Monogram.
Use and Care Guide
for 48”
Built-In
Refrigerator
1993
Mompam.TM
ZS48N
ZSB48D
ZSW48D
Introduction
Your new Monogram refrigerator makes an eloquent statement of style,
convenience and kitchen planning flexibility. Whether you chose it for its
purity of design, practical storage arrangements or assiduous attention to
detail—or for all of these reasons—you’ll find that your Monogram
refrigerator’s superior blend of form and function will delight you for
years to come.
The Monogram refrigerator was designed to provide the flexibility to blend
in with your kitchen
cabinetry.
Decorative door insert panels allow it to
match your kitchen cabinets or blend with your kitchen decor. Custom
handles are also available to further personalize your refrigerator. Through a
series of product and trim kit choices, the Monogram refrigerator can be
beautifully integrated into the kitchen.
Since this is designed to be a built-in product, custom panels are required
on the front of the Monogram refrigerator. Consult your kitchen designer or
cabinetmaker for your customized look.
The information on the following pages will help you operate and maintain
your refrigerator properly.
For more information, please refer to the following publications:
24-MO02
Product Planning and Installation Information
49-6457
Installation Instructions
49-6458
Trim Options and Instructions
These can be obtained from a GE Monogram dealer. For a listing of
dealers—or if you have other questions—please call the GE Answer
Center” (800.626.2000).
Contenk
Appliance Registration .................3
Care and Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–16
Condenser ............................14
Drawer/Cover Removal .......16
Light Bulb Replacement ......15
Vacation Tips .......................16
Consumer Services .....................22
Food Storage Suggestions ..........10
Storage Times ......................10
Ice and Water Dispenser ...........6–9
Installation .................................17
Adapter Plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Clearances ............................17
Electrical Requirements .......17
Grounding ............................17
Leveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Model and Serial Numbers ...........3
Power Saver Switch ......................5
Problem Solver .....................18–20
Safety Instructions ........................4
Shelves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...12
Storage Drawers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11
Temperature Controls ...................5
Water Filter Accessory .................9
Warranty .....................................23
Read this book carefully.
It is intended to help you operate and maintain your new refrigerator properly.
Keep it handy for answers to your questions.
If you don’t understand something or need more help, write (include your
phone number):
Consumer Affairs
GE Appliances
Appliance Park
Louisville, KY 40225
Write down the model and serial number.
You’ll see them on a label on the right side, near the bottom of the fresh
food compartment.
These numbers are also on the Consumer Product Ownership Registration
Card that came with your refrigerator. Before sending in this card, please
write these numbers here:
Model Number
Use these numbers in any
correspondence or service calls
Serial Number
concerning your refrigerator.
If you received a damaged refrigerator...
Immediately contact the dealer (or builder) that sold you the refrigerator.
Save time and money. Before you request service...
Check the Problem Solver in the back of this book. It lists causes of minor
operating problems that you can correct yourself.
If you need service...
To obtain service, see the
Consumer Services page in the
back of this book.
We’re proud of our service and
want you to be pleased. If for some
reason you are not happy with the
service you receive, here are three
steps to follow for further help.
FIRST, contact the people who
serviced your appliance. Explain
why you are not pleased. In most
cases, this will solve the problem.
NEXT, if you are still not pleased,
write all the details—including
your phone number—to:
Manager, Consumer Relations
GE Appliances
Appliance Park
Louisville, KY 40225
FINALLY, if your problem is still
not resolved, write:
Major Appliance Consumer
Action Panel
20 North
Wacker
Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
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OPEMT~G
YOUR
REFWGEMTOR
Set Temperature Controls
Your refrigerator has two
controls that let you regulate the
temperature in the fresh food and
freezer compartments.
They have settings from 1 through
9, and are located at the top of the
fresh food compartment.
The freezer control also has
an OFF setting.
9 is the coldest setting, 1 is the
wa
WHEN YOU FIRST TURN THE REFMGERATOR
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ON, SET BOTH CONTROLS AT 5.
For colder or warmer temperatures, adjust the desired
FRESH FOOO
compartment control one number at a time.
IMPORTANT: When first
settin~
controls. or
—
adjusting them, allow 24 hours for the refrigerator
to get cold.
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5 IS NORMAL
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NOTE: Turning the freezer control to the OFF
FREEZER
position stops cooling in BOTH compartments—
fresh food AND freezer—but does not shut off
rmest.
power to the refrigerator.
How to Test Temperatures
Use the milk test for the fresh
food compartment. Place a
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freezer compartment. Place a
container of milk on the top shelf
in the fresh food compartment. center of the freezer compartment.
Check it a day later. If the milk is
Check it after a day. If it’s too
too warm or too cold, adjust the
hard or too soft, adjust the
temperature controls.
temperature controls.
Power Saver Switch
The power saver switch is located
on the temperature control panel.
To reduce the amount of electricity required
to operate your refrigerator, push switch to
POWER SAVER setting.
This turns off the heater in your refrigerator that
prevents moisture from forming on the outside of the
refrigerator.
With the heater turned off, there is a chance that
moisture may form on the outside of your refrigerator,
especially when the weather is humid.
The humidity is most likely to be high in the summer,
in the early morning hours, and in homes which are
not air conditioned.
Over an extended period of time, moisture that forms
on the refrigerator surface may cause deterioration of
the paint finish. It will be important to protect the
finish by using appliance polish wax as described in
the Care and Cleaning section.
Move the power saver switch from the POWER
SAVER setting and electricity flows through the low
wattage heater which warms the outside of the
refrigerator. Under most conditions, this prevents the
forming of moisture or water droplets.
No Defrosting
It is not necessary to defrost the freezer or fresh food
compartments. Although your refrigerator is designed
and equipped to defrost itself automatically, some
frost on packages is normal.
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ICE &
CH~LED
WATER DISPENSER
(on some models)
Automatic
Icemaker
and Ice & Chilled Water Dispenser
Some models have an automatic icemaker and a
dispenser that dispenses chilled water, ice cubes and
crashed ice through the freezer compartment door.
Here’s how they work.
Water flows from the
household supply
through a
(1) dual solenoid valve
to the
(2) water reservoir and
to the
(3) automatic
icemaker
as needed.
Water is frozen in the
(4) cube mold and ejected into the
(5) storage bin where a motor-powered auger moves
cubes forward into the dispensing unit. Cubes or
crushed ice, as selected, dispense through chute in
door when cradle is pressed.
When the switch is moved to CRUSHED, the baffle
in housing channels cubes through the crusher and
crushed ice falls through chute into glass.
Chilled water from reservoir flows through the
(6) tubing in the door and is dispensed when the
cradle is pressed.
(7) A light switch turns the night light in the
dispenser on and off.
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Before Using Your
Icemaker
and Dispenser
If you use your refrigerator
w
Ice
before the water connection is
access
made, raise the ice access door
I
door
and make sure the icemaker
feeler arm is in the STOP (up)
9
Icemaker
position as shown below.
arm in
(up)
n
water line and to fill water reservoir automatically.
Ice cube mold automatic
fills with water after
cooling to freezing
temperatures. First
cubes normally freeze
after several hours.
NOTE: With a
newly-
m in
installed refrigerator,
n)
allow about 24 hours for
the freezer compartment to cool down to the proper
ice-making temperature.
Once Your
Icemaker
and Dispenser are in Operation
Throw away the first few batches of ice cubes
(16 or 24 cubes). This will flush away any impurities
Caution:
in the water line. Do the same thing after vacations or
Under
cefiin
rare circumstances,
ice cubes
may
extended periods when ice isn’t used.
be discolored, usually appearing with a green-
Discard the first six
glassfuls
of water in the kitchen
bluish color. The cause of
this
unusual
sink. This will eliminate the slight “plastic” taste
discoloration is apparently
du~
to a combination
temporarily imparted to the water by the water reservoir.
of factors such as
cefin
characteristics of local
Keep ice level to keep icemaker productive.
Cubes
waters, household plumbing and the
ejected into an empty storage bin will pile up close to
accumulation of copper salts in an inactive water
the icemaker and push the feeler arm up to the STOP
supply line which feeds
tie icernaker.
Continued
consumption of such discolored ice
cubes
maybe
position prematurely when the bin is only partially full.
Open the ice access door, reach in, level the cubes by
injurious to health. If
such
discoloration is
hand and
icemaking
will resume. Keeping cubes
observed, discard the ice cubes and contact your
GE Factory Service Center or an authorized
distributed evenly will allow the
icemaker
to produce
Customer
Care”
Servicer.
enough ice to fill the bin to its maximum capacity.
To Dispense Ice and Water
For ice, set selector
switch to CUBED,
CRUSHED or
CHILLED WATER.
Grip glass or
other container
gently near the
rim and press rim
firmly against
dispenser cradle.
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CAUTION: Never put fingers orother objects into
theicecrusher
discharge opening.
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ICE &
CH~LED
WATER DISPENSER
(continued)
When Dispensing Ice...
When Dispensing Water...
Some crushed ice may be dispensed even
though you selected CUBED. This happens
occasionally when a few cubes accidentally get
channeled to the crusher.
Sometimes a mound of snow will form on the
door in the ice chute. This condition is normal, and
usually occurs when you have dispensed crushed ice
repeatedly. The snow will eventually evaporate.
The water system provides approximately six
successive 6-ounce
glassfuls—after which several
hours must be allowed for replenished water reservoir
supply to cool. You probably will not drain all the
chilled water from the reservoir on a single occasion.
The first glass of water dispensed maybe warmer
than the following ones. This is normal.
Dispensed water is chilled, not iced. For colder
water, simply add crushed ice or cubes before
dispensing water.
To Stop Dispensing
Release
uressure
from cradle and withdraw
slowly
~
to catch
~ast
bits of ice or drops of water.
Some slight dripping may occur following dispensing
of crushed ice or chilled water. If excessive, the spill
should be wiped dry immediately.
Do not pour water in spill shelf because it is not
self-draining—pour it in the kitchen sink. The shelf
and
its grille should be cleaned regularly according to
the Care and Cleaning section.
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If Ice Clumps Form in Storage Bin...
The icemaker ejects cubes in groups of eight, and it
If this happens:
is normal for several cubes to be joined together.
● Remove storage bin from freezer compartment.
However, infrequent usage of ice can cause ice
● Break up ice clumps with fingertip pressure and
clumps to form in the storage bin, resulting in
discard remaining clumps.
temporary malfunction of the dispenser mechanism.
● Replace bin before remaining cubes melt and fuse
together.
To Remove Ice Cube Storage Bin
\
Lift the left corner to free the bin from the shelf,
and pull the bin straight out while supporting it at
front and back.
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