The short answer for the UF models
On the Accucold UF refrigerator models, an ice supply that has stopped or gone wrong still leads to the same place as the brand-generic article: whether the cabinet has an automatic ice maker at all. What changes here is what sits behind it — the bin, the auger or the chute comes up to second, because this family is one model rather than a range, so the ranking can be specific where a brand-wide one has to hedge.
What you observe on these models
- Cubes are hollow, small or half formed — Water is arriving but not enough of it, or not for long enough.
- The cubes have fused into one solid block in the bin — They melted slightly and refroze, which means the compartment is drifting warm and then recovering.
- Ice tastes or smells of the freezer — Old ice picks up whatever else is in the compartment; that is a storage problem, not a production one.
- NEAR MISS — there is water on the floor as well as no ice — A supply fitting that is leaking is a water-leak page problem first.
Causes, most likely first on the UF family
- Whether the cabinet has an automatic ice maker at all — A great many compact cabinets freeze ice in a tray inside a small freezer compartment that shares its air with the fresh-food side. Ranked first on the UF models.
- The bin, the auger or the chute — Ice made and not delivered looks exactly like ice never made, right up until you take the bin out and look in it. Second.
- A door that is not sealing — Warm humid air reaching the ice compartment frosts the mould and the chute and stops the harvest before anything else has a chance to go wrong. Third.
- The fill valve itself — A valve that no longer opens, or one that no longer closes and so overfills. Last, and that is the point of the order.
- Body: The spine for the UF family records a single model code, so there is no variation inside this family to hedge against: what is written here applies to the whole of it. Where this departs from the brand-generic ordering: the cause that moves up to second on these models is this one — the bin, the auger or the chute — while the brand-generic lead keeps the top.
Check in this order on the UF models, and why
- Establish first whether the cabinet has an automatic ice maker at all — First: Look for a fill tube and a shut-off arm.
- Measure the freezer temperature with a thermometer, not by feel — Second: A freezer holds food safely at 0 degrees Fahrenheit, which is minus 18 degrees Celsius, or below, and an ice maker needs that too.
- Look at the shut-off arm and the on switch — Third: The temperature reading takes hours to set up and this takes seconds, so do it while the thermometer sits.
Before you open anything
Safety
Nothing comes off this cabinet until it is unplugged or its breaker is off — the capacitor holds a charge past the switch and the fan has no warning before it starts. The sealed side is licensed work, not owner work. Deal with the food first: a refrigerator holds it safely at 40 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 4 degrees Celsius, or below, and a freezer at 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
Models covered by the UF family
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| UF877L | accucold:refrigerator:uf |
When to call a technician
Call once the freezer is measurably cold enough, the arm is down, the line is clear and the bin is empty and there is still no ice — at that point the fault is in the module, the mould heater or the fill valve, all of which need a meter behind a panel. Call sooner if you find water dripping from the supply fitting, because a slow leak behind a cabinet damages the floor long before anybody notices it. On the UF models the line sits where the check stops being one you can make from outside the cabinet. Where the contents are temperature-critical, call earlier than this list suggests and move the load first — the diagnosis can wait, the contents usually cannot.
Other symptoms covered for the UF family
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