Sub-Zero ice machine CLEAN light flashing: time to add cleaner
The CLEAN key starts a cleaning cycle that begins with a short harvest to clear the evaporator.
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- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
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What CLEAN flashing
actually means.
The CLEAN key starts a cleaning cycle that begins with a short harvest to clear the evaporator. About three minutes in, the green CLEAN light starts flashing; that is the machine asking for cleaner in the first pass and sanitizer in the second. When a pass finishes, the light goes out.
Sub-Zero ice machine display · also shown as CLEAN light flashing green
What to do when CLEAN flashing 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
Empty the ice from the bin before starting, as Sub-Zero's procedure asks.
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.
MakeSub-Zero
Sub-Zero ice machine calls in a home check the drain route and the water line with the same care as the ice itself.
SourceSub-Zero UC-15I undercounter ice machine use and care guide
Sub-Zero UC-15I and UC-15IP, indoor and outdoor, with the POWER, ICE, DELAY, CLEAN and REPLACE FILTER touch panel. The Designer DEU1550I guide could not be read, so it is not covered.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Sub-Zero's own guidance for CLEAN flashing on its ice machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Empty the ice from the bin before starting, as Sub-Zero's procedure asks.
When CLEAN flashes, lift the water shutters and pour in only the Sub-Zero ice machine cleaner, or the sanitizer on the second pass, in the amount the guide gives.
Let the machine finish its cleaning and rinse cycles; each pass takes about 30 minutes, and a power cut means starting the pass again.
If CLEAN keeps flashing long after cleaner has been added, 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
A flashing CLEAN light is a step in a cycle you started, not a warning that the machine is dirty. Sub-Zero asks for cleaning every six months either way, and more often on poor water.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems CLEAN flashing 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.
Sub-Zero
ice machines.
Sub-Zero ice machine calls in a home check the drain route and the water line with the same care as the ice itself.
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Mode, not a failure on other makes
In Sub-Zero's own words
“CLEAN” will illuminate green during the cleaning cycle and will flash to signal time to add cleaner and sanitizer.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Sub-Zero UC-15I and UC-15IP, indoor and outdoor, with the POWER, ICE, DELAY, CLEAN and REPLACE FILTER touch panel. The Designer DEU1550I guide could not be read, so it is not covered.
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Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing CLEAN flashing?
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.