GE Profile F2: the thermal sensor reads shorted
Where F1 is an open reading, F2 is the opposite: the thermal sensor or its wiring reads as shorted.
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What F2
actually means.
Where F1 is an open reading, F2 is the opposite: the thermal sensor or its wiring reads as shorted. The control cannot trust its heat reading and stops the microwave.
GE Profile microwave display
What to do when F2 shows on the microwaveKind of codeSensors and temperature
The control has stopped trusting what one of its sensors reports: the cook or humidity sensor that ends a sensor reheat when steam rises, or a thermal cutout that trips when the cavity or the magnetron runs too hot. A cutout that opens stops the microwave mid-cycle and often recovers once it cools; one that keeps tripping, or a sensor program that shuts off at once every time, needs the sensor, its wiring or the airflow behind it checked.
Usually leads toMicrowave control board and touchpad repair
Tracing a dead display, keys that do not answer or a code that keeps returning to the keypad, the ribbon, the relays or the main board, and replacing only the part that failed.
Shows up asWhat a Microwave Error Code Is Telling You
A microwave error code may be a letter and a number on the display, a lock or demo word, a row of dashes, or a beep with a blinking clock, and it can show while the microwave still heats or block every key until it is cleared.
MakeGE Profile
GE Profile microwaves repaired where they hang or sit, whether it is the vent fan, the cavity lamp, the keypad or the heat that gave out.
SourceGE Appliances microwave code article, linked from the PVM9005SJSS owner center
GE lists F2 in the code article that the PVM9005SJSS owner center links; it is a technician code and does not appear in the owner's manual.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from GE Profile's own guidance for F2 on its microwaves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Press Cancel/Off and note when the code appeared.
Cut power at the breaker, wait half a minute and restore it.
If F2 comes back, stop using the microwave and book a visit so the sensor and harness can be tested.
Still there?
It usually turns into microwave control board and touchpad repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
F2 is not caused by the food or by how the microwave was used, unlike F1. It points to a part or a wire rather than to a hot cavity.
What you may
notice with it.
The microwave problems F2 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the microwave before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where F2 usually leads
Microwave control board and touchpad repair.
GE Profile
microwaves.
GE Profile microwaves repaired where they hang or sit, whether it is the vent fan, the cavity lamp, the keypad or the heat that gave out.
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In GE Profile's own words
F2 Shorted thermal sensor
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. GE lists F2 in the code article that the PVM9005SJSS owner center links; it is a technician code and does not appear in the owner's manual.
GE Profile F2 microwave repair,
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The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about F2.
Can I clear F2 myself?
How is F2 different from F1 on a GE Profile microwave?
Will resetting the breaker fix F2 on a GE Profile?
Can I still cook if F2 comes and goes?
Back to your everyday
Still showing F2?
Three details make the booking useful: the characters or beeps just as they appeared, every character of the model number, and whether a cup of water still warms up. With those, the technician arrives already halfway to the answer.