Viking Ice and Drain lamps blinking: the air sensor at the condenser reads open or shorted
The machine measures the air entering the condenser to adjust how it runs.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Sensors and bin control
- Ice machine bin control repair
- Source: Viking
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What ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking
actually means.
The machine measures the air entering the condenser to adjust how it runs. When that sensor reads as an open or shorted circuit, the control stops and blinks the Ice and Drain lamps until the sensor is repaired.
Viking ice machine display · also shown as Air temperature sensor error
What to do when ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking shows on the ice machineKind of codeSensors and bin control
A sensor is telling the board something that is not true: a bin control that reads full on an empty bin, or empty while ice spills over the top, a curtain switch stuck open, a temperature sensor out of range, or an eye on a dispenser that no longer sees the cup. Scale and slime on a probe or an ultrasonic sensor cause much of it. Clearing ice piled against the bin control is a safe first step; testing and replacing a sensor is a technician's.
Usually leads toIce machine bin control repair
The thermostat bulb, paddle, curtain switch or electronic eye that senses a full bin, adjusted or replaced so the machine stops and restarts on time.
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.
MakeViking
A Viking ice machine call covers the panel-ready install, the drain and the water side before the cooling system is looked at.
SourceViking FNIU515D nugget ice machine Install / Use & Care manual
Viking FNIU515D nugget ice machine.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Viking's own guidance for ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking on its ice machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Turn the machine off and on once.
Check that nothing has been pushed into the lower front grille where the condenser air enters.
If the pattern returns, book a visit for a sensor test.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice machine bin control repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
This is a sensor circuit report, not a dirty condenser, although the sensor sits in the same area. It is not a drain problem either, despite the Drain lamp blinking.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice machine before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking usually leads
Ice machine bin control repair.
Viking
ice machines.
A Viking ice machine call covers the panel-ready install, the drain and the water side before the cooling system is looked at.
Viking ice machine repairMore Viking codes
Sensors and bin control on other makes
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 Viking's own words
When the air temperature sensor in front of the condenser is disconnected or shorted
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Viking FNIU515D nugget ice machine.
Viking ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking ice machine repair,
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Questions
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Where is the air temperature sensor on a Viking nugget ice machine?
Can cleaning the condenser fix the Viking Ice and Drain pattern?
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Back to your everyday
Still showing ICE and DRAIN lamps blinking?
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.