Samsung dishwasher
showing HE
Samsung names HE a heater error and explains it as the machine reading the temperature inside the tub incorrectly.
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What HE
actually means.
Samsung names HE a heater error and explains it as the machine reading the temperature inside the tub incorrectly.
Samsung dishwasher display
What to do when HE shows on the dishwasherKind of codeHeating
The water did not reach the temperature the cycle calls for in time. A heating element, its thermal cutoff or the sensor reading it.
Usually leads toHeating and drying repair
Cold washes, wet dishes and cycles that run for hours, traced to the heater, its sensor or its safety cutout.
Shows up asDishwasher Not Heating Water
Dishes and the tub are cool at the end of the cycle, and grease stays on plates.
MakeSamsung
Built-in dishwashers with stainless tubs and connected features on many recent models.
SourceSamsung US support: dishwasher is displaying an error code
Samsung dishwashers with a two-character display.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Samsung's own guidance for HE on its dishwashers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Take the dishes out.
Add detergent and run a Normal cycle with the tub empty.
If HE appears again, switch the breaker off and book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into heating and drying repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
Do not leave the dishwasher powered while waiting for service if HE keeps coming back. Samsung's instruction is to switch it off at the breaker.
What you may
notice with it.
The dishwasher problems HE tends to arrive with. Answer these at the dishwasher before anyone is booked.
All problems
Dishwasher Not Heating Water
5 causes, cheapest first
Where HE usually leads
Heating and drying repair.
Read these
before the visit.
Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.
All guidesSamsung
dishwashers.
Built-in dishwashers with stainless tubs and connected features on many recent models.
Samsung dishwasher repair
In Samsung's own words
HE - Heater error The temperature inside the dishwasher is being detected incorrectly.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Samsung dishwashers with a two-character display.
Samsung HE dishwasher 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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ChicagoIL · 50 areas
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Questions
about HE.
Can I clear HE myself?
Should my Samsung stay plugged in while I wait for HE to be looked at?
How can I find out whether HE on my Samsung was a one-off?
Back to your everyday
Still showing HE?
Book with the characters exactly as shown, the full model number, and whether any water is on the floor — for a code, that is where the diagnosis begins.