Electrolux H° on the wine cooler display: warm for 6 hours
On the EI24WC15V generation of Electrolux 24-inch wine coolers, the High Temperature alert shows H° and blinks the alert icon once the set temperature has been exceeded for 6 hours.
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- Temperature and alarms
- Wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair
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What H°
actually means.
On the EI24WC15V generation of Electrolux 24-inch wine coolers, the High Temperature alert shows H° and blinks the alert icon once the set temperature has been exceeded for 6 hours. The alerts stay quiet for the first 90 minutes after power on.
Electrolux wine cooler display · also shown as Hº, H
What to do when H° shows on the wine coolerKind of codeTemperature and alarms
The cooler read a zone well away from its setting and raised an alarm, sometimes showing the warmest figure it reached while the house was empty. The reason may be as small as a door left resting on a bottle neck or a long outage, or as serious as cooling that has stopped. Keep the glass door shut and feel a bottle in the middle of the rack before doing anything else; the alarm is a warning about the wine, not a diagnosis.
Usually leads toWine cooler thermostat and sensor repair
Testing and replacing the thermostat or the temperature sensors that tell a wine cooler when to cool, when the cabinet runs too cold, too warm or back and forth.
Shows up asWine Cooler Error Code
A wine cooler error code appears as letters and digits on the display, a flashing temperature, dashes where a number should be or a blinking symbol, sometimes with an alarm tone and sometimes while the cabinet stays perfectly cool.
MakeElectrolux
Electrolux wine coolers serviced in the home, from a cabinet that will not start to one that never stops running.
SourceElectrolux use and care guide A16345301 (EI24WC15V generation)
Electrolux EI24WC15VS 24-inch single-zone wine cooler (use and care guide A16345301). The older EI24WC10QS uses a Temp indicator instead.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Electrolux's own guidance for H° on its wine coolers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Close the door firmly and clear the front grille; the unit breathes only through the front.
Check the cabinet with a thermometer and move your best bottles somewhere cool and dark if it is well above the setting.
Turn off the manual light setting if it is on, since a light left on warms the cabinet.
If H° returns after 24 hours with the door shut and grille clear, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
H° is not the temperature reading and not a Celsius or Fahrenheit sign; it is the alert itself. It does not name a failed part, and a one-time H° after a long door opening or a warm restock is common.
What you may
notice with it.
The wine cooler problems H° tends to arrive with. Answer these at the wine cooler before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where H° usually leads
Wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair.
Electrolux
wine coolers.
Electrolux wine coolers serviced in the home, from a cabinet that will not start to one that never stops running.
Electrolux wine cooler repairMore Electrolux codes
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Undercounter wine cooler
A wine cooler about the height of a base cabinet, built in under the counter of a kitchen, a bar or a butler's pantry, with a glass door, sliding racks and a vented toe grille at the floor.
Freestanding wine cooler
A wine cooler that stands on its own in a dining room, a den or a basement, cooled either by a compressor or by a thermoelectric module, and vented at the back or the sides.
In Electrolux's own words
High Temperature alert shows “Hº” and blinks the alert icon
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Electrolux EI24WC15VS 24-inch single-zone wine cooler (use and care guide A16345301). The older EI24WC10QS uses a Temp indicator instead.
Electrolux H° wine cooler repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
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Questions
about H°.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing H°?
When you book, copy the code or the blink pattern as the display shows it, add the whole model number, and say whether the bottles still feel cool — a code gives the technician a head start.