Miele charcoal filter symbol lit: recirculation filters due for replacement
In recirculation mode a Miele hood counts time on the charcoal filters separately from the grease filters.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Filter reminders
- Range hood filter and baffle service
- Source: Miele
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What Charcoal filter symbol lit
actually means.
In recirculation mode a Miele hood counts time on the charcoal filters separately from the grease filters. The DA 6698 W default is 180 hours, adjustable to 120 or 240, or off for a hood vented outside. When the time is up, the charcoal filter symbol lights.
Miele range hood display · also shown as Filter saturation indicator (charcoal)
What to do when Charcoal filter symbol lit 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.
MakeMiele
Miele range hoods are serviced at home, with filter reminders and automatic settings separated from real failures on the first visit.
SourceMiele DA 6698 W Operating and Installation Instructions (en-US)
DA 6698 W wall hood in recirculation mode.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Miele's own guidance for Charcoal filter symbol lit on its range hoods. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Fit new charcoal filters as the instructions show, taking the grease filters out first.
Put the grease filters back.
With the blower on, touch the charcoal filter control for about three seconds until only the level 1 light flashes; the symbol goes out.
Book a visit if the symbol will not clear.
Still there?
It usually turns into range hood filter and baffle service. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
This symbol is not about the washable grease filters. On a hood that vents outdoors the charcoal indicator should be switched off, so a lit charcoal symbol there is a setting to correct.
What you may
notice with it.
The range hood problems Charcoal filter symbol lit tends to arrive with. Answer these at the range hood before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Charcoal filter symbol lit usually leads
Range hood filter and baffle service.
Miele
range hoods.
Miele range hoods are serviced at home, with filter reminders and automatic settings separated from real failures on the first visit.
Miele range hood repairMore Miele 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 Miele's own words
changed by lighting up the grease filter
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. DA 6698 W wall hood in recirculation mode.
Miele Charcoal filter symbol lit 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 Charcoal filter symbol lit.
Can I clear Charcoal filter symbol lit myself?
My Miele hood is ducted outside. Why is the charcoal symbol on?
How long do Miele charcoal filters last?
Do I reset the Miele charcoal count with the hood on or off?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Charcoal filter symbol lit?
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.