Viking lamps flickering in turn: the nugget ice machine is due for cleaning
After a total of 6 months of icemaking, the nugget machine starts this rolling flicker and keeps it up until the cleaning function is run.
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- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Viking
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What Lamps flicker twice in sequence
actually means.
After a total of 6 months of icemaking, the nugget machine starts this rolling flicker and keeps it up until the cleaning function is run. The cycle itself takes about 10 minutes of automatic cleaning plus a rinse, and the flicker stops when it is finished.
Viking ice machine display · also shown as Cleaning signal, ICE, NO WATER, DRAIN flickering in turn
What to do when Lamps flicker twice in sequence 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
Mix 2 ounces of Viking Ice Machine Cleaner into two quarts of water; Viking allows no other cleaner.
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. The older FGNI515 nugget and FGIM5151 clear-ice models use a Time to Clean light instead.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Viking's own guidance for Lamps flicker twice in sequence on its ice machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Mix 2 ounces of Viking Ice Machine Cleaner into two quarts of water; Viking allows no other cleaner.
Set the mode switch to OFF, then after 30 seconds open the door and add about a quart of the solution into the ice spout.
Follow the manual through the clean and rinse steps and switch back to ICE; if the lamps keep flickering after the full cycle, 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 rolling flicker is not an Er code; the lamps take turns rather than blinking together. The machine also keeps making ice while the signal shows.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems Lamps flicker twice in sequence 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.
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
Mode, not a failure 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
On the display, the ice, no water, and drain lamps each flicker twice sequentially.
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. The older FGNI515 nugget and FGIM5151 clear-ice models use a Time to Clean light instead.
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Still showing Lamps flicker twice in sequence?
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.