Electrolux bullet style ice maker in french door

[krazytech]

Electrolux EW23BC71IS Refrigerator.

little or no ice... have anyone have trouble with the new 1.1 or 8.1 ice boards... the 8.0 was the worst yet...

[PARTech]

No trouble with the 8.1 yet....  very spread out customer base though, I've only installed 3 with the 8.1.....

[schaffersapplian]

I got a 8.1 going into a machine tomorrow, along with some weather striping

[PARTech]

I have yet to have the weather stripping work (that they send) I fixing to take a whole roll from the hardware store and do the entire enclosure, not just where the light shines through.  I think doing the little short section they send seems to make the rest of it push further away.

[krazytech]

Are you getting frost build-up..
I to use a weather stripping 3m 3/8 in

8.1 has been a good board so far for  me... I did see the New 1.1 that is in the 2011 factory machines... I think it is the same as 8.1

1) software problem (upgrades to 8.1.. really 8.19)
2) air leaks from the ice box trim ( fixed with weather stripping)
3) mold heater or thermistor out of range
4) bail arm stripped gears
5) Thermistor th3 error ( out of range thermistor/ bad connection on right side of ice maker ..low voltage plug
6) damaged fingers evaporator hammered flat sealed system leak.

[PARTech]

Not frost, one machine that gets ice sheets in the bottom of the ice box.  I'm going to redo the weaterstripping on the entire icebox and the defrost heater (that looks more like an oven probe) on the bottom of the small evap coil.  I have seen everything except the damaged evap fingers on one machine or another, 9 machines total in my very sparce population, but only did version 8.1 on the last three (two of those were to replace version 8.0 software).

[krazytech]

the 8.19 board will keep trying to work if it runs into a fault.. the 8.0 will stop when it comes across a fault until the ice maker is turned off at the control..

Ice sheets at the bottom of the box are likely for a spill fill of the mold caused from ice ball on the wall of the ice. the mold can not get all the way back to the fill position ... or water it misdirected from the fill funnel. 

[krazytech]

BTW is your defrost heater open? 

the sheets of ice are signs that the defrost heat is melting the ice and refreezing?

[PARTech]

Haven't checked the defrost heater yet, (diagnostics were good, but like I really trust them all the way?) was a thought I had after leaving the customer's, but there was no ice ball to stop the swing of the mold...  or to twist it out of the way of the funnel.....   No restrictions on the pins front or back to stop the swing...  Air leak is the only thing I can come up with as a possiblity but I would like to see some frost to confirm that!

[krazytech]

It is never a bad idea to check bring extra parts with you...Air leaks, That I have seen have shaggy frost on the top... Sheet ice alway comes from water spills or plugged drain (water refreezing) Let me know if you have an open defrost heater? I have not heard of one yet...

BTW have you see freezing in the back be the crispers and or installed the air scoop to keep it from freezing?

[PARTech]

I have not seen that one, but I did have one that froze the water supply lines to the filter next to the crisper, crisper never froze, neither did the filter, just the supply lines right where they came through the back wall.  Never did get a solution to that one, they were supposed to haul it back to the home office/factory for diag and let me know....

[PARTech]

Just as an update, defrost heater was good, re-sealing the ice-room seemed to have solved part of the problem and there was no ice sheet in the bottom, but was not making ice either.  Ended up being a bad connection on the re-circ valve.  Just enough to work for one or two days, then quit for one or two...  I just love  intermittent problems...

[krazytech]

re-sealing stop wet ice or melting ice problem?

was your bad connection right at the valve? or at the left side wall connection?

I have a New(customer) one that stopped for a few days then the customer. Customer turn it off then back on again... Now it works..? and this is the new 1.1 board with all the new tests..

[PARTech]

It was the connector to the valve, I know I had pushed on it before, but until I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it was always intermittent.

[krazytech]

So did you have to pull the whole assembly down to get to it? or just remove the cover