Error code
Dishwasher signal Hd
Frigidaire dishwasher — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code. Not a failure and not really an error — the machine is waiting for its water to come up to temperature and telling you so.
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What we can confirm
Signal Hd, 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
Hd
Not a failure and not really an error — the machine is waiting for its water to come up to temperature and telling you so. The maker's own note is the useful part: roughly one to two minutes of delay for every degree of temperature rise. That arithmetic explains the complaint this arrives with, which is a cycle that has become far longer than it used to be. The usual cause is the house rather than the appliance — a water heater turned down, or a long cold run of pipe to a kitchen at the far end of a condominium.
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What it narrows down to
Error Code Hd or HO indicates the unit is in the "Heat Delay" or "Heater On" mode. This delay is to allow the dishwasher to heat the water to the optimal temperature.
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What else belongs to the dishwashers
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
Error Code i20 indicates that the dishwasher is not draining properly.
Error code i40 indicates a clogged filter or sump. This occurs when food soils have built up in the sump.
Error Code 01-24 indicates that the delay option has been enabled and will begin the cycle once the displayed time reaches 0.
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Dishwasher signal Hd
What the appliance is actually reporting
Not a failure and not really an error — the machine is waiting for its water to come up to temperature and telling you so. The maker's own note is the useful part: roughly one to two minutes of delay for every degree of temperature rise. That arithmetic explains the complaint this arrives with, which is a cycle that has become far longer than it used to be. The usual cause is the house rather than the appliance — a water heater turned down, or a long cold run of pipe to a kitchen at the far end of a condominium.
The other ways this one is printed
Hd · HO
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
- Let it run. The machine is heating water, and the display is reporting that rather than reporting a problem.
- Run the kitchen hot tap until it is genuinely hot before starting the machine. It saves the delay rather than hiding it.
- If the cycle has grown much longer over a few months, check the water heater setting before booking anything.
- A machine that never leaves this state has a heater or a thermistor that is not doing its job, and that is a visit.
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) 615-5496 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