GE Profile wall hood with Clean Air Sensors: filter signal light is on
These GE Profile wall hoods count the fan's on-time and light a signal once 30 hours have passed.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Filter reminders
- Range hood filter and baffle service
- Source: GE Profile
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What Grease filter signal light
actually means.
These GE Profile wall hoods count the fan's on-time and light a signal once 30 hours have passed. It is a timed prompt to wash the metal grease filters, which can go in the dishwasher. The guide explains when it lights but not how to clear it from the keypad.
GE Profile range hood display
What to do when Grease filter signal light 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.
MakeGE Profile
GE Profile hoods and downdraft vents get fixed in your kitchen, starting with a check of the breaker and the hood's own switch.
SourceGE Profile wall hood with Clean Air Sensors owner's manual 49-7000239 (PVW1030, PVW1036)
GE Profile PVW1030 (30-inch pyramid chimney) and PVW1036 (36-inch) wall hoods with Clean Air Sensors, owner's manual 49-7000239. The manual does not describe how to reset the signal light.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from GE Profile's own guidance for Grease filter signal light on its range hoods. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
With the hood off and cool, push each grease filter back and down by its knob to remove it.
Wash the filters by hand in hot soapy water or in the dishwasher with non-abrasive soap, and let them dry.
Refit them in the lower set of filter holders, as GE specifies.
If the light stays on after cleaning, check the SmartHQ app for the hood or 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
The signal light is a run-time count, not a measurement of airflow or a blower warning. The color-changing light on the same panel is the air-quality indicator, which is a separate sensor.
What you may
notice with it.
The range hood problems Grease filter signal light tends to arrive with. Answer these at the range hood before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Grease filter signal light usually leads
Range hood filter and baffle service.
GE Profile
range hoods.
GE Profile hoods and downdraft vents get fixed in your kitchen, starting with a check of the breaker and the hood's own switch.
GE Profile range hood repairMore GE Profile 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 GE Profile's own words
A signal light will alert you when 30 hours has passed.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. GE Profile PVW1030 (30-inch pyramid chimney) and PVW1036 (36-inch) wall hoods with Clean Air Sensors, owner's manual 49-7000239. The manual does not describe how to reset the signal light.
GE Profile Grease filter signal light range hood repair,
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Questions
about Grease filter signal light.
Can I clear Grease filter signal light myself?
How often will the filter light come on on my GE Profile wall hood?
Which filter does the GE Profile signal light refer to?
My GE Profile filters are clean but the signal light is still on. Now what?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Grease filter signal light?
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.