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Maytag Refrigerator Ice Maker Frozen

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  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 16,694

    sounds like it is using a serial bus control instead of discrete wiring to each device when when the ice maker control got rebooted when the power went off the main control didn't send a command to turn it off. maybe the power was out long enough for the ice maker control to reboot but not the main control or the control panel or wherever the setting is stored.

  • SteamingatMohawk
    SteamingatMohawk Member Posts: 1,129

    @mattmia2 If the icemaker did do what you suggest ( I don't dispute your assertion) might it do more than one load or one and done? Pure guesswork.

    @ChrisJ Maytag/Whirlpool branded ones or any others? Might you have any info I can use to track it down?

  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 16,694

    i suspect it would keep going. maybe unplug it for a few minutes then plug it back in for everything to reboot normally.

  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 17,357
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1892109#Comment_1892109

    Other brands, I don't remember specifically but I know it wasn't Whirlpool.

    Single pipe 392sqft system with an EG-40 rated for 325sqft and it's silent and balanced at all times.

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 20,155

    When my brother renovated his kitchen about 10 years ago he went to a local appliance store and bought all new Maytag stuff. Refrigerator, dishwasher, stove and over the stove microwave.

    All of them are junk the only one running with no issue is the refrigerator.

    The DW wouldn't run so he threw the parts cannon at it and bought a new board which cost a lot.

    DW still will not run.

    But if he leaves the power to it turned on about once a week in the middle of the night the DW will start up and run

  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 16,694
    edited March 18

    whirlpool has bought up a lot of its competitors. it has a lot of different designs to choose from, you have to choose carefully to get the whirlpool designed stuff.

    i'd imagine sears imploding has done a lot of weird things to its business model too since I think it sold far more stuff as kenmore branded than whirlepool/kitchenaid/maytag branded.

  • SteamingatMohawk
    SteamingatMohawk Member Posts: 1,129

    I did some searching on the internet and found a non-brand specific comment in an AI posting that the outage probably caused the refrigerator to do a factory reset and the icemaker would then cycle once then shut off if the switch was "OFF". I never experienced an outage with the icemaker "OFF", so presumably with the bin full, there would be no call for ice to be made. It seems to make sense.

    The only "good" thing was there was only a small amount of water after the first cycle, and none after the second. So, who knows what reality is relative to my water problem in the bin.

    And the beat goes on!

  • SteamingatMohawk
    SteamingatMohawk Member Posts: 1,129

    Maybe that's why the mysterious dishwasher thing mentioned above happened, too.

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