GE wall oven
showing F2
GE uses F2, written F20 on some controls, when the oven temperature climbed beyond a preset threshold for a reason the control could not identify.
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- Heating
- Bake and broil element repair
- Source: GE
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What F2
actually means.
GE uses F2, written F20 on some controls, when the oven temperature climbed beyond a preset threshold for a reason the control could not identify. The heat circuit, the sensor or the control can all lead there.
GE oven display · also shown as F20
What to do when F2 shows on the ovenKind of codeHeating
The control asked for heat and the cavity did not warm the way it expected. A bake or broil element that has opened or blistered is the usual answer; the wiring to it and the relay that switches it are checked before a board is blamed.
Usually leads toBake and broil element repair
An electric oven that stays cold, bakes only from above or will not broil, traced to the element, its terminals or the relay that feeds it.
Shows up asOven Won't Turn Off
The oven keeps heating after you press cancel or off, or it heats with no mode selected at all.
MakeGE
GE Appliances, now owned by Haier, sells a wide choice of everyday single, double and combination wall ovens.
SourceGE Appliances support: Range & Wall Oven error codes
GE wall ovens with electronic controls, such as JT5000 and JK5000 (built 2013-2019), whose support page links this GE code list.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from GE's own guidance for F2 on its ovens. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Turn the oven off at the breaker right away and keep it off.
If there is smoke, keep the door closed while it cools.
Book a visit; GE advises leaving the breaker off until service.
Still there?
It usually turns into bake and broil element repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
F2 is not a request to clean the oven or a sign that self-clean was set.
What you may
notice with it.
The oven problems F2 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the oven before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where F2 usually leads
Bake and broil element repair.
GE
ovens.
GE Appliances, now owned by Haier, sells a wide choice of everyday single, double and combination wall ovens.
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In GE's own words
For an unknown reason, the oven temperature has exceeded a preset threshold.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. GE wall ovens with electronic controls, such as JT5000 and JK5000 (built 2013-2019), whose support page links this GE code list.
GE F2 oven 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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Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
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HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about F2.
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Is F20 on my GE different from F2?
Back to your everyday
Still showing F2?
Book with the code exactly as shown, the full model number, and whether you can smell gas or burning — with a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.