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Viking wall oven error code SENSOR ERROR

Viking wall oven error code SENSOR ERROR: this make shows the message rather than a number, and the manufacturer publishes this for the sensor not detecting vapour properly in microwave sensor mode. What sets it off and what to check first.

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What we can confirm

Code SENSOR ERROR, 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, for 5 Series, Designer Series, Professional Custom.

The code

SENSOR ERROR

The manufacturer publishes this for the sensor not detecting vapour properly in microwave sensor mode

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What it narrows down to

Vapour sensor

What you are probably seeing

Microwave controls behaving oddly

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What it looks like from the kitchen

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.

SENSOR ERROR is usually not a problem
Microwave controls behaving oddly

Programs that stop early, a message about the sensor, or a panel that responds to the wrong key. On this make one of the common messages here is not a failure at all.
- SENSOR ERROR during an automatic program
- A program that stops before it should
- Keys responding intermittently
What it usually means

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

Key error

Temperature sensor

Over temperature

Relay error

Control error

Software error

Keyboard, ambient light

LED test error

Keyboard error

Communication error

The same two digits mean different things across generations. Search the full code list

Models that can display this code

The number on the data plate decides which parts exist and how quickly they arrive. All models

In more detail

About Viking wall oven error code SENSOR ERROR

What Viking publishes for it

On a Viking wall oven, the manufacturer publishes this for the sensor not detecting vapour properly in microwave sensor mode. 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 ovens on this make spell it out: the display carries a word, not a number. Five of these messages name the part outright — the temperature probe, the door latch, the keyboard — which is unusually direct and worth taking at face value.

What sets it off

A message rather than a number is deliberately broad — the appliance is telling you it noticed something, not which part is responsible. This one comes on for:

The humidity sensor used by the automatic programs, not the oven's temperature sensor
A covered dish, or food too small for the program
The door being opened during the sensing part of the cycle

Worth trying yourself, in this order

Press STOP/CLEAR and finish by time rather than by sensor
Uncover the dish and start the program again from a cold cavity

Then what

A sensor reading out of range is one of the more honest things an appliance can say: it names a circuit rather than a symptom. The part is usually inexpensive; the labor is in reaching it. Have the model number ready when you call, because on this make the same sensor sits in three different places depending on the series.

Viking publishes this one for the wall ovens, combi steam ovens and speed ovens — that is wall ovens & warming drawers and ranges and microwaves on this site. The full Viking archive 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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