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okay today I'm going to be showing you

how to check and replace the optic

sensor in your ice maker if your ice

maker has one of these optic sensors you

can see we have no ice so what we have

some refrigerators instead of using a

bar to detect the ice level they use a

laser that basically shines through the

ice bin and detects when the ice level

is too high now you see the lights

flashing twice and there's a delay

that's normal when this door is open

basically meaning that the laser is

being blocked but when you close it it

should become a solid red light and

you'll see that's not happening a good

indication that the optics is bad I'm

going to show you another way to test it

too just to be sure but the first step

is we're going to need to take these

three screws out you have to lift up

this door a little bit at least on this

model and there are three Phillips

screws so let's just take those out and

you'll see what's behind there not much

to it now there's this wiring harness

you're going to be very careful

unplugging it because it's so short and

also I recommend you unplug your

refrigerator while doing this because

you can get shocked touching this I'm

not going to because I need the light

source and I'm just not going to touch

it and hopefully not get shocked so take

the wiring harness off and then what

you're looking for is starting at the

top and working down you'll see there's

a pin a missing pin and then a pin on

this one it's the two wires beneath the

yellow wire once you see the the missing

pin it's the two wires directly

underneath that which in this case are

black and white and black and you'll see

the two wires are short I've just got a

little jumper wire here I recommend you

have the refrigerator off while you do

this but you can even use a paperclip to

do this so I'm simply going to jump

these two wires these two pins together

again if you do use a paperclip make

sure you once you turn the refrigerator

back on that you do not touch the

paperclip because they can shock you so

I'm going to short this out and then

this is one of the best ways to test it

I'm going to close it up and give your

ice maker Lyall give your you know maybe

several hours not a day or more and see

if it starts making ice again if so you

know that's the problem okay so let's

get on to replacing it let's assume it's

bad again the other side three screws

just like this side I'm going to take

those out it's got

similar connector and here we see both

I've got both the transmitter and the

receiver you see what it looks like and

I've also got the new ones that I bought

I bought these off of Amazon if you buy

these from whirlpool or KitchenAid you

can expect this the cost I think it's

almost $200 you can get a generic kit

off of Amazon for less than $30 and

that's what free shipping to replace it

it's just 2 Phillips screws on either

one and you can see just how quick it is

to and easy to replace anybody with a

screwdriver can do this I'm just be real

careful absorb anti-static precautions

you know make sure you're not doing this

on a carpeted floor that you've touched

something that's grounded with your

hands before you go do this otherwise

you could ruin this board as well so

we're just going to take the two boards

out replace them with the new ones and I

can tell you that this is literally as

easy as it looks so once we get those

replaced we're going to put them back in

the refrigerator and one of the things I

want to explain you is that a lot of

refrigerators use you probably familiar

with it

they have a bar that gets raised as the

ice rate as the ice level increases and

that bar turns the icemaker off this one

uses these optics to sense the ice level

and when the ice level gets too high it

turns the icemaker off which is when the

optics go bad what generally happens

it'll turn the icemaker off and you

won't be getting ice when in fact just

because it thinks the ice bin is full so

now we're going to plug this in and

these these connectors are really short

and it can be kind of a pain to get them

plugged in and you'll see that it's even

a struggle to kind of get it back in

it's probably a little easier for you

just not making excuses here I'm having

to I'm having to deal with working

around the camera so it's a little more

inconvenient but I'm they will slide

right in they're just going to put your

three screws back in and again there are

other things that can go bad on your ice

maker if it's not filling with water

that's quite often the water control

valve at the back and there are ways to

check that as well but for this one I'm

simply covering the optics because it

literally is the most common eye

I'm to fail on these refrigerators when

the icemaker quits working and it's easy

to test so you can be sure that before

you order one that it is the problem and

that's what I like about this I like not

having to just replace random parts to

see if that fixes it so this is one of

the first things I would test so now

we're going to put the mainboard back in

again I recommend you do this while the

refrigerator is off and if you choose

not to I do recommend that when you're

finished once you get this back in place

I recommend that you cut your

refrigerator off for maybe ten or

fifteen seconds or power it off and then

power it back on just to make sure

you've reset everything and then I'll

show you here how to how to test and

make sure that the optic sensor is in

fact working if you remember from the

beginning of the video I showed you that

the light kept flashing twice even when

the beam wasn't broken which indicates

that it's that the optic sensor is

faulty and now once I get the new one

back in place um

I'll show you how to test it again and

you'll see that the light should go

solid which is it's great that you can

test something that it this easily so

once we get these screws back in I'll

close the flapper door on the other side

we'll see the light goes solid and then

wait 24 hours or so and hopefully you

have ice and as you can see this entire

procedure took me about six minutes it

really did and less than thirty dollars

which is you know probably not even a

half or third what you would pay to have

a technician come out so here you see me

closing the flapper door the light goes

solid and when I let go and the beam is

broken again it flashes it's a very good

way to to know that the optics was in

fact faulty and I kind of want you to

see what it looks like when it's working

correctly so flashing I close it light

goes solid alright hope that helps

see y'all soon