Automatic Ice Maker; When Ice Maker Does Not Operate Smoothly; Express Freezing - LG GC-P207 Service Manual

MICOM FUNCTION

2-2. Automatic ice maker

• The automatic ice maker can automatically make 8 pieces of ice cube at a time, 80 pieces a day. But these quantities may
be varied according to various conditions including how many times the refrigerator door opens and closes.
• Ice making stops when the ice storage bin is full.
• If you don't want to use automatic ice-maker, change the ice-maker switch to ON-OFF.
If you want to use automatic ice-maker again, change the switch to OFF-ON.
NOTE : It is normal that a noise is produced when ice made is dropped into the ice storage bin.

2-3. When ice maker does not operate smoothly

Ice is lumped together
• When ice is lumped together, take the ice lumps out of the ice storage bin, break them into small pieces, and then place
them into the ice storage bin again.
• When the ice maker produces too small or lumped together ice, the amount of water supplied to the ice maker need to
adjusted. Contact the service center.
✻ If ice is not used frequently, it may lump together.
Power failure
• Ice may drop into the freezer compartment. Take the ice storage bin out and discard all the ice then dry it and place it
back. After the machine is powered again, crushed ice will be automatically selected.
The unit is newly installed
• It takes about 12 hours for a newly installed refrigerator to make ice in the freezer compartment.

2-4. Express freezing

1. Express freezing is function to improve cooling speed of the freezing room by consecutively operating compressors and
freezing room fan.
2. Express freezing is released if power failure occurs and then returns to the original status.
3. Temperature setting is not changed even if selecting the express freezing.
4. The change of temperature setting at the freezing room or the cold storage room is allowed with express freezing
selected and prrocessed.
5. The cold storage room operates the status currently set with Express freezing selected and procesed.
6. If selecting the Express freezing, the Express freezing function is released after continuously operating compressor and
freezing room fan.
7. If frost removal starting time is arrived during Express freezing, Express freezing operation is done only for the remaining
time after completion of frost removal when the Express freezing operation time passes 90 minutes. If passing 90
minutes, Express freezing operation is done only for 2 hours after completion of frost removal.
8. If pressing Express freezing button during frost removal, the Express freezing LED is turned on but if pressing the
Express freezing, compressor operates after the remaining time has passed.
9. If selection Express freezing within 7 minutes (delay for 7 minutes of compressor) after the compressor stops,
compressor operates after the remaining time has passed.
10. The freezing room fan motor operates at the high speed of RPM during operation of Express freezing.
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