Viking electric cooktop
showing Fc
Fc on a Viking Designer electric cooktop means over temperature.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Temperature and overheat sensors
- Induction board and coil repair
- Source: Viking
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What Fc
actually means.
Fc on a Viking Designer electric cooktop means over temperature. The control checks its own temperature and stops all activity if its inner parts overheat, then waits for the cooktop to cool.
Viking cooktop display
What to do when Fc shows on the cooktopKind of codeTemperature and overheat sensors
A sensor under the glass or on a board reported a reading the control rejected, or heat climbing past the safe limit — often after an empty pan was left on a zone. The zone is allowed to cool and a loose sensor plug is ruled out before the sensor, the coil assembly or the board is blamed. A top that keeps getting hotter is switched off at the breaker first.
Usually leads toInduction board and coil repair
Induction zones that stop sensing pans, cut out, buzz or show codes, traced to the power boards, the coils, their sensors and the links to the controls.
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.
MakeViking
A Mississippi maker of pro-style kitchens whose US site lists both cooktops and rangetops.
SourceViking Designer electric cooktop use and care manual, Error Codes
Viking Designer built-in electric cooktops with touch controls, per the use and care manual F20699. Other Viking cooktops use different displays.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Viking's own guidance for Fc on its cooktops. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Switch the elements off and let the cooktop cool down.
Make sure nothing hot, such as a pan pushed back from a zone, sits over the controls.
Book a visit if Fc returns during normal cooking.
Still there?
It usually turns into induction board and coil repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
Fc is not the sensor failure code FE. Here the sensor is working and reporting real heat.
What you may
notice with it.
The cooktop problems Fc tends to arrive with. Answer these at the cooktop before anyone is booked.
All problems
Cooktop Element Not Heating
6 causes, cheapest first
Where Fc usually leads
Induction board and coil repair.
Viking
cooktops.
A Mississippi maker of pro-style kitchens whose US site lists both cooktops and rangetops.
Viking cooktop repair
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 Viking's own words
Fc Over temperature
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Viking Designer built-in electric cooktops with touch controls, per the use and care manual F20699. Other Viking cooktops use different displays.
Viking Fc 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.
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Does Fc on a Viking Designer electric cooktop clear once the top cools?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Fc?
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.