Faber filter light flashing: 200 hours on the charcoal filter
If the charcoal alarm has been switched on, Faber hoods count 200 working hours and then flash the alarm: S1 on the Highlight, the speed two and intensive lights on the Inca Lux Premium.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Filter reminders
- Range hood filter and baffle service
- Source: Faber
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What Filter alarm LED flashing
actually means.
If the charcoal alarm has been switched on, Faber hoods count 200 working hours and then flash the alarm: S1 on the Highlight, the speed two and intensive lights on the Inca Lux Premium. Faber asks for new charcoal filters and clean grease filters at the same time.
Faber range hood display · also shown as S1 LED flashing, speed two and intensive lights blinking, charcoal filter saturation alarm
What to do when Filter alarm LED flashing shows on the range hoodKind of codeFilter reminders
The hood has counted enough hours of fan time to ask for its filters: the mesh or baffle grease filters want a wash, or on a recirculating hood the charcoal filters want replacing. Most hoods count hours rather than measure grease, so the light comes on whether the filters are clean or not, and it stays on until it is reset with the key the manual names. A reminder that returns straight after a reset, or a hood that still pulls weakly with fresh filters, is worth a visit.
Usually leads toRange hood filter and baffle service
Cleaning or replacing what catches grease and odor: mesh and baffle filters, charcoal pads on recirculating hoods, and the grease channel.
Shows up asReading a Range Hood Error Code or Blinking Light
A range hood error code may appear as letters and numbers on a display, a light that blinks in a pattern, a filter reminder that will not clear, or a beep with the fan refusing to start.
MakeFaber
A Faber range hood that runs on only one speed, or hums without spinning, gets a visit that starts at its speed control.
SourceFaber Highlight island hood installation, use and care guide
Highlight and Inca Lux Premium. The charcoal alarm is off until enabled; the LEDs flash twice to confirm it was turned on.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Faber's own guidance for Filter alarm LED flashing on its range hoods. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Fit new charcoal filters and wash the metal grease filters with the hood off.
Reset the alarm with the same long press used for the grease filter alarm, with motor and lights off.
If the hood is ducted outside, turn the charcoal alarm off in the manual's setup so it stops counting.
Book a visit if the flashing will not reset.
Still there?
It usually turns into range hood filter and baffle service. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
The flashing is not a board problem and has nothing to do with the lights. A steady light, not flashing, is only the grease filter.
What you may
notice with it.
The range hood problems Filter alarm LED flashing tends to arrive with. Answer these at the range hood before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Filter alarm LED flashing usually leads
Range hood filter and baffle service.
Faber
range hoods.
A Faber range hood that runs on only one speed, or hums without spinning, gets a visit that starts at its speed control.
Faber range hood repairMore Faber codes
Filter reminders on other makes
Wall-mount range hood
The chimney hood fixed to a bare stretch of wall above the burners, its canopy catching the rising smoke while a telescoping cover hides the duct that climbs to the ceiling.
Under-cabinet range hood
The slim hood screwed to the bottom of the wall cabinet over the burners, venting up through that cabinet or back through the wall, or cleaning the air and returning it to the room.
Island range hood
The hood that hangs from the ceiling over burners set into a kitchen island, open on all four sides, with its duct and wiring hidden inside a chimney that drops from above.
In Faber's own words
The Activated Charcoal Filter saturation alarm turns on after the Hood has been working for 200 hours.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Highlight and Inca Lux Premium. The charcoal alarm is off until enabled; the LEDs flash twice to confirm it was turned on.
Faber Filter alarm LED flashing range hood 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.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about Filter alarm LED flashing.
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Why does my ducted Faber flash the filter light?
Do I wash Faber charcoal filters?
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Filter alarm LED flashing?
Three things make the booking useful: the letters or blink pattern exactly as they showed, the full model number from the label behind the filters, and whether the fan still moves air on every speed. With those, the technician arrives with half the answer already worked out.