WR51X10055 Refrigerator Defrost Heater Replacements WR55X10025 Refrigerator Temperature Sensor WR50X10068 Defrost Thermostat Compatible with General Electric Hotpoint Replaces WR51X10030.

Works well and this is drop in replacement. Thank you!

Exact replacement for defrost heater. Did not install thermocouple and over temp relay. Very nice that they were included. Was able to check original heater with ohm meter by opening cover on back to access, disconnect and meter wires connected to heater and over temp from control board. Schematic should be attached to refrigerator. Mine was taped to bottom behind front bottom grill. Defrost over temp and heater are in series. Symptoms: freezer temp well above set point still below freezing and refrigerator section way to warm due to ice preventing cold air circulating.

The media could not be loaded. The heater element was removed after deicing the freezer and 11 we remove the Old heater element it was noticed that the Old eater heater Was discolored And showed evidence of Damage. We replaced with The New heater element provided by Amazon After Approximately 5 Days of running the GE model GSH25jxsnss Refrigerator it has been working well and shows no signs of freezing on the back Wall of the freezer, see attached photo!

Replaced the OEM unit with this one. Also replaced the board and the evap fan as part of trying to stop the ice from melting during defrost and refreezing. We had also experienced periods when the unit stopped cooling and had to be reset (the board was bad). The OEM defrost was not bad, but I thought I would replace it as part of the repairs. After all the parts were replaced the unit ran great, for a few days. Then the ice started to melt even worse than before. After research I determined that the thermister was most likely bad so I ordered two supposedly OEM parts to replace both of the parts in the freezer. I was VERY surprised when I opened the panel to find the defrost element along with the wires and parts of the inner wall melted! Obviously this this thing had been way too hot (hence the melting ice). (note: during the troubleshooting of the issue, I had tested the overlimit thermostat and it broke the circuit at approx 180' which was actually lower than the OEM part I pulled out. Specs call for 140') I tested the upper thermister and found it was bad (read 12k ohms at room temp, the new ones were 5.86k ohms). This one controls the defrost temp. It would appear that the thermister that came with this kit had failed or was bad originally. (I did not test it before installation) Fortunately I still had the OEM defrost heater and replaced the bad connectors then put the original defrost back in (after I tested it) along with the new thermisters. Twenty four hours later we still have frozen, loose ice. Time will tell if I got it fixed. The root of our problem was actually a bad evap fan motor which caused the board to go bad. I just wanted to replace all the other parts as long as I was in there. I should maybe have just left them alone. Another lesson learned, always test "new" parts before installation. I left the replacement upper limit thermostat in. Hopefully it does not fail soon.

Bueno

I replaced this on 7/21 and again on 1/23. The first was a bad defrost thermostat. The second was a bad connection at the heater...more of a bad connector from GE, but replacing it seems good to go. Glass tube heaters are not always the best in longevity, but you go with what was designed. The kit is cheap enough to buy a back up if needed...I mean when needed. This is one of the highest failures of most modern fridges and the easiest to fix.

Everything worked as it should and fixed my problem

A lot of people have complained about over heating and a bad smell. I had the smell part and the defrost cycle was making the freezer over 50F. So I checked the ohm reading and the temperature sensor that came with this purchase read around 11 ohms at room temperature. The two that were in my refrigerator, one freezer and one refrigerator, read much lower. So I bought a package of 4 #WR55X10025 off Ebay for about $10. All of them read around 5.5 ohms. Since I have replaced the sensor that came with this purchase, the smell is gone and the freezer is acting normal again.Update: Even though I did not ask for any refund, the seller responded with good feedback and gave me a $7.00 refund. I believe the seller wants to improve on his/her product.