Dacor column freezer filter light blinking red
On Dacor column freezers with ice makers, the Filter indicator blinks red after about 6 months on the original filter, roughly 300 gallons of water.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Dacor
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What Filter indicator blinking red
actually means.
On Dacor column freezers with ice makers, the Filter indicator blinks red after about 6 months on the original filter, roughly 300 gallons of water. The filter supplies the ice makers, so an overdue one can slow the fill and affect how the ice tastes.
Dacor ice maker display
What to do when Filter indicator blinking red 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
Replace the water filter with the one listed for your column.
Shows up asIce Tastes or Smells Bad
The ice tastes bad or smells stale, musty, of plastic or of whatever else is in the freezer, even though a glass of tap water tastes fine.
MakeDacor
Dacor ice maker repair at home, traced along the water path from the wall valve to the ice bin.
SourceDacor 18-inch column freezer User Manual (Dacor product files on Samsung's US CDN)
Dacor column freezers covered by the BRR9000M freezer manual (filed under the DRZ18980 model), with standard and Cocktail Ice makers.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Dacor's own guidance for Filter indicator blinking red on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Replace the water filter with the one listed for your column.
Press and hold Filter Reset for 3 seconds to clear the indicator.
If ice stays slow or small with a fresh filter, 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 blinking Filter light is not a problem with the ice maker itself. It is a timed reminder based on the filter's expected life.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Filter indicator blinking red 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.
Dacor
ice makers.
Dacor ice maker repair at home, traced along the water path from the wall valve to the ice bin.
Dacor ice maker repair
In Dacor's own words
indicator blinks red to remind you that the filter needs to be replaced.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Dacor column freezers covered by the BRR9000M freezer manual (filed under the DRZ18980 model), with standard and Cocktail Ice makers.
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Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Filter indicator blinking red?
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.