While I have not yet installed the valve I ordered, some comments are offered:
The existing installation suggestions likely proved the real solution: adjustment of freezer temperature to offset water dispenser feed line freezing. My water dispenser operated intermittently. I ordered the replacement valve because the actuator voltage
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at the control board (measured at the cable connector) clearly switched when the door dispenser switch was pressed, but resulted in an obvious click from the water feed solenoid only when the dispenser worked. However I also followed the suggestion of reducing the freezer temperature (from -4 to zero) anyway, just in case. Sure enough, the next day the dispenser was working full time; and over a week later remains in operation.
Recent high humidity had been producing some frost around the ice dispenser; which may also have been affecting the water feed line.
I’m keeping the replacement valve assembly anyway, since one has previously failed “open” causing water to jet out of the dispenser uncontrolled until I cut the water supply to the refrigerator. That was repaired under warrantee by GE.
Unlike in the existing instruction, my refrigerator is a side-by-side, so the valve is in the upper equipment compartment, not below the unit. Also, I had installed a water shutoff valve in the back of an adjacent cabinet as a precaution when I renovated my kitchen adding my GE Monogram appliances; since reaching the old valve would require removing refrigerator mounting screws and rolling the unit out of its in-line cabinet installation. I suggest that proved to be a good idea.
As a side note, the soft pack used to mail the part failed to protect the electrical connector spades from being bent, but the damage appears minor.
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