Frigidaire red High Temp light on an upright freezer: the food may be warming
Frigidaire's electronic uprights and its single-door freezer with an ice maker light a red HIGH TEMP LED and sound an alarm when the inside rises above a safe temperature.
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What HIGH TEMP light
actually means.
Frigidaire's electronic uprights and its single-door freezer with an ice maker light a red HIGH TEMP LED and sound an alarm when the inside rises above a safe temperature. Common reasons are a door not quite closed, a long door opening or an outage, but a cooling problem gives the same light. Pressing HIGH TEMP resets the alarm on models with that button.
Frigidaire freezer display · also shown as High Temp, red High Temp light
What to do when HIGH TEMP light shows on the freezerKind of codeTemperature and alarms
The freezer measured a cabinet warmer than it should be and said so, sometimes with the highest temperature it reached while nobody was looking. The cause can be as simple as a door left ajar or a long power outage, or as serious as a compressor that stopped. Keep the door or the lid shut and check whether the food is still hard before anything else; the alarm is a warning about the food, not a diagnosis.
Usually leads toFreezer thermostat and temperature control repair
Repairing the dial thermostat or the sensor and control that decide when a freezer cools, so it stops running without end or quitting too early.
Shows up asFreezer Warming Up With Food Inside
The freezer warming up is a race against the clock: frozen packages are softening, drips are forming under the bottom basket, and the question is how long the food can wait.
MakeFrigidaire
Frigidaire freezers repaired wherever they stand, from the garage to the basement to the kitchen.
SourceFrigidaire Freezer use and care guide A16366303, HIGH TEMP
Frigidaire electronic uprights with the Temp and Freeze Boost controls, and the 19 cu. ft. single-door freezer with an ice maker. Manual-defrost uprights with a dial have no alarm light.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Frigidaire's own guidance for HIGH TEMP light on its freezers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Close the door fully and make sure no shelf, bin or package is holding it open.
Check the food and move anything soft to a working freezer or a cooler with ice.
Reset the alarm with the HIGH TEMP button, or follow your manual on models without one, and watch whether it returns.
Book a visit if the light comes back with the door closed and the power steady.
Still there?
It usually turns into freezer thermostat and temperature control repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
The red light says the freezer is warm, not why. A flashing green light on the same kind of upright is a different signal that the freezer is still reaching its setting after start-up.
What you may
notice with it.
The freezer problems HIGH TEMP light tends to arrive with. Answer these at the freezer before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where HIGH TEMP light usually leads
Freezer thermostat and temperature control repair.
Frigidaire
freezers.
Frigidaire freezers repaired wherever they stand, from the garage to the basement to the kitchen.
Frigidaire freezer repairMore Frigidaire codes
Temperature and alarms on other makes
Upright freezer
A tall, freestanding freezer with one front door and shelves or baskets inside, the kind that stands in a garage, a basement or a pantry as the household's second place for frozen food.
Chest freezer
A low, wide box with a lid that lifts from the top, cooled by coils wrapped inside its walls, the long-term freezer of basements, garages and utility rooms.
In Frigidaire's own words
If the temperature increases above a safe temperature range, the red HIGH TEMP LED light will illuminate and the alarm will sound.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Frigidaire electronic uprights with the Temp and Freeze Boost controls, and the 19 cu. ft. single-door freezer with an ice maker. Manual-defrost uprights with a dial have no alarm light.
Frigidaire HIGH TEMP light freezer repair,
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Questions
about HIGH TEMP light.
Can I clear HIGH TEMP light myself?
My Frigidaire upright's High Temp light came on after I loaded groceries. Should I worry?
How do I stop the High Temp alarm on my Frigidaire freezer?
Can a door that isn't level set off the High Temp light on a Frigidaire upright?
Back to your everyday
Still showing HIGH TEMP light?
Book with the code or the alarm pattern written exactly as the freezer shows it, the full model number, and whether the food is still frozen hard — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.