GE undercounter nugget ice maker flashing Making Ice and Filter in turn
On GE's 15-inch built-in nugget ice maker, the Making Ice and Filter lights taking turns to flash is the control's sign that the water supply is low.
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- Water supply and fill
- Ice maker water inlet valve repair
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What Making Ice and Filter lights flashing alternately
actually means.
On GE's 15-inch built-in nugget ice maker, the Making Ice and Filter lights taking turns to flash is the control's sign that the water supply is low. GE's remedy is to make sure the supply is turned on and the lines are not kinked.
GE 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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GE ice maker repair in ordinary kitchens, covering the freezer tray, the door dispenser and the water line.
SourceGE Appliances 15-inch nugget ice maker owner's manual 49-1000610 (UNC15NP)
GE-branded 15-inch panel-ready nugget ice maker UNC15NP (owner's manual 49-1000610).
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from GE'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 shutoff valve feeding the ice maker is fully open.
Pull the unit out only as far as the lines allow and look for a kinked or crushed supply tube.
If a filter is fitted and old, replace it, since a clogged cartridge also starves the fill.
If the lights keep alternating with good water flow, 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
This pattern is not a request to clean the unit or change the filter on schedule; those have their own lights. It is also different from several lights flashing at once, which GE ties 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.
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ice makers.
GE ice maker repair in ordinary kitchens, covering the freezer tray, the door dispenser and the water line.
GE ice maker repairMore GE 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.
Freezer ice maker
The ice maker that sits inside the freezer compartment itself, a tray that twists or a mold with a heater and an ejector, dropping cubes into a bin or drawer you open by hand, with no dispenser on the door.
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 GE'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. GE-branded 15-inch panel-ready nugget ice maker UNC15NP (owner's manual 49-1000610).
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Questions
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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.