The short answer for these models
Ice makers fail in three places and only one of them is the ice maker. Water has to arrive, the compartment has to be cold enough to finish a batch, and the finished ice has to get out of the way of the next one. Check those three in order and the mechanism is usually exonerated. The BDA models take the same faults in a different order: a plumbed cabinet has a second source of water and a second thing to fail, and a page that ignores which one you have sends you looking in the wrong place, and the water-path checks therefore come before anything else.
What you actually see
- How your BDA unit is built — the check that comes before the list — Look behind for a supply line. Fitted, and water on the floor has two possible origins; absent, and every drop was condensed or melted inside the cabinet.
- No ice at all, and the tray or mould is dry — A dry mould is a strong signal: the mechanism cannot fail in a way that leaves no water behind.
- A sheet of ice under the bin or over the mould — Water going somewhere other than the mould — an overfill, a misaligned fill tube or a leaking valve.
Causes, most likely first on this family
- Frost or a jam in the path the ice takes out — It ranks here because it imitates a failed mechanism exactly and because it is visible once you empty the bin. It is placed first on the BDA models rather than where the brand-level page puts it, because the form of the unit decides how much this can explain — which makes the water-path checks the checks with the most to say.
- The fill valve, the mechanism or its heater — Last because everything above it is cheaper, more likely and checkable without tools, and because confirming this one means live terminals.
The order the checks belong in
- First — look at the mould and the bin — This one check splits the whole diagnosis in half before you touch anything. On these models this is the step the construction changes: read the result against the form you identified first, because the same finding means different things on the two.
- Second — empty the bin completely and look underneath — Take everything out. Half of these complaints are visible the moment the bin is empty.
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. No hand goes into an ice maker to free a jam while it is live: the harvest runs on its own schedule and does not know your hand is there. Clear ice with warm water only, shut any supply valve first, and dry the floor as you go.
Where the owner job ends
The line falls where the mechanism begins. Water supply, a raised arm and a frozen bin are yours; the module, the valve and the wiring behind the panel are not. Say whether ice stopped suddenly or faded over weeks — the two point at different parts.
The other symptoms covered for this family
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