--- title: "Dacor error codes, and which era yours belongs to." description: "68 documented codes across two eras that share not one string — 41 from before the 2016 acquisition and 27 from after it." url: "https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/" date_modified: "2026-09-12" --- # Dacor error codes, by era ## Dacor error codes, and which era yours belongs to. The same characters mean different things on different Dacor appliances. F2 is a runaway heat condition on a Classic ERC oven, a communication problem on an ER-series range, and a touch-controller failure on a Modernist induction cooktop. Every page here names the appliance and the era before it gives a meaning. 68 — documented codes 41 — from before 2016 27 — from the current platform 23 — circulating codes refused ## By appliance and era Type what the panel shows and the index will find it. If nothing matches, check the model first — the same string belongs to more than one table on this make. Five of this make's ten appliances publish no codes at all. If yours is one of them, the symptom pages are the honest place to start. ## Two eras, and not one code string in common Before September 2016, Dacor built its own control boards and its own problem tables: F0 to F8 on the Classic ERC ovens and ranges, F1 to F95 on the ER-series ranges, F-1 to F-9 on the EDW and IDW dishwashers. After it, the machines run the Samsung platform and report C-## on ovens and ranges and #C strings on dishwashers. Which era an appliance is from decides the code table, the control board and the part number. ## The same string, three different meanings F1 is a bake-and-broil watchdog failure on a Classic ERC oven, a general internal problem on an ER-series range, and an EEPROM communication failure on a Modernist induction cooktop. A table that gives one meaning without naming the appliance and the era is guessing, and a search that returns three contradictory answers is the reason people give up and call somebody who also guesses. ## Establish the era first How to tell - The model and serial on the rating plate settle it outright. - Roughly when the kitchen was fitted, if the plate is unreachable. - An F-number with a dash — F-4 — is the legacy dishwasher platform. Then read the display exactly - Including the dash, the letter case and any leading C. - A code that appears and clears is as useful as one that stays. - Photograph it rather than remembering it — a second press can clear it. ## Start from the problem instead 5 of this make's ten appliances publish no codes at all, and those problems are written out in words. ## 23 codes that circulate and are not real FAN-FAIL and NO-LIGHT for the hoods. TEMP-HI and COMP-ERR for the wine column. 5E, 21E, 22E and 41E for the refrigeration. F0 and F1 for the microwaves, copied word for word from this make’s own wall-oven table. Every one of them appears on appliance sites as a Dacor code, and not one has a manufacturer document behind it — several are directly contradicted by Dacor’s own manuals, which document the same symptoms in plain English. ## The questions this page is asked My code is not on this list. — Then either it belongs to an appliance this make publishes nothing for — in which case the symptom pages are the honest place to start — or it is one of the strings we refuse to publish because no manufacturer document supports it. Tell us what it says and we will say plainly which of those it is. Why does the same code mean two things? — Because two entirely different engineering teams built these appliances twenty years apart, and both reached for the same characters. Dacor's own pre-2016 boards used F-numbers; the Samsung platform that replaced them uses C-## and #C strings and, on the induction cooktops, a short F-series of its own. The overlap is a coincidence of notation, not a shared meaning. Can I clear a code and carry on? — It depends entirely which one. A stuck-key code or a pairing prompt clears and means nothing. A high-temperature code, a leak-detection code or a locked door on a hot cavity should not be cleared and re-run — in those cases the appliance stopping itself is the good news, and each page says which kind you are holding. ## Where these came from, and what is missing ### Seven primary documents Dacor’s own Tec-Line problem sheet, the ER-series technical manual, the Modernist wall oven, Pro range, induction cooktop and dishwasher manuals, the EDW/IDW service manual and the CM24 coffee manual. Every code on this site traces to one of them. ### 5 appliances that publish nothing Refrigeration, freezer, wine, hood and microwave. Their manuals contain named alarms or plain-English troubleshooting and no code table at all. We say so rather than borrowing a table from a sister appliance or from the parent company. ### What we would not claim Where a source could not be found, or where a collection’s control generation could not be dated, this site says so. That is the whole difference between a research pass and a page assembled from search results. ## Not sure which of these it is? Describe what the appliance is doing and tell us roughly how old the kitchen is, and we will tell you which page you are on. If a diagnostic is the right next step it is from $95, credited toward the repair. --- **[Read full article: Dacor error codes, by era](https://dacormiami.support/error-codes-archive/)**