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title: "Where the Model Number Hides on a DCS, Indoors and Out"
description: "DCS oven model number location, and where the plate hides on a grill, an island module and outdoor refrigeration. Photograph it rather than reading it out."
url: "https://dcsmiami.support/blog/dcs-finding-the-model-number/"
date_modified: "2026-09-14"
Category: "Troubleshooting"
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# Where the Model Number Hides on a DCS, Indoors and Out

Every machine on this badge hides its plate somewhere different, and none of them is where you would look first.

## DCS oven model number location: on a grill

Lift the hood, take out the grates and the radiant trays, and look at the firebox wall — usually toward one end, sometimes on the back. On some builds it sits behind the control panel instead, which means the fascia has to come off and is a job for us rather than for a Saturday.

Grease is the obstacle more often than corrosion. A plate under twelve years of cooking is legible again after a wipe with something degreasing.

## On an island module

Side burners, griddles, power burners and warming drawers generally carry the plate on the underside of the front rail or inside the cabinet beneath. Open the access door below and look up: it is frequently facing down, which is why people miss it.

## On built-in indoor equipment

Open the door and look at the frame it closes against — most often along one side, sometimes across the top. On a wall oven it can also be behind the lower trim, which comes away with the kick strip.

You should not have to pull the machine out of the run to find its number. If it looks as though you do, stop and let us do it.

## On outdoor refrigeration

Inside the door, high on a sidewall. On drawer units it may be on the side of the drawer housing, visible with the drawer fully out.

## Why the last letter matters out here

Outdoor gas equipment is built for one fuel or the other, and the SKU says which. The orifices differ, and a machine running on the wrong one is subtly wrong from its first day — lazy flame, poor searing, soot — in a way that looks like a service problem for years.

Owners' memories of which they have are wrong often enough that we treat it as something to verify rather than something to ask. But if the plate says it, you have saved us the step.

## Photograph it, do not read it

Three reasons, all practical. A decade of salt makes eights look like sixes and Bs look like 8s. The photograph carries the serial as well, which narrows the production period. And a photograph attached to a booking is read by whoever loads the van, rather than by whoever answered the phone and wrote it down.

## What to do when there is genuinely no plate

It happens — plates fall off, get painted over during a renovation, or corrode past reading. Tell us the machine, its size, roughly when it was installed and what it is built into, and send a photograph of the front. On equipment this distinctive, that is usually enough to identify it.

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