Follett Filter Replacement Required: time to change the ice dispenser water filter
Champion dispensers track the water filter on a timer of up to six months.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Follett
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What Filter Replacement Required
actually means.
Champion dispensers track the water filter on a timer of up to six months. When it expires, Filter Replacement Required appears. The message is a reminder based on time, not a reading of how clogged the filter is.
Follett ice machine display
What to do when Filter Replacement Required shows on the ice machineKind of codeMode, not a failure
Nothing is broken; the control is reporting a state someone chose or a routine it runs: a clean or sanitize reminder counting the hours since the last cycle, a delay of a few minutes after power returns before the pump and compressor start, a bin-full light while the bin control is satisfied, or a standby or off mode someone chose at the keypad. No part is needed; finishing the cycle the light asks for, waiting out the delay or the key sequence from the manual ends it.
Usually leads toNo repair
Replace the filter cartridge with the one listed for your unit.
Shows up asIce Machine Error Code or Flashing Light: What It Is Telling You
An ice machine error code may show as a number on a small display, a pattern of blinking lights on the control board, a colored light on the front, or a machine that stops with one indicator flashing.
MakeFollett
A Follett visit weighs how chewable ice is made and moved to the bin or the dispenser before looking at any single part.
SourceFollett Champion 7 and 15 ice and water dispenser manual
Champion 7 and Champion 15 dispensers with an internal filter.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Follett's own guidance for Filter Replacement Required on its ice machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Replace the filter cartridge with the one listed for your unit.
Seat the new cartridge firmly; Follett's leak checklist starts with a filter that was not inserted correctly.
Reset the filter timer from the service menu as the manual describes.
If ice output drops even with a fresh filter, book a visit.
Cleared?
The light or code is gone, and the machine fills, freezes and drops a full batch of cubes into the bin with no new part. If it returns within a week, or the clean light comes back straight after a cleaning cycle, mention that in the booking.
What not to do
The reminder does not mean water has stopped; that would show as Low Water. It also does not replace the cleaning reminder, which runs on its own schedule.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems Filter Replacement Required tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice machine before anyone is booked.
All problems
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
Nothing is broken; the control is reporting a state someone chose or a routine it runs: a clean or sanitize reminder counting the hours since the last cycle, a delay of a few minutes after power returns before the pump and compressor start, a bin-full light while the bin control is satisfied, or a standby or off mode someone chose at the keypad. No part is needed; finishing the cycle the light asks for, waiting out the delay or the key sequence from the manual ends it.
Follett
ice machines.
A Follett visit weighs how chewable ice is made and moved to the bin or the dispenser before looking at any single part.
Follett ice machine repairMore Follett codes
Mode, not a failure on other makes
Modular ice machine
An ice-making head set on top of a separate storage bin or drink dispenser, cooled by air, water or a condenser on the roof, turning out hundreds of pounds of cubes a day.
Undercounter ice machine
A self-contained ice machine that makes and stores its own ice under a bar, a service counter or a kitchen island, from commercial units to clear-ice models in large homes.
Nugget ice machine
An ice machine that freezes a thin layer inside a chilled cylinder and pushes it out with an auger as soft, chewable nuggets, for clinics, offices, hotels and large homes.
In Follett's own words
Filter Replacement Required Maximum 6 month filter replacement
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Champion 7 and Champion 15 dispensers with an internal filter.
Follett Filter Replacement Required ice machine 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 Filter Replacement Required.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Filter Replacement Required?
A booking with a code goes further when it carries the light or code copied as it appeared, the model and serial off the data plate, and a word on whether cubes still fall into the bin. With those three in hand, our office can match the probable part to your machine the same afternoon.