--- title: "Ranges" description: "Dacor ranges: thirty, thirty-six and forty-eight inches, and dual fuel almost throughout: gas on top, electric in the oven below." url: "https://dacormiami.support/appliances/range/" date_modified: "2026-09-12" Appliance type: "range" --- # Dacor ranges ### The widest table this make ever published The older ER-series ranges report codes from F1 to F95 — far more of them than the current machines, and overlapping with the wall-oven table on the first three. It is the strongest argument for asking the age of an appliance before reading a code, and the reason a general search for one of these numbers returns contradictions. ### Dual fuel, and what it means for a repair Gas above and electric below means two systems in one cabinet, and problems rarely cross between them. A cooktop that is perfect over a dead oven is not a half-broken range; it is one system out of two, and it usually keeps the repair on one side of the machine. ### A griddle is a separate appliance On the largest range the griddle has its own element and its own control, so it can fail alone. Whether it fails from cold or only after it has been up to temperature for a while is the question that decides the part. Dual-fuel at 30, 36 and 48 inches Range repair Dual-fuel at 30, 36 and 48 inches; the 48 carries an integrated griddle The pro range: six burners, self-relighting flame, a seven-inch panel Legacy ER30D, ER36D and ER48D report F1–F95 — the widest table this make has The widest table this make ever published The older ER-series ranges report codes from F1 to F95 — far more of them than the current machines, and overlapping with the wall-oven table on the first three. It is the strongest argument for asking the age of an appliance before reading a code, and the reason a general search for one of these numbers returns contradictions. Dual fuel, and what it means for a repair Gas above and electric below means two systems in one cabinet, and problems rarely cross between them. A cooktop that is perfect over a dead oven is not a half-broken range; it is one system out of two, and it usually keeps the repair on one side of the machine. A griddle is a separate appliance On the largest range the griddle has its own element and its own control, so it can fail alone. Whether it fails from cold or only after it has been up to temperature for a while is the question that decides the part. ### A burner lights and then goes out. On the current pro burners there is a relighting system that is supposed to handle exactly that — a draft, a boil-over, a pan lid dropped across the flame — and a burner that keeps going out is often that system rather than the burner itself. On an older range the same symptom is usually a dirty or wet igniter, and in Miami it is usually salt and humidity that put it there. Both are ordinary repairs; they are simply different parts, and which one depends on the age of the range. ### The range shows F31 and the oven still works. A number in that range belongs to the ER-series table, which means the range predates the 2016 acquisition. That table runs from F1 to F95 and is far wider than anything on the current machines, and a great deal of it is about the oven's temperature sensing rather than an outright failure — which is consistent with an oven that still appears to work. We keep the older documentation precisely because appliances like this one are still in kitchens and still worth repairing. ### The griddle will not hold its temperature. The integrated griddle on the 48-inch range is its own heated surface with its own control, so it can be wrong while every burner beside it is right. That narrows a visit considerably. What we ask first is whether it fails from cold or only after half an hour, because a surface that never gets there and one that drifts after it has are two different problems, and the second is the more common of the two. ### Is it worth repairing a range from 2010? Usually yes, and we will tell you when it is not. These are heavy, well-built machines with a documented code table and a parts history, and the common failures — igniters, sensors, relays, a door hinge — are ordinary. What we will not do is pretend that every part is still available. Where something is genuinely obsolete we say so before the visit rather than after, so the decision is yours and not a surprise on the invoice. --- **[Read full article: Ranges](https://dacormiami.support/appliances/range/)**