Whirlpool convertible chest freezer red light flashing with a tone: it is 19°F or warmer
On Whirlpool convertible chest freezers, the Over Temperature Alert sounds a continuous tone and flashes a red light when the inside rises to 19°F or higher.
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- Temperature and alarms
- Freezer thermostat and temperature control repair
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What Over Temperature alert
actually means.
On Whirlpool convertible chest freezers, the Over Temperature Alert sounds a continuous tone and flashes a red light when the inside rises to 19°F or higher. Pressing TEMP SETTING once stops the tone and turns the flashing light steady until the freezer is back below 19°F.
Whirlpool freezer display · also shown as red light flashing with tone
What to do when Over Temperature alert 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 asStandalone Freezer Not Freezing
A standalone freezer not freezing shows it on a thermometer long before the food goes soft: packages give under your thumb, a tub of stock is slush at the center, and the cabinet air feels cool rather than biting.
MakeWhirlpool
Whirlpool freezers repaired in the kitchen, the garage or the basement.
SourceWhirlpool Product Help: Alarm Sound - Convertible Chest Freezer
Whirlpool convertible chest freezers with an electronic panel and a TEMP SETTING button.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Whirlpool's own guidance for Over Temperature alert on its freezers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Press TEMP SETTING once to stop the tone.
Keep the lid shut and check that it closes on a clean, level gasket.
Check the food and move anything thawed to a working freezer or a cooler with ice.
If the red light is still steady the next day, 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
The alert concerns temperature only and does not mean the compressor has stopped. It can also go off after a big load of room-temperature food.
What you may
notice with it.
The freezer problems Over Temperature alert tends to arrive with. Answer these at the freezer before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Over Temperature alert usually leads
Freezer thermostat and temperature control repair.
Whirlpool
freezers.
Whirlpool freezers repaired in the kitchen, the garage or the basement.
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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 Whirlpool's own words
The Over Temperature Alert lets you know if the freezer temperature has risen to 19°F (-7°C) or higher.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Whirlpool convertible chest freezers with an electronic panel and a TEMP SETTING button.
Whirlpool Over Temperature alert 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.
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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 Over Temperature alert.
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Why is my Whirlpool convertible chest freezer beeping with a red light?
How long will the red light stay on after I silence the Whirlpool alert?
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Over Temperature alert?
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.