Viking Ice and No Water lamps blinking: the evaporator sensor reads open or shorted
The control relies on the evaporator outlet sensor to know when freezing is working.
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- Sensors and bin control
- Ice machine bin control repair
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What ICE and NO WATER lamps blinking
actually means.
The control relies on the evaporator outlet sensor to know when freezing is working. With that sensor reading open or shorted, it stops icemaking and blinks these two lamps; Viking calls for checking the sensor and its attachment and restarting after the repair.
Viking ice machine display · also shown as Evaporator temperature sensor error, EVA sensor
What to do when ICE and NO WATER 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 NO WATER 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 to rule out a one-time glitch.
Do not remove panels to reach the sensor; the wiring is live while the machine is plugged in.
If the pattern returns, book a visit for a sensor test and replacement.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice machine bin control repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
This pattern is about a sensor circuit, not about the evaporator being warm or cold. Temperature problems show as Er01, Er03 or Er25 instead.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems ICE and NO WATER lamps blinking tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice machine before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where ICE and NO WATER 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 EVA temperature sensor at the evaporator outlet 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 NO WATER lamps blinking ice machine repair,
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Questions
about ICE and NO WATER lamps blinking.
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Does this Viking pattern mean the compressor is bad?
Will my Viking make ice with the evaporator sensor error?
How is the Viking Ice and No Water pattern different from Er15?
Back to your everyday
Still showing ICE and NO WATER 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.