Samsung dryer
showing AC
AC and the codes grouped with it mean the dryer's internal components have stopped communicating with one another.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Communication
- Controls and sensors
- Source: Samsung
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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 dryerKind of codeCommunication
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 toControls 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 asDryer Control Panel Not Responding
Buttons do nothing, the dial turns without effect, or the display is frozen or flickering.
MakeSamsung
Full-size and stacked dryers in electric and gas versions, built around electronic controls and sensor drying.
SourceSamsung 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.
Switch the dryer off for 60 seconds, then turn it back on.
Book a visit if the code remains.
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
Dryer Control Panel Not Responding
5 causes, cheapest first
Where AC usually leads
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
Electric dryer
The most common dryer in US homes: a 240-volt heating coil, a belt-driven drum and a vent to the outside.
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.
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.
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.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
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Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing AC?
Book with the code exactly as displayed, the whole model number, and whether you smell burning or gas — for a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.