GE Profile F5: the humidity sensor reads shorted
F5 is the shorted counterpart of F4.
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What F5
actually means.
F5 is the shorted counterpart of F4. The humidity sensor or its wiring reads as a short, so the control cannot use it to time sensor programs.
GE Profile microwave display
What to do when F5 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
Documented in GE's code article that the PVM9005SJSS owner center points to, alongside F4; it is not printed in any Profile owner's manual.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from GE Profile's own guidance for F5 on its microwaves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Press Cancel/Off and use Cook Time instead of sensor keys.
Reset the breaker for 30 seconds.
Book a visit if F5 appears again 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
F5 is not a sign that the magnetron has failed, since heating by time is a separate path. Grease or moisture on a sensor connector can cause it, which is why the connector is checked before the sensor is replaced.
What you may
notice with it.
The microwave problems F5 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the microwave before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where F5 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.
GE Profile microwave repairMore GE Profile codes
Sensors and temperature on other makes
Microwave hood combination
The microwave that hangs from the wall cabinets above the burners, heating food in its cavity while its own fan, light and filters handle the steam and grease rising from the pans beneath it.
Built-in microwave
A microwave set into a tall cabinet or a wall of cabinetry at eye level, either a countertop body wrapped in a trim kit or a true built-in model, including speed and convection microwaves that brown as well as heat.
Microwave drawer
A microwave built under a counter or into a kitchen island that opens like a drawer at the touch of a key, with a motor and gears sliding its cavity out toward you.
In GE Profile's own words
F5 Shorted humidity sensor
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Documented in GE's code article that the PVM9005SJSS owner center points to, alongside F4; it is not printed in any Profile owner's manual.
GE Profile F5 microwave repair,
where we come out.
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 F5.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing F5?
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.