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title: "Washer signal LOC"
description: "Washer signal LOC: electrolux washer — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code. The control lock is on."
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/error-codes/washer-loc/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Washer signal LOC

### What the appliance is actually reporting

The control lock is on. It is a feature, not a failure: the panel stops responding so that a cycle cannot be changed by a passing hand or a child at eye level with the buttons. We list it with the codes for the same reason the range’s dash is listed — from across a laundry closet, a locked panel and a dead panel are the same thing, and one of them is free to fix. The maker names the condition and publishes nothing further, which is honest: the button combination differs between models and belongs in the book that came with the machine.

### 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 for a key or padlock icon on the panel. If it is lit, this is the whole story.
- Look the control lock up in the book that came with the machine. On most of these it is a three-second hold on a button that does something entirely different when tapped.
- Hold it until the icon goes out and the panel answers again.
- If the panel is unlit and unresponsive with no lock icon, this is not LOC and the machine has a power or control problem instead.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/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](tel:+13059129018) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Control lock activator.

What the lights are telling you

What the appliance is actually reporting

The control lock is on. It is a feature, not a failure: the panel stops responding so that a cycle cannot be changed by a passing hand or a child at eye level with the buttons. We list it with the codes for the same reason the range’s dash is listed — from across a laundry closet, a locked panel and a dead panel are the same thing, and one of them is free to fix. The maker names the condition and publishes nothing further, which is honest: the button combination differs between models and belongs in the book that came with the machine.

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 for a key or padlock icon on the panel. If it is lit, this is the whole story.

Look the control lock up in the book that came with the machine. On most of these it is a three-second hold on a button that does something entirely different when tapped.

Hold it until the icon goes out and the panel answers again.

If the panel is unlit and unresponsive with no lock icon, this is not LOC and the machine has a power or control problem instead.

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](tel:+13059129018) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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