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On the Arctic Wind ASBS refrigerator family an ice maker that has stopped is far more often a water-supply or a temperature problem than a failed ice maker. The roster here is one base number, ASBS19, carried twice in the parts data, and on cabinets built this way the ice maker only runs once the freezer compartment is genuinely cold, so a freezer sitting a little warm will produce exactly this complaint with nothing broken at all.
The observable signs
- No ice at all and the bin is dry — No water is arriving. The supply, the shut-off arm and the fill valve are all upstream of the ice maker itself and all cheaper.
- A thin sheet of ice under the bin — Water is entering when it should not, or the fill tube is dribbling after the valve closes. It tends to arrive with a leak complaint as well.
- NEAR MISS - no ice and the whole cabinet is warm — That is a cooling fault, and the ice maker stopping is a symptom of it. Read the cooling page for this family.
Causes, most likely first on this roster
- Shut-off arm or bin sensor reading full — At the top because it is the only cause on this page that can be created accidentally by putting the shopping away, which makes it both the commonest and the least suspected.
- Freezer compartment running too warm to make ice — Ranked high on this roster because the ice maker is gated on compartment temperature: it will not run a harvest until the mould is cold enough. That makes a marginal freezer a silent ice fault.
- Household water supply, saddle valve or filter restriction — Ranked here because it explains the whole undersized-and-hollow family of symptoms, and because it is checkable without touching the appliance. If production fell after a filter change or after the unit was moved, start here.
- Ice maker module, motor or thermostat failed — Bottom of the ranking deliberately. Replacing the module is the most expensive answer on the page and it is the one most often bought before the free checks have been done.
- Body: The order here follows the water and the temperature, not the parts catalogue. On the ASBS roster everything above the module is cheaper to test than the module is to buy, which is the entire argument for working down rather than in.
Work through this in order
- Trace the supply line to its shut-off — Confirm the valve is fully open and the line is not crimped where the cabinet was pushed back into place.
- Look for a sheet of ice under the bin or in the fill tube — Ice below the bin means water is arriving when it should not, which points at the valve or the tube rather than the module.
- Body: This sequence is set by cost of access. Everything checkable with the bin out comes before anything that needs the unit pulled away from the wall, and the ice maker module itself comes last of all.
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Safety
Switch the unit off at the breaker or unplug it before removing the module, and close the water shut-off first. A capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. If water has reached anything electrical inside the cabinet, stop and call - do not power the appliance back up to test it.
Models in the ASBS family — Every listing this page generalizes over. Check the number on your rating plate against it before ordering a part. A starred entry in the table is the same base number recorded a second way in the parts data; treat it as the same platform for this fault unless your own parts diagram says otherwise.
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| ASBS*19 | arctic-wind:refrigerator:asbs |
| ASBS19 | arctic-wind:refrigerator:asbs |
Where the owner line is
Stop when the next step needs the water line opened or the freezer liner disturbed. On the ASBS listings both are true past the free checks. Call urgently if ice production stopped at the same time as the cabinet started warming, because the ice maker is then a symptom and not the fault.
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