Perlick P1F: a wine zone probe has stopped reading
P1F and P2F are the G5 probe alarms for zone 1 and zone 2.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Temperature sensors
- Wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair
- Source: Perlick
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What P1F
actually means.
P1F and P2F are the G5 probe alarms for zone 1 and zone 2. Perlick asks you to acknowledge the code; if it repeats within a week, service is needed. With a zone probe out, the control cannot hold that zone properly.
Perlick wine cooler display · also shown as P2F
What to do when P1F shows on the wine coolerKind of codeTemperature sensors
The control has lost a believable reading from one of its thermistors: the probe in a zone, the one on the cold plate or coil, or on some models the one watching the room. With no trustworthy number, the cabinet either chills the bottles far below cellar temperature or lets a zone drift warm. A sensor sitting in frost, pinched behind a rack or unplugged during a move is ruled out before a new one is ordered.
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.
MakePerlick
Perlick wine cooler repair for units under the counter or behind the bar that no longer keep a steady temperature.
SourcePerlick G5 User Installation & Operation Manual, Form Z3023 (linked from the G5 Luxe 24-inch wine reserve page)
Perlick G5 Core and G5 Luxe wine reserves with the touch display, single-zone (URS15W, URS24W) and dual-zone (URS24D). Up to ten past alarms stay listed, with date and time stamps, under Alarm History.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Perlick's own guidance for P1F on its wine coolers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Acknowledge the alarm on the display.
Check the zone with a thermometer over the next day.
If P1F or P2F returns within a week, 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
P1F is not a high or low temperature alarm; the zone may still be fine for now. The evaporator probe has its own code, PEF.
What you may
notice with it.
The wine cooler problems P1F tends to arrive with. Answer these at the wine cooler before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where P1F usually leads
Wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair.
Perlick
wine coolers.
Perlick wine cooler repair for units under the counter or behind the bar that no longer keep a steady temperature.
Perlick wine cooler repair
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.
Dual-zone wine cooler
A wine cooler with two separately set compartments, upper and lower or side by side, so reds and whites or a storage zone and a serving zone each keep their own temperature.
In Perlick's own words
P1F Zone 1 Probe Fault
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Perlick G5 Core and G5 Luxe wine reserves with the touch display, single-zone (URS15W, URS24W) and dual-zone (URS24D). Up to ten past alarms stay listed, with date and time stamps, under Alarm History.
Perlick P1F 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.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about P1F.
Can I clear P1F myself?
What does acknowledging P1F do?
Is P2F possible on a single-zone Perlick?
Can the zone still cool with P1F?
Back to your everyday
Still showing P1F?
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.