--- title: "Electrolux stove shows F3, F20 or F26 | StoveRepair.center" description: "What F3 means on Electrolux stove shows F3, F20 or F26s, what to check before booking, and when it is not a failure at all." url: "https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-f3/" --- # Electrolux stove shows F3, F20 or F26 Electrolux lists F3, F20 and F26 as a communication error on its earlier electric models. ## What F3 actually means. Electrolux lists F3, F20 and F26 as a communication error on its earlier electric models. The display and the board that switches power have lost contact. Electrolux stove display · also shown as F20, F26 What to do when F3 shows on the stove ### Kind of code Control board and power The main board failed its own start-up check, lost contact with the display, or saw the supply voltage sag too low, often after a storm, a power outage or a spill that ran down behind the panel. The breaker, the cord and the outlet are ruled out before a board is replaced. A stove that sparks, smells of hot wiring or keeps heating while this code shows is switched off at the breaker first. ### Usually leads to Control board and display repair Stoves with a blank or flashing display, touch keys that do not answer, codes that keep returning or a stove that will not turn on, traced to the board, the keypad or the power to them. ### Shows up as Stove Display Blank or Flashing The clock and display on the stove have gone dark, or they flash the time, a word or a string of characters and ignore the keys you press. ### Make Electrolux A Swedish appliance group whose stoves in American kitchens often have their controls along the front edge. ### Source Electrolux: Ranges - Error Code Guide F3 is listed here: Electrolux's owner support code guide, written for its earlier electric models (the articles say Electric Ranges); the current ECF gas, dual fuel and induction stoves show Err with a number instead. ## Before you book, in this order. Each step comes from Electrolux's own guidance for F3 on its stoves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit. 01 Take the stove off power for as long as 30 seconds. 02 Restore power and try one element and the oven. 03 If F3 or its partners return, book a visit; the wiring between the boards is the first thing tested. ### Still there? It usually turns into [control board and display repair](https://stoverepair.center/services/control-board-and-display-repair/). Book with the code and the model number. ### What not to do F3 is not a heating part failing. The heat parts may work; the boards are not passing orders. ## What you may notice with it. The stove problems F3 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the stove before anyone is booked. [All problems](https://stoverepair.center/problems/) Before you call ### [Stove Display Blank or Flashing](https://stoverepair.center/problems/stove-display-blank-or-flashing/) [All 6 causes, cheapest first](https://stoverepair.center/problems/stove-display-blank-or-flashing/) It also comes with - [**Stove Won't Turn On**](https://stoverepair.center/problems/stove-wont-turn-on/) - [**Stove Error Code**](https://stoverepair.center/problems/stove-error-code/) Problem ### Stove Display Blank or Flashing 6 causes, cheapest first Where F3 usually leads ## Control board and display repair. **Control board, keypad or display · moderate.** Book a visit [What the job involves](https://stoverepair.center/services/control-board-and-display-repair/) ## Electrolux stoves. A Swedish appliance group whose stoves in American kitchens often have their controls along the front edge. [Electrolux stove repair](https://stoverepair.center/brands/electrolux/) More Electrolux codes [Err](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-err/) [5d](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-5d/) [F10](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-f10/) [F30](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-f30/) [F90](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-f90/) [F1](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-f1/) [F40](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-f40/) Control board and power on other makes [AGA CE](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/aga-ce/) [BlueStar F20](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/bluestar-f20/) [Bosch e005](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/bosch-e005/) [Café F97](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/cafe-f97/) [Dacor C-F0](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/dacor-c-f0/) [Fisher & Paykel F](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/fisher-and-paykel-f/) [Frigidaire F3](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/frigidaire-f3/) [Fulgor Milano Fan failure](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/fulgor-milano-fan-failure/) [All 78 codes of this kind](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/#family-board) Electrolux builds this ### Gas stove A stove with gas burners on top, whether its oven below runs on gas too or on electricity, fed by one gas line behind it and plugged into a wall outlet for the spark. Electrolux builds this ### Induction stove A stove with a flat glass top that heats the pan itself through a magnetic field, run by touch keys and power boards, with an electric oven underneath. ## In Electrolux's own words > F3 / F20 / F26 / - Communication Error [Electrolux: Ranges - Error Code Guide](https://owner.electrolux.com/support-articles/article/1846380-ranges-error-code-guide) [Electrolux: error code F3/F20](https://owner.electrolux.com/support-articles/article/1846389-range-error-code-f3-f20-communication-error) Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. F3 is listed here: Electrolux's owner support code guide, written for its earlier electric models (the articles say Electric Ranges); the current ECF gas, dual fuel and induction stoves show Err with a number instead. ## Electrolux F3 stove repair, where we come out. 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