SKS water filter icon lit on the ice maker panel
On Signature Kitchen Suite models the water filter icon turns on when the cartridge is due, which SKS puts at roughly every six months.
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- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
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What Water filter icon
actually means.
On Signature Kitchen Suite models the water filter icon turns on when the cartridge is due, which SKS puts at roughly every six months. It is a maintenance prompt: the icon stays lit until someone holds the Water Filter (or Water Filter Reset) button after the change.
SKS ice maker display · also shown as Replace Filter icon, water filter indicator
What to do when Water filter icon 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
Fit a new cartridge of the part number listed in your owner's manual; expect about an ounce of water to drain as the old one comes out.
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.
MakeSKS
SKS ice maker repair, working from the rating plate and the water supply of a built-in installation.
SourceSKS integrated column freezer owner's manual (sksappliances.com PDF)
Water Filter button on the SKSSB4202S side-by-side and the SKSFD3623SD counter-depth French door; Water Filter Reset button on the column freezers (SKSCF). The cartridge part number differs by model.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from SKS's own guidance for Water filter icon on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Fit a new cartridge of the part number listed in your owner's manual; expect about an ounce of water to drain as the old one comes out.
Run 2.5 gallons through the dispenser in 30-second bursts with 60-second pauses to push out trapped air.
Hold the Water Filter or Water Filter Reset button for 3 seconds to turn the icon off.
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 icon does not test the water or the ice maker. It is a reminder based on time, and switching it off without a new cartridge only hides the reminder.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Water filter icon 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.
SKS
ice makers.
SKS ice maker repair, working from the rating plate and the water supply of a built-in installation.
SKS ice maker repairMore SKS 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.
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 SKS's own words
press and hold the Water Filter Reset button for three seconds to turn the icon light off.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Water Filter button on the SKSSB4202S side-by-side and the SKSFD3623SD counter-depth French door; Water Filter Reset button on the column freezers (SKSCF). The cartridge part number differs by model.
SKS Water filter icon ice maker repair,
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Questions
about Water filter icon.
Can I clear Water filter icon myself?
My SKS cubes got smaller before the water filter icon came on. Is the filter still the cause?
How do I turn off the water filter icon on my SKS column freezer?
Why did my SKS ice come out cloudy right after a new water filter?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Water filter icon?
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.