Error code
U-Line: The DRAIN lamp is lit
U-Line — an indicator rather than a code. The maker's line: lights up to indicate activation of the drain valve.
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What we can confirm
Code The DRAIN lamp is lit, from the manufacturer's own documentation
This code has no number, because this equipment has no display to put one on. The appliance signals it instead — an alarm, a symbol or a pattern of lights — and what it means is recorded in the documentation that ships with it.
The code
The DRAIN lamp is lit
The maker's line: lights up to indicate activation of the drain valve. On its own that is the machine doing its job — the drain valve opens as part of normal operation and during cleaning. It becomes interesting when it stays lit, or when it is lit at the same time as water is appearing where it should not be.
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What it narrows down to
The maker's line: lights up to indicate activation
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What else belongs to the ice machines
On this make a code belongs to the appliance rather than to a product line. These are the other conditions this machine can display, and the models that can show this one — a display often has more than one thing to say, and the model number decides what any of it costs to put right.
Other codes this appliance can display
Door 1, the upper door on a two-door
Door 2 — the lower door of a
Door 2 open. Worth its own page for
Thermistor 1 open. In plain terms, the cabinet
Thermistor 2 open. In plain terms, the evaporator
Thermistor 1 shorted. In plain terms, the cabinet
Thermistor 2 shorted. In plain terms, the evaporator
The drain pump circuit is open. The maker
Thermistor 4 open. In plain terms, the fourth
Thermistor 4 shorted. In plain terms, the same
Water level (tray or reservoir) high. In plain
Water level low. In plain terms, the water
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About U-Line: The DRAIN lamp is lit
What the appliance is actually doing
The maker's line: lights up to indicate activation of the drain valve. On its own that is the machine doing its job — the drain valve opens as part of normal operation and during cleaning. It becomes interesting when it stays lit, or when it is lit at the same time as water is appearing where it should not be.
Quoted rather than interpreted
Drain Lamp: Lights up to indicate activation of the drain valve.
From Control Operation, in a User Guide & Service Manual downloaded from U-Line's own site. Nothing on this page is decoded beyond what that sentence says.
What to do about it
- Note whether it is momentary or constant. A lamp that comes on and goes off is the valve working.
- If it is on constantly, look at the drain side of the machine — the hose, the run to the drain, and on a pumped installation the drain pump itself, which has its own logged error, P1.
- Check the floor and the cabinet base under the unit. A drain problem on a built-in machine shows up as damage to joinery before it shows up as a puddle.
- During a cleaning cycle this lamp is expected. If it is lit alongside the other two flickering, the machine is asking for its cleaning cycle rather than reporting a drain.
Where this goes next
The job this usually becomes is drain pump and drain repair, and every one of those pages carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call (305) 851-2207 and describe what the display is doing before booking anything.
u line ice maker leaking water and a lit drain lamp belong on the same page, because on this machine the drain is where that story usually starts.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards