What do all the light colors on the Ninja Blast actually mean?

[Thomas Martinez]

While looking into the Ninja Blast indicator lights for a quick reference, I found this information and decided to share. These blender indicators use a variety of color and not all of them are readily available in the blender manuals.
Yellow indicates low battery, red means very low battery (both mean the blender will soon die), flashing green means it’s charging, solid green means fully charged. Orange means the blade is blocked, white means the jar isn’t properly seated into the blender, and purple indicates that the blender is in blend mode. The orange light is the one I noticed most as I often load it too full or with too many frozen items.
The white light indicates the jar isnt properly seated into the blender. When I first got mine it took me a while to realize that the blender would trip when I would try to use it because I would not provide it the proper quarter-turn for the jar to properly lock into place.
Its rather amusing as to how many different colors they use on such a relatively inexpensive blender as opposed to the one light blenders come with. How many of you have experienced any other colored indicators different than those listed above?

 

[Gorgeous Gerbil]

the orange blade blocked one got me twice in the first week. You realy cant pack frozen berries in there without a splash of liquid first, the motor just nopes out

 

[Tense Tuatara]

Mine flashes red and purple alternating sometimes when I push the button right after a charge. Not really sure what that means though. The manual does not indicate this as being an available mode.

 

[Breakable Baboon]

Honestly half of these blender companies makes such a big deal about the different colored indicators for their products when it doesnt matter the least. One light and blink codes indicate the status of the product, not a rainbow of colors to indicate different features.

 

[Save Yourself]

The white light indicator for the blender not properly sitting in place gets people all the time. I actualy had someone that came in convinced their blender was defective for a week who just needed an extra quarter-turn of twist in place.

 

[The Grea]

wait does the purple light stay on while blending or does it pulse? Mine seems to pulse when I use heavy loads in the blender.

 

[Important Iguana]

yellow means low battery is a bit generous for mine, I’ve had it go from yellow to dead in 2 blends.

 

[Gorgeous Gerbil]

Mine flashes red and purple alternating sometimes when I push the button right after a charge. Not really sure what that means though. The manual does not indicate this as being an available mode.

That sounds like the BMS is throwing a fault code. It might be an issue with the battery not balancing properly right after the blender is charged.
try draining it all the way down then doing a full uninterrupted charge and see if it clears

 

[Scottish Bible Basketb]

Mine flashes red and purple alternating sometimes when I push the button right after a charge. Not really sure what that means though. The manual does not indicate this as being an available mode.

You're definately overthinking this. Its a 20 dollar smoothie cup with a motor in it not a tesla. Just shake the jar and try again lol

 

[Tense Tuatara]

That sounds like the BMS is throwing a fault code. It might be an issue with the battery not balancing properly right after the blender is charged.
try draining it all the way down then doing a full uninterrupted charge and see if it clears

yeah I'll try the full drain thing tonight. Its doing it maybe once every five uses since it was fine for the first two months

 

[Impossible Ibex]

had one cycle of yellow orange yellow orange and a chunk of frozen mango got wedged under the blade hub. Turned it off, popped the cup and retrieved the chunk with a chopstick. Fine ever since. So the yellow/orange cycling means the safety switch is fighting with itself

 

[The Grea]

so does anyone know if you can use the blast jar with a regular usb-c pd charger or does it have to be the cable that came with it? I lost the cable and