U-Line nugget ice machine with only the ICE lamp blinking (Er03)
Er03 is the early version of the warm-evaporator check: 10 minutes after ice making starts, the evaporator should already be below freezing.
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- Cooling system
- Ice machine compressor and sealed system repair
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What Er03
actually means.
Er03 is the early version of the warm-evaporator check: 10 minutes after ice making starts, the evaporator should already be below freezing. U-Line groups it with Er01 and asks for the cooling problem to be fixed before power is restored.
U-Line ice machine display · also shown as ICE lamp blinking
What to do when Er03 shows on the ice machineKind of codeCooling system
The board saw temperatures or pressures that the sealed system should never reach: a discharge line too hot, a suction side that never cools, or a compressor that starts and stops on its overload. A dirty condenser can push a healthy system into this family, so it is the first thing to rule out; a low charge, a leak or a tired compressor is not. On many current machines that system holds R-290, which is flammable, and only a technician opens it.
Usually leads toIce machine compressor and sealed system repair
The compressor, its start parts and the sealed system, including machines on flammable R-290, tested for pressure and leaks and repaired by the maker's procedure.
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.
MakeU-Line
U-Line ice machine visits in a home bar start at the drain, since a slow line affects both the ice and the floor around it.
SourceU-Line URNP115 15-inch nugget ice machine user guide
U-Line 1 Class RNP115 and Outdoor ONP115 nugget ice machines, which report through the ICE, NO WATER and DRAIN lamps beside the light button.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from U-Line's own guidance for Er03 on its ice machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Note the rhythm: an even blink once a second is the wash cycle, and a two-second-on, one-second-off blink is a full bin.
If neither applies, turn the machine off and check that the front grille is clear.
Book a visit so the evaporator temperature and the sensor can be checked.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice machine compressor and sealed system repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
Because the ICE lamp also blinks in the wash cycle and on a full bin, check its rhythm first. Er03 has nothing to do with water or draining, which have lamps of their own.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems Er03 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice machine before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Er03 usually leads
Ice machine compressor and sealed system repair.
U-Line
ice machines.
U-Line ice machine visits in a home bar start at the drain, since a slow line affects both the ice and the floor around it.
U-Line ice machine repairMore U-Line codes
Cooling system on other makes
All 11 codes of this kind
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 U-Line's own words
passed during the ice making (Er03).
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. U-Line 1 Class RNP115 and Outdoor ONP115 nugget ice machines, which report through the ICE, NO WATER and DRAIN lamps beside the light button.
U-Line Er03 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.
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Questions
about Er03.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Er03?
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.