--- title: "Samsung dryer showing AC | DryerRepair.center" description: "What AC means on Samsung dryers, what to check before booking, and when it is not a failure at all." url: "https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-ac/" --- # Samsung dryer showing AC AC and the codes grouped with it mean the dryer's internal components have stopped communicating with one another. ## What AC actually means. AC and the codes grouped with it mean the dryer's internal components have stopped communicating with one another. Samsung dryer display · also shown as Et, AE, EEE, AE3, AE4, AE5, E3, 1 AC What to do when AC shows on the dryer ### Kind of code Communication The main control board and the display board have stopped talking to each other. The harness and its connectors are checked before either board. ### Usually leads to Controls and sensors A blank display, a panel that ignores buttons, codes, or cycles that end too soon or never end, traced to the board, timer or sensors. ### Shows up as Dryer Control Panel Not Responding Buttons do nothing, the dial turns without effect, or the display is frozen or flickering. ### Make Samsung Full-size and stacked dryers in electric and gas versions, built around electronic controls and sensor drying. ### Source Samsung US support: Samsung dryer displays an error code Samsung dryers; spellings include Et, AE, EEE, AE3, AE4, AE5, E3 and 1 AC. ## Before you book, in this order. Each step comes from Samsung's own guidance for AC on its dryers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit. 01 Switch the dryer off for 60 seconds, then turn it back on. 02 Book a visit if the code remains. ### Still there? It usually turns into [controls and sensors](https://dryerrepair.center/services/controls-and-sensors/). Book with the code and the model number. ### What not to do On a Samsung dryer, AE is part of this communication group; it is not a leak code as it can be on other appliances. ## What you may notice with it. The dryer problems AC tends to arrive with. Answer these at the dryer before anyone is booked. [All problems](https://dryerrepair.center/problems/) Before you call ### [Dryer Control Panel Not Responding](https://dryerrepair.center/problems/control-panel-not-responding/) [All 5 causes, cheapest first](https://dryerrepair.center/problems/control-panel-not-responding/) It also comes with - [**Dryer Error Code**](https://dryerrepair.center/problems/dryer-error-code/) Problem ### Dryer Control Panel Not Responding 5 causes, cheapest first Where AC usually leads ## Controls and sensors. **Control board, timer or moisture sensor · moderate.** Book a visit [What the job involves](https://dryerrepair.center/services/controls-and-sensors/) ## Samsung dryers. Full-size and stacked dryers in electric and gas versions, built around electronic controls and sensor drying. [Samsung dryer repair](https://dryerrepair.center/brands/samsung/) More Samsung codes [HC](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-hc/) [HC2](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-hc2/) [tC](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-tc/) [dC](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-dc/) [3C](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-3c/) [C90](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-c90/) [dn](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-dn/) Communication on other makes [ASKO E0](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/asko-e0/) [Kenmore E10](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/kenmore-417-e10/) [Whirlpool F6 E1](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/whirlpool-f6e1/) [All 5 codes of this kind](https://dryerrepair.center/error-codes/#family-communication) Samsung builds this ### Electric dryer The most common dryer in US homes: a 240-volt heating coil, a belt-driven drum and a vent to the outside. Samsung builds this ### Gas dryer Heat from a burner on natural gas or propane, lit by an igniter and watched over by a flame sensor, with the motor on 120 volts. Samsung builds this ### Stackable dryer The dryer half of a stacked pair or a single-frame laundry center, where the height and the closet decide how the repair is done. ## In Samsung's own words > This code means the dryer's internal components cannot communicate with each other. [Samsung US support: Samsung dryer displays an error code](https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshoot/TSG10001006/) [Samsung US support: Samsung dryer displays an error code](https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshoot/TSG10001006/) Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Samsung dryers; spellings include Et, AE, EEE, AE3, AE4, AE5, E3 and 1 AC. ## Samsung AC dryer repair, where we come out. 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