Viking nugget model: ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking together
On Viking's FNIU515D, ICE and DRAIN blinking together is the air temperature sensor error.
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What ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking
actually means.
On Viking's FNIU515D, ICE and DRAIN blinking together is the air temperature sensor error. The sensor that reads the air in front of the condenser is disconnected or shorted, so the control loses its reading of the conditions the unit is working in.
Viking ice maker display
What to do when ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking shows on the ice makerKind of codeTemperature sensors
The control lost track of how cold the ice mold or the ice compartment is, because a thermistor reads nonsense or its wire lost contact. Without that reading the ice maker cannot tell when a batch is frozen, so it stops or harvests at the wrong time. Frost packed around the sensor and a loose plug are checked before the sensor itself is changed.
Usually leads toIce maker control and sensor repair
The control board, the thermistors, the bin sensor and the wiring that decide when an ice maker fills, freezes and stops, tested and repaired when a light flashes, a code shows, a breaker trips or the ice never stops coming.
Shows up asNugget Ice Maker Not Making Nugget Ice
A nugget ice maker not making ice runs and hums but drops nothing, makes wet slush instead of crisp pellets, or stops after a few batches with a light on.
MakeViking
Viking ice maker repair, whether it sits under the counter or inside a built-in unit.
SourceViking FNIU515D 15-inch panel-ready nugget ice model owner's guide (Viking's Middleby CDN PDF)
Viking FNIU515D panel-ready nugget model with drain pump; the three lamps are ICE, NO WATER and DRAIN on the display panel.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Viking's own guidance for ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Note the two-lamp pattern and the model number.
Make sure the front grille and the area in front of the condenser are clear of dust and objects.
Book a visit to have the air temperature sensor tested.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice maker control and sensor repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
This pattern is not the drain error. That error blinks the DRAIN lamp by itself.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking usually leads
Ice maker control and sensor repair.
Viking
ice makers.
Viking ice maker repair, whether it sits under the counter or inside a built-in unit.
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Temperature sensors on other makes
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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 Viking's own words
When the air temperature sensor in front of
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Viking FNIU515D panel-ready nugget model with drain pump; the three lamps are ICE, NO WATER and DRAIN on the display panel.
Viking ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking 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
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HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking?
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.