Container or tray · Philips Fully automatic espresso machines
Philips Fully automatic espresso machines: Coffee grounds container light on
The coffee grounds container is full and needs emptying.
- Which light
- Coffee grounds container symbol
- Colour
- Colour not named by the maker
- Steady or flashing
- Steady
What Philips says to do
- Keep the machine switched ON while you empty it, so it registers the empty container.
- Remove the drip tray, empty the coffee grounds container and put everything back.
From A warning light on my Philips espresso machine is not turning off. This is the Fully automatic espresso machines’s pattern; another Philips machine may use the same light for something else — check the manual for your model.
Other Philips Fully automatic espresso machines lights
Container or tray on other machines
The same need shows up as a different light on each machine — which is why a light cannot be read without the machine.
Sources
Every line on this page comes from Philips’s own documents, read on the date shown. Nothing is taken from third-party manual sites.
- Philips: A warning light on my Philips espresso machine is not turning off — Philips fully automatic espresso machines; the article names EP3347/90, EP4447/90 and EP5544/90 among others. www.usa.philips.com Checked 2026-09-29.