Error code
Refrigerator signal SB SB
Electrolux refrigerator — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code. A deliberate feature, and one of the few entries on any of these pages where the right advice may be to leave it exactly as it is.
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What we can confirm
Signal SB SB, from the manufacturer's own documentation
This code has no number, because this equipment has no display to put one on. The appliance signals it instead — an alarm, a symbol or a pattern of lights — and what it means is recorded in the documentation that ships with it.
The signal
SB SB
A deliberate feature, and one of the few entries on any of these pages where the right advice may be to leave it exactly as it is. In Sabbath mode the lights, the dispenser and the panel stop responding, which is precisely the description somebody gives when they think a refrigerator has half-failed. Two details are worth carrying: the high-temperature alarm stays live for food safety even in this mode, and the setting survives a power cut — so a cabinet that comes back from an outage still silent and dark is very often this and not a failure. It is cleared from the panel and nowhere else.
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What it narrows down to
The Sabbath Mode is a feature that disables portions of the refrigerator and its controls in accordance with observance of the weekly Sabbath and religious holidays within the Orthodox Jewish community. Sabbath Mode is turned ON and OFF by simultaneously pressing and holding both the "−" and "Temp F-C" keys for five seconds. The display shows "Sb" while in Sabbath mode.
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What else belongs to the refrigerators
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
High temp will illuminate next to the clear alerts button. Alarm is played every 60 seconds. Press "CLEAR ALERTS" to acknowledge the alarm. The highest temp value will be displayed when the alarm is first acknowledged.
Indicates there is ice jammed in the chute. An alarm will sound when a cube is stuck in the chute too long. Ice has melted and frozen around the auger due to infrequent use, temperature fluctuations, and/or power outages. Ice cubes are jammed between the ice maker and the back of the ice bin.
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Refrigerator signal SB SB
What the appliance is actually reporting
A deliberate feature, and one of the few entries on any of these pages where the right advice may be to leave it exactly as it is. In Sabbath mode the lights, the dispenser and the panel stop responding, which is precisely the description somebody gives when they think a refrigerator has half-failed. Two details are worth carrying: the high-temperature alarm stays live for food safety even in this mode, and the setting survives a power cut — so a cabinet that comes back from an outage still silent and dark is very often this and not a failure. It is cleared from the panel and nowhere else.
The other ways this one is printed
SB SB · Sb · SB
The same condition is printed differently on different panels of the same make, and every spelling the maker publishes for it is above. Whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.
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
- Look at the display for "Sb". That is the mode announcing itself, and it settles the question.
- If it was set deliberately, leave it. The cabinet is cooling normally and the alarm that matters is still working.
- To exit, hold "−" and "Temp F-C" together for five seconds — the maker's own combination.
- If the panel is dark with no "Sb" showing and no buttons answer at all, this is not Sabbath mode and the control has a power problem.
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