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Warning signs · Viking ovens
Why is the door lock light flashing on my Viking oven?
A flashing lock indicator and a steady one are two different messages. On many ovens the light blinks while the latch is still travelling, or after it started moving and never reported that it arrived. Give it several minutes with the oven switched off. If it keeps blinking, book the latch in with Viking Repair Pros of Los Angeles.
What you can see, what it means, what to do now
See it
Whatever your control uses to show the lock, it is blinking instead of sitting still. The door may open perfectly well while it does this, or it may refuse. Everything else on the panel behaves as it always has.
What it means
On an oven that locks its own door, a small motor drives the latch and a switch tells the control where it has got to. Blinking is usually the in-between state: the motor was asked to move and the switch has not yet agreed that it finished.
What to do tonight
Switch the oven off at the control and leave it alone for a few minutes rather than pressing anything else. Then try the handle gently. Do not force it, and do not put a tool in the door gap to help the latch along.
Still doing it after that? Call Viking Repair Pros of Los Angeles on (213) 652-7030. The $89 visit covers the fault-finding and comes off the repair.
Flashing and steady are not the same report
Two ovens can light the same lock symbol and mean opposite things by it. Steady usually reports a finished job: the door is held and the control is content to leave it there. Blinking reports movement, or movement that was asked for and never confirmed, and that is the version worth attention. If you were nowhere near a cleaning cycle when it began, note what the oven was doing at the time. That single detail narrows the search more than anything else you can tell a technician.
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Follow-ups
Is it safe to cook while the light blinks?
If the door opens and shuts as normal and the oven heats as it should, cooking on it is not the risk. The risk is starting a clean cycle, because that hands the whole job to the latch you already have doubts about. Leave the cleaning alone and book a look at it.
Will cutting the power stop it blinking?
Taking the power away at the breaker for a few minutes is worth one attempt, and on some ovens the control starts again with the latch parked where it belongs. On others the light returns exactly as it was. That second outcome is your answer: call (213) 652-7030 and have it seen.
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Birgit Halloran
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- ovens and heating
- Time served
- 24 years
