Maxx Ice Purging Water: the ice machine is draining its water tank
Holding the CLEAN button for six seconds during Water Fill or Cleaning starts the drain function on Intelligent Series machines.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Maxx Ice
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What Purging Water
actually means.
Holding the CLEAN button for six seconds during Water Fill or Cleaning starts the drain function on Intelligent Series machines. The LCD shows Purging Water while the pump empties the water tank, and the message disappears after three minutes.
Maxx Ice ice machine display
What to do when Purging Water 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
Let the three minutes run; the drain stops on its own.
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.
MakeMaxx Ice
A Maxx Ice call opens with the location: room temperature, airflow around the unit and a drain that falls the way it should.
SourceMaxx Ice Intelligent Series MIM150N to MIM320N(H) service and installation manual
Intelligent Series LCD models. LED models show draining with their own light pattern.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Maxx Ice's own guidance for Purging Water on its ice machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Let the three minutes run; the drain stops on its own.
Make sure the drain line or floor drain is taking the water away.
If water backs up around the machine during the purge, switch it off, close the water supply and 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
Purging Water is not a leak alarm and not a stuck drain valve. It is also separate from the automatic purges the machine makes every set number of cycles.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems Purging Water 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.
Maxx Ice
ice machines.
A Maxx Ice call opens with the location: room temperature, airflow around the unit and a drain that falls the way it should.
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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.
In Maxx Ice's own words
The words disappear after 3 minutes and the
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Intelligent Series LCD models. LED models show draining with their own light pattern.
Maxx Ice Purging Water 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 Purging Water.
Can I clear Purging Water myself?
My Maxx Ice says Purging Water and I did not press anything. Why?
Can I change how often a Maxx Ice purges its water?
Should I purge my Maxx Ice before storing it?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Purging Water?
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.