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Customer Questions and Answers for Defrost Timer by Ge

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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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Hello Joe. Based on the information you provided, it sounds like the temp control WR9X569 is bad and will need to be replaced.

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Hello Barry, If the food is only freezing in the crisper drawers and near the bottom of the unit, the issue is most likely the temperature setting. Refrigeration is backwards so think of it this way. Cold air is heavier than warm air. If the fans are not running, the cold air will equalize at the bottom of the unit. This will make the items in the bottom of the unit freeze on the fresh food side and the top of the unit will warm up on the freezer side causing slow or some times no ice production. The cure for this is to set the fresh food side to a colder setting which will make the unit kick the fans on more often and circulate the air inside the unit. If this is still too cold, try setting the freezer a number warmer.

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Jacob, The terminals 1 and 3 are for the timer motor and if the timer is not advancing and you have no continuity on these terminals then the timer is faulty and would need to be replaced.

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David, the defrost control part number WR9X489 is located in the refrigerator section behind the control housing. Thanks.

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Mom, It sounds like the defrost timer may be sticking during the defrost or the fan operating during the defrost. This would be caused by a faulty defrost timer WR9X489.

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Bob, You will want to check the damper door to make sure that it is open. It sounds like the damper WR9X522 is not opening and would need to be replaced.

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Hello Sam. If it was just the bottom, and there was no frost on the top of the evaporator, you have a sealed system issue, and not a defrost issue. You will need an HVAC tech to repair the unit.

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Kurt, You will want to check to make sure that the dispenser ice door is closing all the way. If the door is not closing all the way then it will cause the unit to form frost under the ice bin and cause excess frost on the rear wall of unit.

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Hello Tom, You have either installed a bad temperature control WR9X569, (new parts can be bad since they are man made) or the temperature controls sensing bulb has been mis-routed and it is not sensing the temperature properly.

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