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234 conditions, read from the maker's own paper

Fisher & Paykel error codes, and the machine matters more than the number.

A1 is an overheated oven and a DishDrawer that did not fill. A3 is a door that will not unlock and a drawer that will not drain. On this maker a code belongs to the appliance, not to the badge — so every page here names the machine in its own title, and the first thing to tell us is which one you are looking at.

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  • 234 conditions published
  • 25 with a meaning the maker prints
  • 122 user guides read
  • from $95 diagnostic, credited to the repair

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Type what the display is showing

Partial entries work, and letters matter here — FDOR is not F. If your machine has no display at all, describe the pattern of flashing lights instead and start from the symptom pages.

The same number belongs to more than one machine on this maker, so the results name the appliance as well as the code. Nothing here is invented: where the maker publishes a family of conditions rather than a meaning, the page publishes the family and says so.

How to read one

A letter, a number, and a machine. All three are the code.

This maker uses a letter to say what kind of condition it is and a number to identify it — but the same letter and number mean different things on different appliances, because each machine carries its own table. Reading a code without knowing the machine is reading somebody else's problem.

Reading A3

We publish what the maker publishes. Where it prints a meaning, the page has one. Where it prints a family — "temperature sensor errors: F3, F4, F5" — the page says the family and stops. Inventing the rest would make these pages look fuller and make them wrong.

The shapes this maker writes

  • A1 A letter and a small number. Alert conditions on ovens, ranges and DishDrawers, most with published steps
  • F212 F and three digits, on ovens. Around sixty of them, grouped into four families with no individual meanings
  • Er22 Er and two digits, on induction cooktops. A different alphabet again, and also published as families
  • FDOR Letters instead of digits, on ovens. These four — FPOT, FDOR, FAdc, FrEL — do have meanings
  • 5 beeps On refrigeration there is often no display at all. The machine counts beeps and flashes an LED, and the count is the number

How many conditions each machine publishes

Ovens 68 conditions — three with meanings, four lettered ones with meanings, and around sixty F numbers grouped into families
Freezers 47 conditions across five families, all of which the maker says need a technician
Dishwashers 36 conditions, and they split in two: the DishDrawer alphabet and the drop-door one, which are not the same
Refrigerators 35 conditions, reported by counting beeps or reading an LED rather than on a screen
Wine cabinets 31 conditions in four families, with no owner-side reset published for any of them
Cooktops 13 conditions, and not one of them comes from a user guide — no cooktop guide carries a code chapter at all
Ranges 4 conditions: the same short alert list as the wall ovens

There is no laundry row here and there will not be one until there is a source for it. This maker lists no washer or dryer for the United States and publishes no code table for either, and a table copied from somewhere else that turned out to describe a different machine would cost you a visit.

234 conditions, of which 25 carry a meaning the maker actually prints. The rest are published as families, and those pages say so in their first paragraph rather than filling the space with a checklist. That is the honest shape of this maker's documentation, and it is worth knowing before you trust a longer list somewhere else.

Browse every condition

No number on the display, or no display at all? A great deal of this equipment reports without one. A DishDrawer flashes a pattern of program lights; a refrigerator counts beeps; a cooktop shows a bare E or Er. Those live under symptoms rather than codes, and the symptom pages are written for exactly that case.

Where these came from

Read off 122 user guides, because the web pages are gone.

This maker used to publish its codes on a public support wiki. That site now redirects to a login page, and the knowledge base behind it is closed. So the codes on this site were read somewhere else: the English User Guide of every machine in the current US line, downloaded from the maker’s own document library and read as text. 122 guides, 57 of them carrying a chapter of codes, reducing to seven distinct tables.

The rest came from the maker’s own support articles, which publish codes as families rather than one by one. Both sources are the manufacturer’s. Neither is an aggregator, and nothing here was inferred from a sibling brand.

What we repair
Three thick unbranded printed manuals fanned open on a white stone counter beside a pencil and a pair of reading glasses, pages blurred beyond legibility, bright daylight from a window to the left.

Before you clear it

Four things worth doing while the code is still on the screen

A code is evidence, and on this maker it is evidence that disappears the moment the machine is switched off.

Write it down exactly

  • Letters included — on this maker the letter carries half the information
  • FDOR is not F
  • A photograph is easier than transcribing

Note which machine, and which part of it

  • Which drawer on a double DishDrawer, which cavity on a double oven
  • Which zone on a triple-zone freezer

On a DishDrawer, photograph the lights

  • There is no number to write down
  • The pattern of flashing indicators is the code, and it goes when the machine is switched off

On refrigeration, count

  • The maker's own instruction is to count the beeps, or count along the LED panel to the flashing light
  • Five beeps is F5

By machine

Start with the appliance, then the number

Because on this maker the machine decides what the number means. Pick yours and the codes below it are the ones that belong to it.

  • A flush black induction cooktop set into a dark stone worktop, photographed from a low angle along the surface, the glass clean and reflecting daylight, no zone lit and no markings visible.
    Induction · SmartZone · Gas · Rangetops · Teppanyaki · Electric · 12" · 24" · 30" · 36" · 48"

    Cooktops and rangetops

    Forty-six machines and four different technologies under one word: seventeen induction cooktops, thirteen sealed gas, eleven professional rangetops, three electric and two teppanyaki plates. A rangetop is the top half of a professional range with nothing underneath it — the same grates, the same burners, the same repair — which is why it is on this page rather than a page of its own.

    Cooktop repair
  • A double dish drawer dishwasher built into a pale kitchen run, the upper drawer pulled fully open with its flat lid raised clear of the tub, the empty basket dry, bright coastal daylight from the left.
    Single DishDrawer · Double DishDrawer · Tall · Drop door · Integrated · Series 5 · 7 · 9 · 11 · 24"

    Dishwashers and DishDrawers

    Fifty-one machines, and forty of them are drawers. The DishDrawer is this maker's own invention and nothing else in a South Florida kitchen works the way it does: a lid that seals under motor pressure instead of a door, a wash system per drawer, and on a double, two machines that can run — and misbehave — independently of each other.

    Dishwasher repair
  • A front-loading dryer with the door open showing the empty ribbed drum lit from inside and the lint filter half withdrawn from its slot, a laundry basket on the floor, bright daylight.
    Vented · Condenser · Heat pump · Stacked · AeroCare · Laundry closets

    Dryers

    The same situation as the washers: Fisher & Paykel lists no dryer for the United States today, and the ones in South Florida laundry rooms are still working and still repairable. What is worth knowing before you call is which kind you have — vented, condenser or heat pump — because the three fail in completely different places, and only one of them is about a duct.

    Dryer repair
  • A tall integrated freezer column with two interior drawers pulled out to show frosted packets and a full ice bin, the door held open, white kitchen behind, cold blue interior light.
    Integrated column freezers · Triple zone · Ice maker · 18" · 24" · 30" · Series 9 · Series 11

    Freezers

    Eight machines, and every one of them is an Integrated column meant to stand beside a refrigerator column behind matching cabinet fronts. Seven of the eight carry an ice maker, and one is a triple-zone machine with three independently controlled compartments. That is the whole row, and this card would rather say so than pad it.

    Freezer repair
  • A freestanding professional range in brushed stainless with a row of heavy stainless control knobs along its front, set in a bright coastal kitchen with pale timber cabinets, no flame lit.
    Professional gas · Dual fuel · Induction · Classic · 4 · 5 · 6 · 8 burner · Griddle · 30" · 36" · 48"

    Ranges

    Forty-one freestanding ranges, and the split tells you what this maker is: sixteen dual fuel, fifteen gas, seven induction and one electric. Twenty-seven of them are Professional — heavy grates, dual-flow burners, four to eight of them, and on the larger machines a griddle let into the top. On a 48-inch range, "the oven is not heating" means one of two ovens, and which one narrows the part before anybody drives anywhere.

    Range repair
  • A tall integrated refrigerator column standing open in a bright coastal kitchen, glass shelves neatly filled with vegetables and glass bottles, cool even interior light, pale oak cabinetry either side.
    Integrated columns · French door · Quad door · CoolDrawer · Series 5 · 7 · 9 · 11 · 24" · 30" · 32" · 36"

    Refrigerators

    Fifty-one machines in the current line, and twenty-four of them are Integrated — built into the cabinetry behind your own door panels rather than standing in an opening. Columns that pair a refrigerator with a freezer beside it, French door and quad door machines that stand on the floor, and the CoolDrawer, a drawer that can be run as anything from a freezer to a chiller.

    Refrigerator repair
  • A built-in wall oven with a flush handleless front of dark glass set in a tall pale oak column, the door closed and the glass clean and reflecting a bright coastal kitchen.
    Self-cleaning · Combi-steam · Convection speed · Double · Minimal · Contemporary · Professional · 24" · 30"

    Wall ovens

    The largest row on this site: a hundred and ten wall ovens, and a third of them cook with steam. Forty-five are self-cleaning ovens, thirty-eight are combi-steam machines, twenty-eight are compact convection-speed ovens with a microwave system inside them, and six are doubles. A steam oven is a plumbed appliance with a boiler in it, and it does not fail the way an oven fails.

    Oven repair
  • A front-loading washing machine and dryer standing side by side in a bright white utility room, the washer door swung open on its empty stainless drum, folded towels on the counter above.
    SmartDrive top loaders · Front loaders · WashSmart · AquaSmart · Stacked pairs

    Washing machines

    Read this first: Fisher & Paykel no longer lists a washing machine for the United States. Its US support site has a laundry section with nothing in it, and the Products menu has no fabric care in it at all. The machines are still here — South Florida laundry rooms are full of them — and the maker still sells laundry parts and stacking kits. We repair the ones that are here, and we would rather tell you where the line falls than let you find out at the parts stage.

    Washer repair
  • An integrated wine cabinet with a glass door under a pale stone worktop, dark timber racking behind the glass holding bottles on their sides, the interior lit cool and even.
    Integrated wine cabinets · Column wine · Beverage centers · Dual zone · 24" · Series 9 · Series 11

    Wine cabinets and beverage centers

    Five machines: integrated wine cabinets, a full-height column wine cabinet, and two beverage centers. They are on one page because they are one repair — the same compressor, the same door seal, the same sensors and the same electronics, in a cabinet that happens to be holding bottles rather than cans.

    Wine cooler repair
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When there is no number at all

A code is not the whole diagnosis, and it is not the limit of what we repair.

Most of what goes wrong on this equipment never produces a number: a burner that will not hold a simmer, a drawer that will not open, a wine cabinet two degrees warm, a dryer that has quietly got slower.

If your machine is misbehaving without saying anything, describe it in your own words when you book — that is most of our work.

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About these codes

The questions this archive is asked

Why does my code have no meaning on your page?

Because the manufacturer does not publish one. On its ovens it groups around sixty F numbers into four families and prints a single instruction for all of them; on refrigeration, freezers, wine cabinets and induction cooktops it does the same. We publish the family and say so. A table that assigned a specific meaning to each number would look more useful and would be invented, and an invented code meaning costs you a visit.

Another site lists a meaning for every number. Are they wrong?

They are certainly not reading it off this maker's own paper, because this maker does not print it. Some of those lists are other brands' tables with the badge changed, which on a maker as unusual as this one — a dishwasher that is a drawer, refrigeration that reports by beeping — is a good way to arrive at the wrong part.

The same code appears on two of my appliances.

Then they are two different conditions. A1 is an overheated oven and a DishDrawer that did not fill; A3 is an oven door that will not unlock and a drawer that will not drain. This is the single most important thing to know about this maker's codes, and it is why every page here names the machine in its title.

Can I just reset it?

Often, and the maker publishes how: power off at the supply, wait — one minute for most conditions, five for the lettered oven ones — then restart. What matters is what happens next. A code that stays away was a control that locked up; a code that returns immediately is the machine reporting something it can still see, and that is a real condition rather than a glitch. Either way, write it down before you clear it.

Why is there nothing here for my older machine?

Because the maker's US support base lists only machines it still sells — every model in it has at least one finish still current. The DishDrawer generations of the 2000s and the SmartDrive laundry are not in it, so there is no first-party table for them to read. We would rather say that than publish something we cannot stand behind. Tell us what the machine is doing and we will work from that.

Do you charge to read a code?

No. Tell us the code and the machine when you book and we will narrow it on the phone at no cost. What is charged is the diagnostic visit, from $95, and it is credited toward the repair when you go ahead.

In more detail

Where these 234 conditions come from, and why most of them arrive as families

The maker’s own web pages for this are gone

The address that used to publish this maker’s error codes now redirects to a marketing site, and the knowledge base behind it asks for a login on every article. So this archive was not copied from a page; it was read off 122 of the maker’s own English user guides, downloaded as PDFs, plus its public support data and the 150 troubleshooting articles it wrote about its own machines. Fifty-seven of those guides carry a chapter of codes, and between them those chapters reduce to seven distinct tables.

Twenty-five carry a printed meaning. The other 209 are published as families

That is the honest shape of this maker’s documentation, and it is worth knowing before you trust a longer list somewhere else. Where a guide prints “temperature sensor errors — F3, F4, F5”, we publish that as a family and the page says so in its first paragraph. What we do not do is invent a specific meaning for F4 because a page needed one. A code page that is confidently wrong costs you a part, and then a visit.

The number belongs to the machine, not to the badge

This is the single most useful thing to understand about this maker’s codes. A1 is an oven that has overheated and a DishDrawer that did not take water. A3 is a door that will not unlock and a drawer that will not drain. Every page in this archive names the appliance in its title for that reason, and the search above returns the appliance beside the code rather than the code alone.

And a great deal of this equipment has no number at all

A DishDrawer has no display: it flashes a pattern of program and modifier lights, and that pattern is the code. A refrigerator counts beeps and lights an LED — the maker’s own instruction is to count them, because five beeps is F5. An induction cooktop can show a bare E with nothing after it, and not one of this maker’s forty-six cooktop guides carries a code table of any kind. If your machine is telling you something without a number, the symptom pages are the main road rather than the fallback.

Tell us the code and the machine it is on.

Both halves matter on this maker. You will have the scope and the price in writing before anything is opened.

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This article is based on:

  • Official manufacturer documentation
  • Internal repair procedures
  • Technician repair history
  • Company quality standards
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