WR30X10093 General Electric Refrigerator Ice Maker Kit OEM WR30X10093

Bought this to replace ice maker in year 2000 side-by-side that has the 'round' connector on the sidewall. This adapter cable approach is terrible. The result of adding the adapter to the attached cable results in far too much length that has to be dressed somewhere -- without any help from the online instruction manual that I had to find on line because there was no instructions in the box. You can't hang the excess cable down because it interferes with the ice bin. Had to loop the cable upward between the two screw attachment points, but all the while fighting the connection / connector between the two cables and a required twist to the wire. Makes it look very odd as installed. It took three of my own zip-ties to hold the excess cable in place so that I could attach the ice maker to the sidewall. I expected better engineering from GE. This ice maker is the only OEM alternative. Didn't want to risk installing an aftermarket from 3rd party.

If you have a fridge with a plastic interior, this requires you to remove the old stripper (the part with the teeth), remove the one on the new unit, and put the old one on the new unit. It is not easy to do without cracking the stripper. They should have shipped the new unit- with the 2 different kinds of strippers, allowing you to choose which one to install. Second, the unit does not ship with the mounting screws and you use the original ones. If the screws were a tiny bit longer you would be able to put them in and then "hand" the unit on it and then tighten them. However they have to be removed altogether. Because of the angles it is not so easy to hold the unit place and then put the screws in without dropping them. GE recognizes this because the manual says "if the screws fall into the icemaker they can be retrieved when the icemaker is removed". What about the inverse- by the tie a screw falls into the icemaker you would have plugged it in. So now you have to unplug the unit and possibly the first screw you successfully installed, to retrieve the screw that fell. Finally the unit should come with instructions as to how to adjust the water flow. (It appears to be a little turn know on the front but it not a screw so you have to try to turn it with your finger- not terrible easy or friendly. Bottom line is that GE "cheaped out" for a plastic part and a couple of screws and some instructions.