Café clear-ice maker Time to Clean light flashing
On Café's clear-ice maker the Time to Clean light comes on at about five months so you can order cleaner and flashes around six months to ask for a cleaning.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Café
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What Time to Clean flashing
actually means.
On Café's clear-ice maker the Time to Clean light comes on at about five months so you can order cleaner and flashes around six months to ask for a cleaning. It also flashes once you press and hold Clean, which is your cue to pour in the cleaner.
Café ice maker display
What to do when Time to Clean flashing 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
If the light flashes and you have not started a cycle, empty the bin and start one with the Clean button.
Shows up asIce Maker Making Small or Hollow Cubes
The ice maker making small cubes, thin crescents, hollow shells with water inside or fragments that break apart in the bin tells you the mold is not getting a full fill.
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 clear ice maker UCC15NP (owner's manual 49-1000640).
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Café's own guidance for Time to Clean flashing on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
If the light flashes and you have not started a cycle, empty the bin and start one with the Clean button.
When the light starts flashing after you hold Clean, add the 3 ounces of cleaner from the squirt bottle.
Let the cycle finish; the light turns off when it is complete.
If it stays on after a finished cycle, 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
A flashing Time to Clean light is not a breakdown. On a clear-ice unit it is either a due date or a cycle in progress.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Time to Clean flashing tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
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
function. The Time to Clean light will start to flash.
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 clear ice maker UCC15NP (owner's manual 49-1000640).
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Questions
about Time to Clean flashing.
Can I clear Time to Clean flashing myself?
Why did the Time to Clean light start flashing right after I pressed Clean on my Café?
Does scale make Café clear ice come out incomplete?
How long before the Time to Clean light on a Café goes out?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Time to Clean flashing?
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.