Error code
Dishwasher: Control Light Flashing on a dishwasher
Maytag dishwasher — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code. Maytag publishes this code with the subsystem it belongs to and its own reset procedure, and it does not publish a mechanism behind it.
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What we can confirm
Code Control Light Flashing, 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 code
Control Light Flashing
Maytag publishes this code with the subsystem it belongs to and its own reset procedure, and it does not publish a mechanism behind it. That is worth saying rather than filling in: what the page below quotes is the whole of what the maker states, and everything else about this number would be a guess wearing a technical vocabulary. Maytag documents this one under “Control Light Flashing on a dishwasher” and publishes no component list behind it, which is worth knowing before an evening is spent looking for one.
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What it narrows down to
Control Light Flashing on a dishwasher
Diagnostic
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On the same appliance
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
F6E1 Error Code
Clean Light Flashing on a dishwasher
Potential Cause: Control Module
Potential Cause: Heating System
Potential Cause: Heating Error
User interface or control
Potential Cause: Wash Motor Error
Remove the Code
Potential Cause: Fill Valve Stuck Open
Check the drain line for kinks
Potential Cause: Drain motor error
What do the Front Status Lights Mean?
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Dishwasher: Control Light Flashing on a dishwasher
What the appliance is actually reporting
Maytag publishes this code with the subsystem it belongs to and its own reset procedure, and it does not publish a mechanism behind it. That is worth saying rather than filling in: what the page below quotes is the whole of what the maker states, and everything else about this number would be a guess wearing a technical vocabulary. Maytag documents this one under “Control Light Flashing on a dishwasher” and publishes no component list behind it, which is worth knowing before an evening is spent looking for one.
Where this appears, and why not to clear it
On the appliance's own display, and usually two halves at a time. This platform writes its codes as an F followed by an E — F2E1, F8E4 — and the panel ALTERNATES between the halves rather than showing them together, which is why so many people write down half a code and search for a page that does not exist. Wait for one full alternation and write both halves. Photograph the panel before cutting the power: a code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has, and on this make there is no way to ask the machine for it again.
Which machines this one applies to
Dishwasher. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. Whirlpool publishes no codes at all for its gas cooktops, its upright freezers or its top-freezer refrigerators — those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door.
What to do about it
- Write the code down exactly as it appears, including the letters. On this platform the letter and the number after it are two halves of one address, and a code read as “F2” when the display alternates to “E1” is a different page.
- Cut the power at the breaker for a minute and restore it. This proves one thing only: a code that clears and stays clear was a condition rather than a failure, and one that returns has a part behind it.
- Note what the appliance was doing when it appeared — which cycle, how far in, and whether it repeats at the same point. A code that always arrives at the same moment is worth more to a technician than the number itself.
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) 853-8839 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