Whirlpool glass stovetop with a flashing indicator light
On a Whirlpool electric stove with touch controls on the glass, a flashing indicator means one or more keys are being read as permanently pressed.
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- Knobs, keys and display
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What Flashing indicator light
actually means.
On a Whirlpool electric stove with touch controls on the glass, a flashing indicator means one or more keys are being read as permanently pressed. On induction models it can also mean the controls were not set in the right order.
Whirlpool stove display
What to do when Flashing indicator light shows on the stoveKind of codeKnobs, keys and display
A key on the panel was held down too long, reported a press nobody made, or stopped answering; or a knob's switch told the stove it was on when it was off. Water, a spill or grease worked in behind a knob is ruled out first, then the switch, the key panel and the cable to the board. If a burner keeps heating while the keys or knobs do nothing, switch the stove off at the breaker.
Usually leads toKnob and switch replacement
Stove knobs that are cracked, loose or spin in place, and the switches behind them that leave a burner stuck on high or dead, replaced at the knob, the stem or the switch.
Shows up asStove 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.
MakeWhirlpool
The Michigan-based appliance maker behind many of the gas and electric stoves in American homes and rentals.
SourceWhirlpool product help: flashing indicator light
Whirlpool electric stoves with glass touch controls; induction models give a different reason.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Whirlpool's own guidance for Flashing indicator light on its stoves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Make sure every stovetop control is off.
Remove anything on the control area and wipe it clean and dry.
If the light keeps flashing, cut power for one minute; if it still flashes, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into knob and switch replacement. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
A flashing indicator is not a hot-surface warning. That is a steady light or an H; the flashing one is about the keys.
What you may
notice with it.
The stove problems Flashing indicator light tends to arrive with. Answer these at the stove before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Flashing indicator light usually leads
Knob and switch replacement.
Whirlpool
stoves.
The Michigan-based appliance maker behind many of the gas and electric stoves in American homes and rentals.
Whirlpool stove repairMore Whirlpool codes
All 14 Whirlpool codesKnobs, keys and display on other makes
All 27 codes of this kind
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.
Electric stove
A stove that runs entirely on electricity through a heavy cord and a large outlet behind it, with coil burners that lift out or a smooth glass stovetop with elements under it.
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 Whirlpool's own words
This is indicating that one or more keys are permanently pressed.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Whirlpool electric stoves with glass touch controls; induction models give a different reason.
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Questions
about Flashing indicator light.
Can I clear Flashing indicator light myself?
Why does a light flash on my Whirlpool glass stovetop after a boil-over?
Can a pan on the controls make my Whirlpool light flash?
My Whirlpool induction light is flashing. Is it the same problem?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Flashing indicator light?
Book with the code written exactly as the stove shows it, the full model number, and whether you notice any smell of gas or hot wiring — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.