Café undercounter ice maker alternating Making Ice and Filter lights
On Café's 15-inch panel-ready clear-ice and nugget ice makers, the Making Ice and Filter lights flashing in turn mean the water supply is low.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Water supply and fill
- Ice maker water inlet valve repair
- Source: Café
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What Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately
actually means.
On Café's 15-inch panel-ready clear-ice and nugget ice makers, the Making Ice and Filter lights flashing in turn mean the water supply is low. The clear-ice manual adds that the water filter may need to be replaced.
Café ice maker display
What to do when Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately shows on the ice makerKind of codeWater supply and fill
The ice maker asked for water and got too little, too slowly or none at all, or water kept arriving after the fill should have ended. A closed shutoff, a kinked line, a clogged filter and low house pressure are ruled out before the water inlet valve is replaced or the fill tube is thawed. If water is on the floor, close the supply valve before reading anything on the display.
Usually leads toIce maker water inlet valve repair
The electric valve that lets water into the ice maker, tested and replaced when it will not open, opens only partway, or keeps dripping after it should have closed.
Shows up asNo Ice Coming From the Ice Maker
The mold sits empty or holds one frozen batch that never drops, the bin stays bare for days, and the dispenser gives water as usual: an ice maker not making ice while the rest of the appliance carries on normally.
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Service for Café ice makers, covering the dispenser, the bin and the water supply behind them.
SourceGE Appliances 15-inch clear ice maker owner's manual 49-1000640 (UCC15NP)
Café 15-inch panel-ready ice makers UCC15NP (clear ice) and UNC15NP (nugget).
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Café's own guidance for Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the supply valve under the counter is open.
Look for a kinked supply line behind the unit.
Replace the filter if it is due; a clogged one limits the flow.
If the lights still alternate, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice maker water inlet valve repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
Alternating lights are not a cleaning reminder. They also differ from several lights flashing together, which the manual links to a component or sensor.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately usually leads
Ice maker water inlet valve repair.
Café
ice makers.
Service for Café ice makers, covering the dispenser, the bin and the water supply behind them.
Café ice maker repairMore Café codes
Water supply and fill on other makes
Door ice maker
The ice maker that feeds the dispenser on the outside of a door: tucked into an insulated box in the left door of a French door model, or at the top of the freezer side of a side-by-side, with a chute and an auger carrying cubes to your glass.
Undercounter ice maker
A built-in residential ice maker that lives under a kitchen, bar or basement counter, making clear cubes or chewable nugget ice on its own cooling system, with a water line in and a gravity drain or a small drain pump out.
In Café's own words
Water supply is low ("Making Ice" and "Filter" lights will flash alternately)
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Café 15-inch panel-ready ice makers UCC15NP (clear ice) and UNC15NP (nugget).
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Questions
about Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately.
Can I clear Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately myself?
What does it mean when a Café clear-ice maker flashes Making Ice and Filter one after the other?
Can an old filter cause the Café alternating light pattern?
Does the same pattern mean the same thing on the Café nugget model?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately?
Book with the code or the blink pattern written exactly as the ice maker shows it, the full model number, and whether there is any water on the floor — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.