Error code
U-Line: The display is showing CL
U-Line — an indicator rather than a code. This one is searched and undocumented, and saying so is the honest answer.
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What we can confirm
Code CL on the display of an ice maker, 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
CL on the display of an ice maker
This one is searched and undocumented, and saying so is the honest answer. CL appears in none of the forty-four U-Line manuals read for this site as something a display shows — the letters occur only inside part numbers, and the closest documented string is CLR, which flashes while the error log is being cleared in the service menu. So: people are seeing something, we can describe where the letters legitimately come from, and we are not going to invent a meaning for them.
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What it narrows down to
This one is searched and undocumented, and saying
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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 display is showing CL
What the appliance is actually doing
This one is searched and undocumented, and saying so is the honest answer. CL appears in none of the forty-four U-Line manuals read for this site as something a display shows — the letters occur only inside part numbers, and the closest documented string is CLR, which flashes while the error log is being cleared in the service menu. So: people are seeing something, we can describe where the letters legitimately come from, and we are not going to invent a meaning for them.
Quoted rather than interpreted
To clear errors, press and hold (5 seconds) when CLR is flashing.
From 15: CLEAR ERROR LOG, 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 CL or CLR, and whether it is steady or flashing. CLR flashing means somebody is in the service menu clearing the error log — hold the light key for five seconds and it completes.
- If it is CL on an ice machine, treat it as a cleaning prompt until proven otherwise. That is what the letters would mean on most makes, the nugget machines here signal for cleaning by other means, and running the cleaning cycle harms nothing.
- Do not take a decoded CL table off a search result for this make. This is the brand whose codes were invented wholesale once already.
- If it persists after a cleaning cycle, have the log read properly. Whatever the display is abbreviating, the board's own list is the place it will be written in full.
Where this goes next
The job this usually becomes is control board and display 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 cl code is a real search with no documented answer, and the useful page is the one that says which parts of it are known.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards