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Re: Anyone know anything about icemakers?
Matt is not referring to the ice maker in a refrigerator, but a stand alone ice maker.
Most of the stand alone ice makers I've seen continuously run water over a freeze plate, which freezes the water into ice, nice clear ice, which leaves mineral deposits behind (like Matt found).
Once frozen to the right thickness, the plate warms, the slab of ice slides off onto a grid like Matt described, the grid heats up, the ice melts down through the grid, where the cubes drop into the bin.
There are other styles too, but typically the home models I've seen are those continuously running (water runs over the plate continuously) models with the freeze plate and cubing grid.
Matt,
I would think that 'not making ice' would be a problem with the refrigeration side. Whereas 'making ice in slabs' would result from the grid being broken and not melting the ice slab into cubes.
Is your ice maker the type which continuously run water over the plate?
Is the plate cold (cold enough to freeze water)?
If the above answers are 'yes', and if you have water running over the plate, you should have ice.
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