I have the Electrolux Icon side-by-side (from what I can tell, a plain-old Frigidaire with $2000 worth of fancy appearance and stainless on it) and it is a really mediocre fridge for the cash. I would not recommend it to anyone. BUT it looks really nice and has blue illumination It's been serviced 3 times in the year we've had it.

Anyway,

I have an RO filter on the line feeding the fridge due to the fluoride content in our water (communal system, bedrock wells/treatment plant). There is sufficient water pressure out of the RO, so I'm assuming it's the water filter in the fridge that causes there to be a mere trickle at the dispenser? It's agonizing to get a glass of water (2 min +). My dogs drink a lot, so we spend a good part of our day standing at the fridge.

I want to bypass the filter. The only logical impedance to the flow seems to be the filter. I see there is a bypass available. Can't I just pull the in and out lines from the filter thingie and couple them together with 50 cents in parts from Home Depot? I don't need the filter at all.

Nope, I wouldn't do that.

This is what you need to do, pull your refrigerator out from the wall, turn off your RO water to the refrigerator, take off the water supply line that connects to your refrigerator's water inlet valve, then get a container and turn on your RO water and see if it just trickles in the container, if it does, then the problem still is in your RO water pressure.

Jake

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Lots of water going into the fridge, hardly any coming out. I went to the depot and loa nd behold the hoses I need to connect in the fridge seem to be half way between the two sizes o quick connect couplers I could find at the 'depot. Bah. I might have to get the stupid bypass yet!

EDIT!

The local home hardware had the fitting, $2.89. Bypassed the filter and the pressure is fantastic. Water tastes better...? Maybe the filter was no good, though only a year old and being fed already filtered water. Who knows, who cares. It's fixed!

Ok, if its working now, thats what counts.

Jake

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Yup. finally after a year and 3 service calls, I fixed it myself.

Boy, for the money this is one really crappy fridge.

Yea, I know what you mean, well thanks for posting what you did. I don't recommend people modifying their refrigerators, but if a member does it on there own and it works, I'm all for it too.

Jake

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