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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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Walter, remove power to the refrigerator, remove the connector and remove the timer. With a meter set on the lowest resistance setting or continuity, check across terminals 1 and 3 on the timer, this is the timer motor circuit and you should read a closed circuit/continuity. Then check across terminals 2 and 3, if the timer is in a defrost mode you should read a closed circuit/continuity. Then check across terminals 3 and 4 if the timer is in a cooling mode, you should have a closed circuit or continuity. Then slowly,carefully turn the adjustment knob until you hear two loud clicks, then check that circuits between 2 and 3 and 3 and 4 have reversed and are opposite circuits from the first test.

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Answered by AppliancePartsPros.com   |   Wednesday, July 12, 2017

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