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Wolf dual fuel range error code: probe shorted

Wolf error code, the kind with no number: probe shorted on a dual fuel range — a switching device is passing current when the control has told it to stop, on a dual fuel range, which is two appliances on one chassis: gas burners above, an electric oven below, and one control board answering for both. What it covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you, on ranges.

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What we can confirm

Code PROBE SHORTED, 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 Dual fuel range legacy.

The code

PROBE SHORTED

A switching device is passing current when the control has told it to stop, on a dual fuel range, which is two appliances on one chassis: gas burners above, an electric oven below, and one control board answering for both

What it narrows down to

Temperature probe failure

What you are probably seeing

Oven temperature wrong or uneven

Diagnostic

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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.

  • The black control panel of a built-in oven in walnut cabinetry, two dials marked with a temperature scale
    Obedient, and aiming at the wrong number

    Oven temperature wrong or uneven

    An oven that heats perfectly to a temperature that is not the one you set, or that burns on one side and undercooks on the other. Almost always a measurement problem rather than a heating one.

    • Everything browning too fast or too slowly
    • One side or one shelf consistently darker
    • Baking that changed without anything else changing
    What it usually means

On the same generation

What else belongs to the Dual fuel range legacy

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

Door lock or unlock switches not sensed within 60 seconds

Over temperature occurs when the oven reaches a temperature of 630°F

Open circuit detected on RTD oven sensor

Shorted circuit detected on the RTD sensor

SPI communication lost from ECH to the control board as reported by

EEPROM checksum is incorrect. Checked at power-up

Meat probe detected as shorted

Analog to digital error during calibration phase

Power relay shorted, sensed as closed when should be open

Power surges or outages may trigger this error

No published cause

Communication lost with the oven controller

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

In more detail

About Wolf dual fuel range error code: probe shorted

What this one means

A switching device is passing current when the control has told it to stop, on a dual fuel range, which is two appliances on one chassis: gas burners above, an electric oven below, and one control board answering for both. This is a code without a number: the panel spells it out in words rather than digits, which is how the older controls on this make report a handful of conditions. What it means comes from the manufacturer's own documentation rather than from us.

How it shows on the display

There is no number to write down here, so this is what the panel actually shows:

  • PROBE SHORTED

What sets it off

An alarm is deliberately broad — it tells you the cabinet noticed something, not which part is responsible. This one comes on for:

  • A relay welded closed by years of switching a heavy load
  • A triac that has failed short
  • The element circuit that relay or triac feeds
  • Temperature probe failure

Worth doing before you call

  1. Check whether the burners still light — gas and electric fail independently here
  2. Switch the appliance off at the breaker if it is heating with nothing selected

Then what

A stuck relay is the one error in this archive that can heat with nothing asked of it, so it is a breaker-off condition rather than a wait-and-see one. The board carrying it is a replacement part.

This one appears on ranges. The full list of codes has the rest of them, searchable, including the labels older and newer machines use for the same conditions.

This article is based on:

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

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