Error code
U-Line: Three lamps on the ice machine flicker twice, over and over
U-Line — an indicator rather than a code. The machine is asking to be cleaned.
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What we can confirm
Code The ice, no water and drain lamps flicker twice in turn, 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 ice, no water and drain lamps flicker twice in turn
The machine is asking to be cleaned. The maker's own description: after a cumulative six months of ice making, the ice, no water and drain lamps each flicker twice sequentially, and the flickering continues until the cleaning function is performed. It is a service reminder on a timer, not a failure — but ignoring it for long enough turns into one, because scale is what stops these machines.
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What it narrows down to
The machine is asking to be cleaned. The
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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: Three lamps on the ice machine flicker twice, over and over
What the appliance is actually doing
The machine is asking to be cleaned. The maker's own description: after a cumulative six months of ice making, the ice, no water and drain lamps each flicker twice sequentially, and the flickering continues until the cleaning function is performed. It is a service reminder on a timer, not a failure — but ignoring it for long enough turns into one, because scale is what stops these machines.
Quoted rather than interpreted
After cumulative 6 months of ice making, the machine will signal that is time to run a cleaning cycle. On the display, the ice, no water, and drain lamps each flicker twice sequentially. The flickering lights continue until the machine's cleaning function is performed.
From Cleaning Signal, 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
- Count the lamps. Three, flickering twice each in turn, is the cleaning signal and nothing else on this machine looks like it.
- Run the cleaning cycle with the maker's own ice machine cleaner. The manual is explicit that other cleaners can damage the machine, and this is one of the places where that warning is worth taking literally — the wrong chemical in a nugget machine reaches the auger and the evaporator.
- The cycle is about ten minutes of automatic cleaning, draining and refilling, and then a rinse. Plan on the machine being out of use for the afternoon.
- In Miami the six-month interval is optimistic if the machine is on hard water. A machine that scales visibly between cycles wants a filter as well as a cleaning.
Where this goes next
The job this usually becomes is ice machine cleaning and descaling, 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.
People searching u line nugget ice maker error code 11 and its neighbors are often looking at this instead — lamps flickering rather than a number.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards