--- title: "Thermador MicroDrawer ERROR: a sensor program lost its reading" description: "What ERROR means on Thermador MicroDrawer ERROR: a sensor program lost its readings, what to check before booking, and when it is not a failure at all." url: "https://microwaverepair.center/error-codes/thermador-error/" --- # Thermador MicroDrawer ERROR: a sensor program lost its reading The MicroDrawer's sensor settings judge doneness by the moisture and humidity the food gives off. ## What ERROR actually means. The MicroDrawer's sensor settings judge doneness by the moisture and humidity the food gives off. Opening the drawer or touching Stop/Clear while the food name is still showing breaks that measurement, and so can very dry food; the drawer then shows ERROR instead of a remaining time. Thermador microwave display What to do when ERROR shows on the microwave ### Kind of code Sensors 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 to Microwave 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 as What 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. ### Make Thermador Thermador microwaves diagnosed in place, from a drawer that will not glide open to a built-in unit that runs with no heat. ### Source Thermador MD24BS / MD30BS MicroDrawer Use and Care Guide Thermador MicroDrawer MD24BS and MD30BS (Use and Care Guide 8001299202). ## Before you book, in this order. Each step comes from Thermador's own guidance for ERROR on its microwaves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit. 01 Touch Stop/Clear and finish cooking with a time and power level. 02 Allow two minutes after the drawer is first plugged in before any sensor setting. 03 Dry the outside of the dish and the cavity before starting, and keep the drawer shut until the cook time appears. 04 If every sensor setting ends in ERROR, book a visit. ### Still there? It usually turns into [microwave control board and touchpad repair](https://microwaverepair.center/services/microwave-control-board-and-touchpad-repair/). Book with the code and the model number. ### What not to do ERROR on the MicroDrawer is a sensor-program message, not a numbered malfunction code. It is not expected with popcorn, which Thermador handles differently. ## What you may notice with it. The microwave problems ERROR tends to arrive with. Answer these at the microwave before anyone is booked. [All problems](https://microwaverepair.center/problems/) Before you call ### [What a Microwave Error Code Is Telling You](https://microwaverepair.center/problems/microwave-error-code/) [All 7 causes, cheapest first](https://microwaverepair.center/problems/microwave-error-code/) It also comes with - [**Microwave Shuts Off Before the Timer Ends**](https://microwaverepair.center/problems/microwave-stops-mid-cycle/) Problem ### What a Microwave Error Code Is Telling You 7 causes, cheapest first Where ERROR usually leads ## Microwave control board and touchpad repair. **Control board, keypad membrane or display · moderate to highest.** Book a visit [What the job involves](https://microwaverepair.center/services/microwave-control-board-and-touchpad-repair/) ## Thermador microwaves. Thermador microwaves diagnosed in place, from a drawer that will not glide open to a built-in unit that runs with no heat. 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Thermador builds this ### 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. Thermador builds this ### 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 Thermador's own words > cooking foods (except popcorn), ERROR appears on the [Thermador MD24BS / MD30BS MicroDrawer Use and Care Guide](https://media3.bsh-group.com/Documents/8001299202_B.pdf) [Thermador MD24BS / MD30BS MicroDrawer Use and Care Guide](https://media3.bsh-group.com/Documents/8001299202_B.pdf) [Thermador MD24BS / MD30BS MicroDrawer Use and Care Guide](https://media3.bsh-group.com/Documents/8001299202_B.pdf) Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Thermador MicroDrawer MD24BS and MD30BS (Use and Care Guide 8001299202). ## Thermador ERROR 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. 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Touch Stop/Clear and finish cooking with a time and power level. If it comes back, it needs a visit. ### What makes the Thermador MicroDrawer show ERROR mid-reheat? Most often the drawer was opened, or Stop/Clear was touched, before the sensor finished reading. Finish the dish manually. ### Why does a brand-new Thermador MicroDrawer show ERROR? Thermador asks for two minutes after first plugging in before sensor settings are used. ### When is Thermador ERROR a repair? When it happens on every sensor setting even with the drawer left closed. Then the sensor is tested. --- **[Read on the site: Thermador MicroDrawer ERROR: a sensor program lost its reading](https://microwaverepair.center/error-codes/thermador-error/)** **[Book a visit with MicrowaveRepair.center](https://microwaverepair.center/schedule/)**