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Customer Questions and Answers for Defrost Timer by Ge

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By: Ge
Part Number: OEM6185094
Manufacturer Part Number: WR9X489

The Defrost Timer is an OEM part for GE refrigerators. It serves as a crucial component in managing the defrost cycle of the refrigerator, ensuring that frost buildup is regularly melted away from the evaporator coils. This timer periodically switches the refrigerator between cooling and defrost mode, helping to maintain efficient operation and prevent overcooling or excessive ice accumulation.

Symptoms of a bad Defrost Timer include:

  • Frost building up more than usual in the freezer compartment.
  • The refrigerator or freezer sections becoming too warm due to prolonged defrost cycles.
  • The refrigerator not transitioning out of defrost mode, leading to spoiled food due to inadequate cooling.

Causes of a bad defrost timer can include mechanical wear from continuous use, electrical failures that impede the timer’s operation, or simply aging components that no longer function reliably.

This GE replacement part is also compatible with Hotpoint, RCA, and some Kenmore models.

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Ed for Model Number Gts22jbpbrww

Freezer back panel is frosting up, I replace defrost thermostat & defrost heater & defrost timer, Now I think the new defrost timer is bad. The old defrost thermostat # t-o-d 37tu31 31328 l64-41f 197d3382poo3j0429 The new defrost thermostat # t-o-d 37tu31 31662 l64- 41f 19703382pod6 j1339 Old defrost thermostat "OHMS" read 0 New. " ". ". ". "OHMS". """. 3 New & old Defrost timer. "OHMS. Read the same on one terminal. And turn it to defrost mode the same on other terminal Two. other terminal read 0 When I turn the timer to defrost mode the heater get hot when I by pass the thermostat the heater get hot what do I do now? Thank,You Ed

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Hello Ed, When the unit is in defrost, terminal 3 to terminal 2 should read a complete circuit, (0 ohms). When in run, terminal 3 to terminal 4 will read a complete circuit. If these read good and the timer motor runs when 120Vac is applied across terminals 3 to 1, there is no problem with the timer. You should let the unit run until down to temperature and advance the timer into the defrost cycle and look a the heater. It will heat up if operating properly, (as long as the defrost thermostat is below 50°F). If this happens properly, you should check for voltage to the timer motor. The timer has to advance in order to kick into and out of defrost. The defrost timer gets its' voltage from the temperature control.

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Answered by AppliancePartsPros.com   |   Thursday, March 6, 2014

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