The short answer
Before anything else on an AWBC cabinet, settle whether your number makes ice automatically at all, because the table covers a family rather than one machine. A beverage centre chills; ice inside one is usually the fault rather than the function.
What you observe on these models
- Cans and bottles freezing on the bottom shelf — The complaint is usually too much cold rather than too little ice.
- Cubes are smaller than they used to be — A short fill on a plumbed cabinet; a warmer compartment on one that is not.
- A sheet of frost on the rear wall inside the cabinet — That is the real fault on a beverage cabinet, and it points at the control or the seal.
- NEAR MISS — plenty of ice but the cabinet is warm elsewhere — Read the cooling page for this family first; ice is a symptom there, not the fault.
Causes, most likely first on the AWBC family
- This is a beverage cabinet, not an ice cabinet — First on this platform: a glass-door beverage centre chills; unless your number is a plumbed ice-making one, there is no ice maker in it to fail and cans of frozen drink are the fault to look for instead.
- Ice forming where it should not, on the rear wall or the floor — Second, and this is the real complaint behind many ice questions on this platform: a cabinet set too low, or with a seal leaking humid air, grows a frost sheet on the back wall.
- The tray or mould itself — Third: a deep plastic tray insulates its own contents, and a tray standing on a shelf rather than on a cold surface takes much longer than one in contact with it.
- The compartment packed too full to move air — Fourth: ice forms last in a compartment that cannot circulate, so a freezer packed solid produces ice slowly even while everything in it stays frozen.
- Recent restocking with warm items — Last: a load of warm shopping pulls the compartment up for hours, and ice production is the first thing to stop and the last to resume.
Check in this order, and why that order
- Decide what you are actually asking of the cabinet — A beverage centre chills drinks.
- Look at the back wall of the cabinet for frost — Frost forming inside is the real fault on this platform and it points at the control or the seal.
- Change the set point and watch whether anything responds — A cabinet that ignores its control has a control or sensor fault and that is a technician visit.
- Follow the water line from the shut-off to the cabinet — A built-in is pushed back into its opening, and that is exactly where a line gets crushed.
Before you open anything
Safety
Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before removing any panel. A capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. On this platform there is no check worth doing that cannot wait the thirty seconds it takes to isolate the machine properly.
Models in the AWBC family — The numbers this page covers.
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| AWBC15PGA2A | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC15PSA2A | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC15SGA2A | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC241GGFD | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC242PRG | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC242PRG** | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC242PRS | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC242PRS** | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC242SG | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC242SG** | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC24PGA2A | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC24PSA2A | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
| AWBC24SGA2A | avallon:refrigerator:awbc |
When to call a technician
Checking a supply valve, a fill tube, an arm and a compartment temperature is owner work on a glass-door beverage centre. On these models the line falls at anything behind a panel and anything on the sealed system.
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