Café undercounter ice maker Making Ice light flashing when switched off
When you turn a Café built-in ice maker off while it is making ice, the Making Ice light flashes until the current cycle is complete, and the unit then drains the water in its tank.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Café
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What Making Ice light flashing after power off
actually means.
When you turn a Café built-in ice maker off while it is making ice, the Making Ice light flashes until the current cycle is complete, and the unit then drains the water in its tank. It is the normal shutdown sequence.
Café ice maker display
What to do when Making Ice light flashing after power off shows on the ice makerKind of codeMode, not a failure
Something the ice maker was switched into, often without anyone noticing, rather than something that broke: ice turned off from the panel or by the wire arm lifted while reaching into the bin, a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a cleaning cycle still running, a reminder that the water filter is due. No part has worn out, and the ice maker's own buttons or arm put it right.
Usually leads toNo repair
Wait for the light to stop; the nugget model gives 1 to 3 minutes.
Shows up asIce Maker Light Flashing
An ice maker light flashing where it used to glow steadily: a blinking power or ice light, a flashing clean or descale symbol, an add-water light, or a status light on the ice maker itself.
MakeCafé
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 and UNC15NP.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Café's own guidance for Making Ice light flashing after power off on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Wait for the light to stop; the nugget model gives 1 to 3 minutes.
Let the unit drain its tank before unplugging or moving it.
If you must stop it at once, press and hold Power again as the manual describes.
If the light flashes long after shutdown, book a visit.
Cleared?
The ice maker is filling and dropping cubes again and no part was needed. If the same code returns during the next harvest, or water shows up on the floor again, book it as a new problem.
What not to do
The flashing Making Ice light at shutdown is not a water or sensor problem. It only means the last cycle is being completed.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Making Ice light flashing after power off tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
Ice Maker Light Flashing
6 causes, cheapest first
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
Something the ice maker was switched into, often without anyone noticing, rather than something that broke: ice turned off from the panel or by the wire arm lifted while reaching into the bin, a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a cleaning cycle still running, a reminder that the water filter is due. No part has worn out, and the ice maker's own buttons or arm put it right.
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
Mode, not a failure 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
will flash until the current icemaking cycle is complete prior to turning off. The icemaker will also drain
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 and UNC15NP.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Making Ice light flashing after power off?
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.