KitchenAid cooktop
showing FC RF
FC RF tells you where to look: KitchenAid points to the right front hotplate or the wiring feeding it.
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What FC RF
actually means.
FC RF tells you where to look: KitchenAid points to the right front hotplate or the wiring feeding it. On a radiant cooktop that is the element under the glass at that position.
KitchenAid cooktop display
What to do when FC RF shows on the cooktopKind of codeRadiant elements
A ribbon element under the glass, or a coil on an older top, did not heat the way its control asked, or kept heating past the setting. The pan, the infinite switch or touch relay behind it and the wiring to the terminal block come first; the element and its temperature limiter follow. A zone that will not switch off means the breaker goes off before anything else.
Usually leads toRadiant element repair
Zones under a smooth glass cooktop that stay dark, heat weakly or cut out, traced to the ribbon element, its limiter or the relay that feeds it.
Shows up asCooktop Element Not Heating
A coil stays black, a radiant ring under the glass never glows, or a zone warms so weakly that a pot of water will not boil.
MakeKitchenAid
A Whirlpool brand with cooktops aimed at people who cook often.
SourceKitchenAid Product Help: FC RF, electric cooktop
KitchenAid electric cooktops.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from KitchenAid's own guidance for FC RF on its cooktops. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Turn the cooktop off and switch the breaker off for one minute.
Restore power and watch the display.
If FC RF returns, leave the right front zone off and book a visit.
What not to do
FC RF does not mean the whole cooktop is failing. It names one position.
What you may
notice with it.
The cooktop problems FC RF tends to arrive with. Answer these at the cooktop before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where FC RF usually leads
Radiant element repair.
KitchenAid
cooktops.
A Whirlpool brand with cooktops aimed at people who cook often.
KitchenAid cooktop repairMore KitchenAid codes
Radiant elements on other makes
Gas cooktop
A gas cooking surface dropped into a countertop cutout, with its gas line and power cord running down into the cabinet underneath.
Electric cooktop
A coil or smooth-glass radiant cooking surface built into the countertop and wired to its own circuit in the cabinet or wall behind it.
Induction cooktop
A glass cooktop in the counter that heats the pan itself through magnetic coils, run by power boards and cooled by a fan underneath.
In KitchenAid's own words
There may be a problem with the right front Hotplate (Cooking Surface/Burner/Element), or the associated wiring.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. KitchenAid electric cooktops.
KitchenAid FC RF cooktop repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about FC RF.
Can I clear FC RF myself?
Which zone is FC RF on a KitchenAid cooktop?
Can I use the other three zones?
Does FC RF mean the KitchenAid right front element has burned out?
Back to your everyday
Still showing FC RF?
Book with the code copied exactly, the full model number, and whether there is any smell of gas or burning — with a code in hand, that is where the diagnosis starts.