Viking electric cooktop
showing Fr
Fr on a Viking Designer electric cooktop is a relay error.
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- Radiant elements
- Radiant element repair
- Source: Viking
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What Fr
actually means.
Fr on a Viking Designer electric cooktop is a relay error. Relays switch power to the radiant elements, so this code points at the switching side rather than the keys or the display.
Viking cooktop display
What to do when Fr 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.
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 Fr on its cooktops. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Switch the cooktop off at the breaker if any element stays hot after being turned off.
Otherwise, cut power for a minute, restore it and test each element.
Book a visit if Fr returns.
What not to do
Fr is not a key problem, and it does not by itself mean an element has burned out. It points at the relays that switch power to the elements.
What you may
notice with it.
The cooktop problems Fr tends to arrive with. Answer these at the cooktop before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Fr usually leads
Radiant element repair.
Viking
cooktops.
A Mississippi maker of pro-style kitchens whose US site lists both cooktops and rangetops.
Viking cooktop repairMore Viking 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 Viking's own words
Fr Relay error
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 Fr cooktop repair,
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Questions
about Fr.
Can I clear Fr myself?
Can a Viking relay error leave an element on?
Why did only one element stop working before Fr showed?
Will the other elements keep working on a Viking Designer cooktop with Fr showing?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Fr?
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.