Viking electric cooktop
showing FE
FE on a Viking Designer electric cooktop is a temperature sensor failure.
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- Temperature and overheat sensors
- Induction board and coil repair
- Source: Viking
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What FE
actually means.
FE on a Viking Designer electric cooktop is a temperature sensor failure. The control watches its own working temperature, and when the sensor reading makes no sense it stops the elements and shows FE. Viking lists Ft with the same meaning.
Viking cooktop display
What to do when FE 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 FE on its cooktops. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Turn the cooktop off and let it cool.
Switch the breaker off for a minute and back on, then test one element.
Book a visit if FE or Ft comes back.
Still there?
It usually turns into induction board and coil repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
FE is not the overheating code; that is a lowercase c, Fc. FE says the sensor itself is not reading correctly.
What you may
notice with it.
The cooktop problems FE tends to arrive with. Answer these at the cooktop before anyone is booked.
All problems
Cooktop Element Not Heating
6 causes, cheapest first
Where FE 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
FE, Ft Temperature sensor failure
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 FE 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 FE.
Can I clear FE myself?
What is the difference between FE and Fc on my Viking cooktop?
Can I still use my Viking cooktop with FE showing?
Why does a Viking Designer electric cooktop show Ft instead of FE?
Back to your everyday
Still showing FE?
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.