Sub-Zero EC13: the lower wine section is too cold
EC13 is Sub-Zero’s cold temperature alarm for the lower cabinet on both UW undercounter and Classic BW wine storage.
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What EC13
actually means.
EC13 is Sub-Zero’s cold temperature alarm for the lower cabinet on both UW undercounter and Classic BW wine storage. The lower section is running colder than intended, which points at the control, a probe, or a setting.
Sub-Zero wine cooler display · also shown as EC 13
What to do when EC13 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.
MakeSub-Zero
Sub-Zero wine coolers repaired in place, with the collection kept closed and dark until the visit.
SourceSub-Zero answer: Undercounter Wine (UW) error code EC 13
UW undercounter and Classic (formerly Built-In, BW) wine storage.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Sub-Zero's own guidance for EC13 on its wine coolers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the lower zone setting on the display.
Put a thermometer in a glass of water on a lower rack and read it after an hour.
Reset the breaker for 30 seconds, and book a visit if EC13 comes back.
Still there?
It usually turns into wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
EC13 is not the upper section; its cold alarm is EC11. A lower probe that has failed outright shows EC07, not EC13.
What you may
notice with it.
The wine cooler problems EC13 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the wine cooler before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where EC13 usually leads
Wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair.
Sub-Zero
wine coolers.
Sub-Zero wine coolers repaired in place, with the collection kept closed and dark until the visit.
Sub-Zero wine cooler repairMore Sub-Zero 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.
Wine column
A full-height built-in wine cabinet, 18 to 30 inches wide, set flush into tall cabinetry or paired with a matching column, with a glass or panel door and dozens to well over a hundred bottles inside.
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 Sub-Zero's own words
Lower cabinet cold temperature alarm
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. UW undercounter and Classic (formerly Built-In, BW) wine storage.
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Questions
about EC13.
Can I clear EC13 myself?
Why would only the lower zone of my Sub-Zero get too cold?
Is the lower section the colder zone on a Sub-Zero dual-zone wine unit?
Should I move bottles when EC13 appears?
Back to your everyday
Still showing EC13?
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.