Samsung 40E or 40C: ice room fan
Samsung lists 40E, or 40C, as an Ice Room Fan problem.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Fans and airflow
- Diagnostic visit
- Source: Samsung
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What 40E
actually means.
Samsung lists 40E, or 40C, as an Ice Room Fan problem. On models with an in-door ice maker, that fan pushes freezer air up to the ice compartment; without it, ice forms slowly or not at all and frost can build around the fan.
Samsung ice maker display · also shown as 40C
What to do when 40E shows on the ice makerKind of codeFans and airflow
The fan that moves cold air to the ice maker stopped, slowed or froze in place. A door ice maker depends on that air, carried to the door through a duct, so when the fan quits the ice compartment warms and cubes melt and refreeze into clumps. Ice blocking the blades or the duct is ruled out before a motor is ordered.
Usually leads toDiagnostic visit
A visit that traces the water from the supply valve to the bin and back out through the drain, and names the one part that stopped the ice before anything is ordered.
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.
MakeSamsung
Samsung ice maker repair, with the door ice maker, the dispenser and the water line in scope.
SourceSamsung error codes page
Samsung models with an ice room for the in-door ice maker.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Samsung's own guidance for 40E on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Listen at the ice compartment with the door closed for the fan; silence while the ice bin is empty fits this code.
If you see frost around the ice maker, unplug the unit and let the ice compartment thaw fully with towels in place.
Plug it back in and book a visit if 40E returns within a day or two.
What not to do
40E does not concern the freezer fan or the fresh food fan, which Samsung reports with other numbers. It also is not a water problem, even though the ice maker stops producing.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems 40E tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
Samsung
ice makers.
Samsung ice maker repair, with the door ice maker, the dispenser and the water line in scope.
Samsung ice maker repairMore Samsung codes
Fans and airflow 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.
In Samsung's own words
Ice Room Fan Error
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Samsung models with an ice room for the in-door ice maker.
Samsung 40E ice maker repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about 40E.
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Can frost cause 40E on a Samsung ice maker?
My Samsung shows 40C instead of 40E. Is it different?
Back to your everyday
Still showing 40E?
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.