Viking HIGH TEMP light: the freezer has been too warm for two hours
On 5 Series built-ins, the HIGH TEMP light glows and the alarm sounds once the freezer has been too warm for two hours; the tone stops when the temperature is back to normal.
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What HIGH TEMP
actually means.
On 5 Series built-ins, the HIGH TEMP light glows and the alarm sounds once the freezer has been too warm for two hours; the tone stops when the temperature is back to normal. 7 Series integrated columns sound the alarm and flash the display when the temperature passes the allowed limit.
Viking freezer display · also shown as High Temperature Alarm
What to do when HIGH TEMP 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 Error Code
A freezer error code appears on the display: letters and digits, a flashing temperature, or a warning symbol, sometimes with an alarm and sometimes with the freezer still running.
MakeViking
Viking freezers repaired at home, with the frost, the fans and the door seal checked on the first visit.
SourceViking Use & Care Manual, 5 Series built-in all refrigerators and all freezers (FDFB5303, VCFB5303 and siblings)
Viking 5 Series and Professional built-in all freezers (FDFB5303, FDFB5363, VCFB5303, VCFB5363 and custom panel versions). Viking 7 Series integrated all freezer columns (VFI7180, VFI7240, FFI and MVFI versions).
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Viking's own guidance for HIGH TEMP on its freezers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the food right away and move anything soft to another freezer or a cooler with ice.
Make sure the door is shut and sealing, and look for a recent large load of warm food.
If the light and alarm come back with the door shut, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into freezer thermostat and temperature control repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
HIGH TEMP is not a sensor failure code; those show as oPn or Shr. It also does not clear the problem when you press ALARM OFF; it only silences the tone.
What you may
notice with it.
The freezer problems HIGH TEMP tends to arrive with. Answer these at the freezer before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where HIGH TEMP usually leads
Freezer thermostat and temperature control repair.
Viking
freezers.
Viking freezers repaired at home, with the frost, the fans and the door seal checked on the first visit.
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In Viking's own words
High temperature alarm sounds and the “HIGH TEMP” light glows if the refrigerator or the freezer temperature is too high for two hours.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Viking 5 Series and Professional built-in all freezers (FDFB5303, FDFB5363, VCFB5303, VCFB5363 and custom panel versions). Viking 7 Series integrated all freezer columns (VFI7180, VFI7240, FFI and MVFI versions).
Viking HIGH TEMP freezer 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 HIGH TEMP.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing HIGH TEMP?
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.