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Error code

Grill signal Flare-ups

DCS grill · no code is displayed — this is a safety signal. Grease is reaching flame, and where it is sitting is the whole question.

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What we can confirm

Signal Flare-ups, 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

Flare-ups

Grease is reaching flame, and where it is sitting is the whole question. A grill is built to carry drippings away from the fire — radiant trays spread the heat and shed what falls on them, a tray beneath collects it, a channel takes it to somewhere it can be emptied. When any part of that path is loaded, missing or refitted the wrong way round, rendered fat arrives on the burner instead. We see this most on grills that are immaculate on the grates and untouched underneath, and in this market it is the commonest cause of a grill fire.

What it narrows down to

Flames rise through the grates whenever anything fatty is cooked.

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What else belongs to the grills

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

The flame has lost its blue and burns yellow or orange.

Nothing lights, on one burner or on all of them.

Gas can be smelled at or around the grill.

The grill lights and runs but will not reach its top temperature.

The spit does not rotate, or the rear burner dies when the dial is released.

The hood lights, the dial lighting, or both have stopped working.

The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list

In more detail

About Grill signal Flare-ups

What the appliance is actually reporting

Grease is reaching flame, and where it is sitting is the whole question. A grill is built to carry drippings away from the fire — radiant trays spread the heat and shed what falls on them, a tray beneath collects it, a channel takes it to somewhere it can be emptied. When any part of that path is loaded, missing or refitted the wrong way round, rendered fat arrives on the burner instead. We see this most on grills that are immaculate on the grates and untouched underneath, and in this market it is the commonest cause of a grill fire.

Where this appears, and which table it belongs to

On the appliance's own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all.

Which machines this one applies to

no code is displayed — this is a safety signal. 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. This maker documents codes on 4 of the appliance types this site publishes — bbq grill, cooktop, oven and range — and publishes none at all for bbq grill, beverage center, outdoor kitchen appliance, range and range hood. 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

  1. Stop cooking and turn the burners off if flames are persistent rather than occasional. This is a fire, not a technique.
  2. With everything cold, take out the grates, the radiants and the tray and look at all of them. Fat that has nowhere to go is usually visible immediately.
  3. Check that the radiants go back the way they came out. Fitted the wrong way round they defeat the whole design.

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) 526-4714 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

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