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title: "Viking incogneeto induction warmer error code E-16"
description: "Viking incogneeto induction warmer error code E-16: the manufacturer publishes this for a critical error."
url: "https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-16-induction-warmer/"
date_modified: "2026-08-21"
Product line: "5 Series"
---


# Viking incogneeto induction warmer error code E-16

Error code

# Viking incogneeto induction warmer error code E-16

Viking incogneeto induction warmer error code E-16: the manufacturer publishes this for a critical error. What the code covers, what to check before you book, and why the same token means something else on another Viking machine.

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What we can confirm

## Code E-16, from the manufacturer’s own documentation

A code is only meaningful together with the generation showing it — the same two digits mean different things across generations, and that is the commonest reason a code looked up online leads somewhere wrong. This one is recorded on [5 Series](https://vikingmiami.support/series/5-series/).

The code

E-16

The manufacturer publishes this for a critical error

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What it narrows down to

Critical error

What you are probably seeing

[Cooktop not heating](https://vikingmiami.support/symptoms/cooktop-not-heating/)

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What it looks like from the kitchen

## The symptom this code usually arrives with

A code names the subsystem; the symptom is what sent you to look at the display in the first place. That page says what it usually turns out to be, cheapest cause first.

- One zone, or all of them
					Cooktop not heating

					A zone that stays cold while the rest work, or a whole cooktop that lights up and never heats. On this make the answer depends entirely on which kind of top is in the counter.

														One zone cold, the rest fine

														Every zone cold with the panel lit

														It heats for a moment and stops

								[

				What it usually means

			](https://vikingmiami.support/symptoms/cooktop-not-heating/)
One zone, or all of them

A zone that stays cold while the rest work, or a whole cooktop that lights up and never heats. On this make the answer depends entirely on which kind of top is in the counter.

- One zone cold, the rest fine
- Every zone cold with the panel lit
- It heats for a moment and stops
On the same generation

## What else belongs to the 5 Series

A code belongs to a generation rather than to one cabinet. These are the other codes yours can show, 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 generation can display

Temperature sensor

- [E-01](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-01-induction-warmer/)
Over current

- [E-03](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-03-induction-warmer/)
High line voltage

- [E-06](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-06-induction-warmer/)
Hardware failure

- [E-07](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-07-induction-warmer/)
Zero cross failure

- [E-08](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-08-induction-warmer/)
Magneeto II RTD

- [E-10](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-10-induction-warmer/)
Tag communication

- [E-11](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-11-induction-warmer/)
Reader failure

- [E-12](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-12-induction-warmer/)
User interface

- [E-13](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e-13-induction-warmer/)
Oven sensor

- [RTD ERROR](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-rtd-error-wall-oven/)
Meat probe

- [PROBE ERROR](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-probe-error-wall-oven/)
Door latch

- [LATCH ERROR](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-latch-error-wall-oven/)
The same two digits mean different things across generations.							[

								Search the full code list

							](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/)

Models that can display this code

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										VGIC5302									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vgic5302/)
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										VGIC5362									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vgic5362/)
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										VGIC5482									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vgic5482/)
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										VGR5304									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vgr5304/)
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										VGR5484									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vgr5484/)
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										VDR5304									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vdr5304/)
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										VDR5484									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vdr5484/)
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										VIR5304									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vir5304/)
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										VRT5364									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vrt5364/)
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										VICU5361									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vicu5361/)
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										VECU5361									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vecu5361/)
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										VGSU5361									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vgsu5361/)
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										VUIW518									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vuiw518/)
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										VSOE530									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vsoe530/)
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										VDOE530									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vdoe530/)
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										VWD530									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vwd530/)
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										VMOC506									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vmoc506/)
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										VMOD5240									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vmod5240/)
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										VWH536481									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vwh536481/)
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										VMOR506									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vmor506/)
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										VDD5360									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vdd5360/)
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										FRUI5242D									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-frui5242d/)
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										FDUI5242D									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-fdui5242d/)
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										VDUO5241D									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vduo5241d/)
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										FWUI5242G									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-fwui5242g/)
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										FWUI5152G									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-fwui5152g/)
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										FIUI5152D									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-fiui5152d/)
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										FNIU515D									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-fniu515d/)
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										VBFIC1152D									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vbfic1152d/)
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										VQGI5361									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vqgi5361/)
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										VQGI5421									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vqgi5421/)
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										VQGSB5131									](https://vikingmiami.support/models/viking-vqgsb5131/)
The number on the data plate decides which parts exist and how quickly they arrive.							[

								All models

							](https://vikingmiami.support/models/)

In more detail

## About Viking incogneeto induction warmer error code E-16

### What Viking publishes for it

On a Viking incogneeto induction warmer, the manufacturer publishes this for a critical error. That sentence is Viking’s own, read out of the code table in its Use and Care manual for this equipment rather than worked out from the outside. Everything below it — what the condition covers and what is worth doing first — is ours, written from what this equipment does in Miami kitchens.

### Which alphabet this belongs to

The Incogneeto is an induction hob installed underneath the countertop, so the stone or quartz sits between the coil and the pan. It has a small alphanumeric display and it is the only appliance on this make that writes an E-0n on it.

### What it covers

What a published cause names is a circuit rather than a component, which is the single most useful thing to know before anybody orders a part. This one covers:

- The control, with no further breakdown published

### Worth knowing before you call

Viking publishes no owner step against this one, and neither do we. It is a condition for a technician rather than for the person standing in front of it, which is the honest reading of a code with nothing an owner can act on. Have the model and serial number ready and it becomes a short conversation rather than a long one.

### Then what

A control condition that survives five minutes genuinely off at the breaker is a control condition. One that does not, was a supply interruption — and in a summer of afternoon storms and brownouts, this coast supplies plenty of those. Note which of the two happened; it is the single most useful thing you can tell us.

Viking publishes this one for the the Incogneeto under-counter induction warmer — that is cooktops & rangetops on this site. The [full Viking archive](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/) has the other conditions, searchable, and it is worth knowing that the same token can mean two different things on two different Viking machines, so the group above is part of the answer. We repair this equipment across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

This article is based on:

- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards

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