Faber filter light on steady: 100 hours, wash the grease filters
Faber's electronic controls count working hours and signal the grease filter alarm at 100 hours.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Filter reminders
- Range hood filter and baffle service
- Source: Faber
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What Filter alarm LED on (steady)
actually means.
Faber's electronic controls count working hours and signal the grease filter alarm at 100 hours. On the Highlight it is the S1 LED lit steady; on the Inca Lux Premium it is the speed two and intensive buttons lit together. The light stays until the filters are washed and the alarm is reset.
Faber range hood display · also shown as S1 LED on, speed two and intensive buttons lit, grease filter saturation alarm
What to do when Filter alarm LED on (steady) 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 island hood (S1 LED) and Inca Lux Premium insert (speed two and intensive lit); other Faber controls may differ.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Faber's own guidance for Filter alarm LED on (steady) on its range hoods. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Take the metal grease filters out with the hood off and wash them by hand or in the dishwasher.
Reset: on the Highlight, with motor and lights off, hold the button for about 3 seconds until S1 flashes three times; on the Inca Lux Premium, a long press with motor and lights off until all LEDs flash three times.
If the light stays on after a correct reset, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into range hood filter and baffle service. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
A steady light is the grease filter only; the same light flashing means the charcoal filter alarm. It does not mean the motor or a speed has failed.
What you may
notice with it.
The range hood problems Filter alarm LED on (steady) tends to arrive with. Answer these at the range hood before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Filter alarm LED on (steady) 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
Signals the Metal Grease Filter saturation alarm, indicating that it is necessary to wash the filters.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Highlight island hood (S1 LED) and Inca Lux Premium insert (speed two and intensive lit); other Faber controls may differ.
Faber Filter alarm LED on (steady) 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 on (steady).
Can I clear Filter alarm LED on (steady) myself?
Why are two buttons lit on my Faber insert when the fan is off?
How do I reset the Faber filter alarm?
How often will a Faber hood ask for filter cleaning?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Filter alarm LED on (steady)?
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.