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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
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proper ice-making temperature.
Once Your Icemaker and Dispemer Are in Operation
Throw away the first few batches of ice cubes
(16 or 24 cubes). This will flush away any impurities
caution:
in the water line. Do the same thing after vacations or
Under
certain
rme
circumstances,
ice
cubes
may
extended periods when ice isn’t used.
be discolored,
usuaJly
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witi
a
green-
Discard
the first six glassfuls of water in the
bluish
color.
The cause
ofdds
musuaJ
kitchen sink. This will eliminate the slight “plastic”
discoloratiort
is
appm~tiy
due
go
a
combtiation
taste temporarily imparted to the water by the water
of
factors such as
wtin
aharaeteristics
of
loeaJ
reservoir.
waters,
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plumbing @d
tie
Keep ice
leveJ
to keep icemaker productive. Cubes
accumulation
of
copper
salts
in,m
inactive
water
supply
Iin&
which
finds the icemker. Continued
ejected into an empty storage bin will pile up close to
consumption of such di*oJored
i=
cubes may be
the icemaker and push the feeler arm up to the STOP
injurious
to
hed~.
If
such
discoloration is
position prematurely when the bin is only partially observed, discard
the
i~
cubes
md
contact your
full. Open the ice access door, reach in, level the cubes
GE
Factory
Serviw
Center
or
an
authorized
by hand and
icemaking
will resume. Keeping cubes
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Servicer.
distributed evenly
will
allow
the icemaker to produce
enough ice to fill the bin to its maximum capacity.
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