Operating Sounds - Maytag Ice2O MFI2568AES Use And Care Manual

Operating Sounds

Improvements in refrigeration design may produce sounds in your new refrigerator that are different or were not
present in an older model. These improvements were made to create a refrigerator that is better at preserving food,
is more energy efficient, and is quieter overall. Because new refrigerators run quieter, sounds may be detected that
were present in older refrigerators, but were masked by higher sound levels. Many of these sounds are normal.
Please note that the surfaces adjacent to a refrigerator, such as hard walls, floors and cabinetry may make these
sounds seem even louder. The following are some of the normal sounds that may be noticed in a new refrigerator.
SOUND
Clicking
• Freezer control (A) clicks when starting or
stopping compressor.
• Defrost timer or electric damper control (select
models) (B) sounds like an electric clock and
snaps in and out of defrost cycle.
Air rushing
• Condenser fan (D) makes this noise while
or whirring
operating.
• Freezer fan (C) makes this noise while
operating.
• Freezer fan (C) slows to a stop as the freezer
door is opened.
Gurgling or
• Evaporator (E) and heat exchanger (F)
boiling sound
refrigerant make this noise when flowing.
Thumping
• Ice cubes from ice maker drop into ice bucket (G).
• Dispenser ice chute (H) closing.
Vibrating
• Compressor (I) makes a pulsating sound while
noise
running.
• Refrigerator is not level.
Buzzing
• Ice maker water valve (J) hookup buzzes when
ice maker fills with water.
Humming
• Ice maker (K) is in the 'on' position without
water connection.
• Ice auger (L) hums as auger agitates ice during
dispensing.
• Compressor (I) can make a high pitched hum
while operating.
• Solenoid valve (M) operating ice chute door.
Beeping • Doors are open, or have not been properly
closed.
• Door Alarm, Temp Alarm.
POSSIBLE CAUSES SOLUTION
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• See Leveling, page 4.
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• Stop sound by turning ice maker
switch to OFF. See Automatic Ice
Maker, page 12 for details.
• Normal operation
• Normal operation
• See Opening and Closing your Fresh
Food Doors, page 9.
• See page 11 for Door Alarm and Temp
Alarm.
G
K
H
M
F
C
A
J
I
B
D
E
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