Error code
Range error code F31
Electrolux range error code F31: The other half of F30: the same sensor, reading as a short rather than an open. Which machines can raise it, what the maker publishes about it, and what to do next.
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What we can confirm
Code F31, from the manufacturer's own documentation
A code is only meaningful together with the machine showing it — the same digits mean different things on different equipment.
The code
F31
The other half of F30: the same sensor, reading as a short rather than an open. The control sees an impossibly low resistance — which reads as an impossibly high temperature — and refuses to heat. A short is more often the harness than the probe: a wire pinched against the cavity when a rear panel went back on, or insulation that has gone brittle where it passes a hot corner. The pair is worth reading together, because which of the two appears decides whether the technician brings a sensor or opens the back first.
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What it narrows down to
Shorted Probe. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
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On the same appliance
What else belongs to the ranges
On this make a code belongs to the appliance rather than to a product line. These are the other conditions this machine can display, and the models that can show this one — a display often has more than one thing to say, and the model number decides what any of it costs to put right.
Other codes this appliance can display
The cooktop is locked. To cancel the oven Lock feature, press OFF and hold for 6 seconds. The control will unlock the oven door and resume normal operations.
Shorted key pad. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
Thermal runaway. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
Micro identification. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
E Prompt Failure. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
Communication Error. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
Open Probe. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
Cooktop Lock Out. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
Door Lock Issue. To unlock the oven door, press the UNLOCK key. Once the controls and door are locked, there is no access to any cooking functions. Please reset the range by disconnecting the power to the unit for up to 30 seconds. You can disconnect power by either unplugging the unit or flipping the circuit breaker off and back on.
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In more detail
About Range error code F31
What F31 means on this make
The other half of F30: the same sensor, reading as a short rather than an open. The control sees an impossibly low resistance — which reads as an impossibly high temperature — and refuses to heat. A short is more often the harness than the probe: a wire pinched against the cavity when a rear panel went back on, or insulation that has gone brittle where it passes a hot corner. The pair is worth reading together, because which of the two appears decides whether the technician brings a sensor or opens the back first.
Where this appears, and why not to clear it
On the appliance's own display, as a short single code — a letter and a number, or two letters. Nothing alternates and nothing arrives in halves on this make, so what the panel shows is the whole of it. Photograph it before you cut the power. This maker's own answer to most of these is thirty seconds at the breaker, and that is worth following once — but a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again.
What to do about it
- Photograph the display before anything else. A code copied by hand loses its spacing, and on this make the spacing is part of it — SU dS and SB SB are not typing errors.
- Give it a full thirty seconds at the breaker rather than a flick. These controls hold enough charge to carry their own state across a short interruption, which is why a quick off-and-on appears to do nothing.
- Set the same task going again and watch exactly when the code lands — at the first press, part-way through a preheat, or twenty minutes in. That timing narrows down the board faster than the number on its own ever will.
- One reset is a test; four is a habit, and a habit hides how often this is actually happening. Note the date each time instead. A code that turns up weekly and a code that turns up twice a year are two different conversations.
Where this goes next
The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call (305) 912-9018 and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards