--- title: "Dishwasher error code HC" description: "Dacor dishwasher error code HC: The machine's heating did not behave as expected during a high-temperature phase." url: "https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-hc/" date_modified: "2026-09-12" Appliance type: "dishwasher" --- # Dishwasher error code HC ### What HC means on this make The machine’s heating did not behave as expected during a high-temperature phase. The symptom people report is rarely the code itself — it is cloudy glassware, a load that stays damp, or a sanitize cycle that will not complete. The heater, its thermal protection and the sensor watching the water are the three candidates, and they are told apart by measurement rather than by which is cheapest to replace. ### Where this appears, and which table it belongs to On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all. ### Which machines this one applies to Modernist 24-inch dishwashers. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door. ### What to do about it - Describe the washing result as well as the code — cloudy glass and damp loads point here. - The element is measured for a correct resistance, not merely for continuity. - The thermal cut-out is checked, and if it has opened the reason is found before it is replaced. - A sensor reading warm produces this with a perfectly good heater, so both are tested. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher drying and heat repair](/services/dishwasher-drying-and-heat-repair/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. Modernist 24-inch dishwashers What this one means What HC means on this make The machine’s heating did not behave as expected during a high-temperature phase. The symptom people report is rarely the code itself — it is cloudy glassware, a load that stays damp, or a sanitize cycle that will not complete. The heater, its thermal protection and the sensor watching the water are the three candidates, and they are told apart by measurement rather than by which is cheapest to replace. Where this appears, and which table it belongs to On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all. Which machines this one applies to Modernist 24-inch dishwashers. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door. What to do about it Describe the washing result as well as the code — cloudy glass and damp loads point here. The element is measured for a correct resistance, not merely for continuity. The thermal cut-out is checked, and if it has opened the reason is found before it is replaced. A sensor reading warm produces this with a perfectly good heater, so both are tested. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is dishwasher drying and heat repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Dishwasher error code HC](https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-hc/)**