temperature.
Once Your Icemaker and
Are in Operation
Throw away the first few batches of ice cubes
(16 or 24 cubes). This will flush away any impurities
in the
water line. Do the same thing after vacations or
circumstances,
extended periods when ice isn’t used.
be discolored,
green-
Discard
the first six
of water in the
kitchen sink. This will eliminate the slight “plastic”
a
taste temporarily imparted to the water by the water
as
of
reservoir.
plumbing
Keep
to keep icemaker productive. Cubes
accumulation
inactive
water
finds the
Continued
ejected into an empty storage bin will pile up close to
cubes may be
the icemaker and push the feeler arm up to the STOP
injurious
discoloration is
position prematurely when the bin is only partially
observed, discard
cubes
your
full. Open the ice access door, reach in, level the cubes
GE
Factory
by
hand and
will resume. Keeping cubes
Customer
Servicer.
distributed evenly
the icemaker to produce
enough ice to fill the bin to its maximum capacity.
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