Error code
Refrigerator signal SB SB
Frigidaire refrigerator — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code. A mode, not an error, and the reason it lands on a repair company's phone is that a cabinet in it looks broken: the lights do not come on, the display does not respond, the dispenser does nothing.
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What we can confirm
Signal SB SB, 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
SB SB
A mode, not an error, and the reason it lands on a repair company's phone is that a cabinet in it looks broken: the lights do not come on, the display does not respond, the dispenser does nothing. It is worth knowing that it can be entered by accident — a key combination held on the panel — and that a rental or a recently bought condominium can arrive already in it with nobody in the household aware. The maker's note is worth repeating: the high-temperature alarm stays live in this mode, so a cabinet in Sabbath mode is still watching its own temperature.
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What it narrows down to
The Sabbath Mode is a feature that disables portions of the refrigerator and its controls in accordance with observance of the weekly Sabbath and religious holidays. NOTE: In the Sabbath Mode, the High Temp alarm is active for health reasons.
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What else belongs to the refrigerators
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
High temp will illuminate next to clear alerts button. Alarm is played every 60 seconds. The recommended settings for a product installed in a kitchen is 37˚F for the refrigerator and 0˚F for the freezer.
Indicates there is ice jammed in the chute. An alarm will sound when a cube is stuck in the chute too long. Ice has melted and frozen around the auger due to infrequent use, temperature fluctuations, and/or power outages.
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Refrigerator signal SB SB
What the appliance is actually reporting
A mode, not an error, and the reason it lands on a repair company's phone is that a cabinet in it looks broken: the lights do not come on, the display does not respond, the dispenser does nothing. It is worth knowing that it can be entered by accident — a key combination held on the panel — and that a rental or a recently bought condominium can arrive already in it with nobody in the household aware. The maker's note is worth repeating: the high-temperature alarm stays live in this mode, so a cabinet in Sabbath mode is still watching its own temperature.
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
- Check whether the cabinet is actually cold. Sabbath mode disables the controls and the lights, not the cooling.
- Exit the mode with the key combination in the use and care guide for your model — it varies, and holding the wrong pair does nothing.
- If the household did not set it, look at who used the panel last. It is entered by holding keys, so it is rarely random.
- A cabinet that will not leave the mode has a control problem, and that is the point at which it is worth 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