--- title: "KitchenAid electric cooktop error code F03" description: "KitchenAid electric cooktop error code F03: There is an internal communication error on the touch control module." url: "https://kitchenaidmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-f03-cooktop/" date_modified: "2026-08-23" Appliance type: "Cooktops" --- # KitchenAid electric cooktop error code F03 ### What KitchenAid publishes for F03 on a electric cooktop There is an internal communication error on the touch control module. That sentence is KitchenAid’s own, read off its published support page for this condition on a electric cooktop rather than worked out from the outside. Everything under it is ours, written from what this equipment does in Miami kitchens. ### The power cycle is a test, not a repair The whole of what KitchenAid publishes to do about F03 on a electric cooktop is a one-minute cycle at the breaker. Do it, and read the result rather than the instruction. Cutting power clears the stored code and makes the control re-read every circuit from cold. If the condition was a one-off — a control interrupted mid-write, a reading that went out of range once — the code does not come back and there is nothing to repair. **If it comes back, the reset has told you something.** The condition is live, the circuit is still reporting, and a second power cycle will not change that. From there it is a diagnosis rather than a procedure. #### KitchenAid’s own steps, in its order - Power unit down by turning off the circuit breaker(s) for one (1) minute. - Power unit up by turning on the circuit breaker(s). - Monitor the cooktop for one (1) minute to ensure the error code does not display again. - Verify cooktop operation. ### Then what F03 is also published for the [range](https://kitchenaidmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-f03-range/) on this make, and it does not mean the same thing there. Read the page for the machine that is actually showing it — that is why every title in this archive names an appliance. One more thing worth saying plainly: **this code is not this badge’s alone.** KitchenAid shares its control platform with the other names in the same group, and the same page for F03 sits at the same address under more than one of them. That is useful rather than awkward — it means the code names the subsystem and the model number names the machine, so the plate on the door frame is half of every answer here. The [full KitchenAid code archive](https://kitchenaidmiami.support/error-codes/) holds the rest, searchable. Tell us the model number and exactly what the display is showing and we will tell you what it points at before anybody is booked. We repair this equipment across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Electric cooktop What this one means What KitchenAid publishes for F03 on a electric cooktop There is an internal communication error on the touch control module. That sentence is KitchenAid’s own, read off its published support page for this condition on a electric cooktop rather than worked out from the outside. Everything under it is ours, written from what this equipment does in Miami kitchens. The power cycle is a test, not a repair The whole of what KitchenAid publishes to do about F03 on a electric cooktop is a one-minute cycle at the breaker. Do it, and read the result rather than the instruction. Cutting power clears the stored code and makes the control re-read every circuit from cold. If the condition was a one-off — a control interrupted mid-write, a reading that went out of range once — the code does not come back and there is nothing to repair. If it comes back, the reset has told you something. The condition is live, the circuit is still reporting, and a second power cycle will not change that. From there it is a diagnosis rather than a procedure. KitchenAid’s own steps, in its order Power unit down by turning off the circuit breaker(s) for one (1) minute. Power unit up by turning on the circuit breaker(s). Monitor the cooktop for one (1) minute to ensure the error code does not display again. Verify cooktop operation. Then what F03 is also published for the range on this make, and it does not mean the same thing there. Read the page for the machine that is actually showing it — that is why every title in this archive names an appliance. One more thing worth saying plainly: this code is not this badge’s alone. KitchenAid shares its control platform with the other names in the same group, and the same page for F03 sits at the same address under more than one of them. That is useful rather than awkward — it means the code names the subsystem and the model number names the machine, so the plate on the door frame is half of every answer here. The full KitchenAid code archive holds the rest, searchable. Tell us the model number and exactly what the display is showing and we will tell you what it points at before anybody is booked. We repair this equipment across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. --- **[Read full article: KitchenAid electric cooktop error code F03](https://kitchenaidmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-f03-cooktop/)**