Wine Guardian high temperature alarm: the cellar is above its alarm limit
When the cellar rises above the high temperature alarm setpoint (setting 3, 65°F from the factory), the remote flashes the temperature with the (!) symbol.
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- Temperature and alarms
- Cellar cooling load and room check
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What Flashing temperature with (!)
actually means.
When the cellar rises above the high temperature alarm setpoint (setting 3, 65°F from the factory), the remote flashes the temperature with the (!) symbol. It stays until the cellar falls back below that limit. It is expected after start-up or after a reset, while the unit pulls the room down; if it appears during normal running, the unit is not keeping up.
Wine Guardian wine cellar cooling unit display · also shown as High temperature alarm, !
What to do when Flashing temperature with (!) shows on the wine cellar cooling unitKind of codeTemperature and alarms
The controller saw the cellar go past a high or low limit and raised an alarm, sometimes holding the worst reading it logged while the house was empty. The reason can be as small as the cellar door left ajar after a tasting or a long outage, a room gaining heat from new lights or a sunny glass wall, or as serious as cooling that has stopped. Keep the door shut and read a thermometer on a middle rack before touching anything; the alarm is a warning about the collection, not yet a diagnosis.
Usually leads toCellar cooling load and room check
Measuring the cellar as the cooling unit sees it: insulation, vapor barrier, door, glass and the heat load, to show whether the unit can ever keep up.
Shows up asWine Cellar Too Warm
A wine cellar too warm shows up slowly: the room smells of the house instead of cool stone, a bottle picked from a middle rack feels barely cooler than your hand, and the wall thermometer has crept from the mid 50s into the 60s over a week.
MakeWine Guardian
Wine Guardian systems examined at the cellar, the ductwork and the equipment space when the air stops holding its temperature or its moisture.
SourceWine Guardian Remote Interface Operation Guide
Wine Guardian Remote Interface controller, used with through-the-wall, ducted, ducted split, ductless split and ceiling-mounted units; the Sentinel-series ducted manuals (Dec 2022) list the same alarms. The factory high alarm setting is 65°F.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Wine Guardian's own guidance for Flashing temperature with (!) on its wine cellar cooling units. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the cooling symbol: if the unit is running and was recently started or reset, give it time, since first pull-down can take several hours or more.
Keep the cellar door shut and check it seals; if the room passes about 70°F, move the most valuable bottles somewhere cooler.
Look for another alarm on the screen, such as !1 or !2, that would explain why the unit stopped.
If the unit is running and the reading keeps climbing, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into cellar cooling load and room check. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
The flashing (!) beside the temperature is an alarm about the room, not a code from inside the unit. A flashing snowflake is different: it is the five-minute delay before cooling starts.
What you may
notice with it.
The wine cellar cooling unit problems Flashing temperature with (!) tends to arrive with. Answer these at the wine cellar cooling unit before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Flashing temperature with (!) usually leads
Cellar cooling load and room check.
Wine Guardian
wine cellar cooling units.
Wine Guardian systems examined at the cellar, the ductwork and the equipment space when the air stops holding its temperature or its moisture.
Wine Guardian wine cellar cooling unit repairMore Wine Guardian codes
Temperature and alarms on other makes
All 16 codes of this kind
Through-the-wall cellar cooling unit
A self-contained box set into an opening in the cellar wall: its cold face blows into the wine room, and its warm face breathes out into the room next door.
Ducted cellar cooling unit
A self-contained cooling unit placed outside the cellar, in a mechanical room, attic or basement, that sends chilled air in and takes return air back through insulated ducts.
Split-system cellar cooling
An evaporator inside or beside the cellar and a condensing unit outside or in another room, joined by an insulated copper line set and charged on site.
In Wine Guardian's own words
Flashing temperature number along with (!) symbol will remain on screen until temperature falls below the High Temperature Alarm set point (Setting 3).
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Wine Guardian Remote Interface controller, used with through-the-wall, ducted, ducted split, ductless split and ceiling-mounted units; the Sentinel-series ducted manuals (Dec 2022) list the same alarms. The factory high alarm setting is 65°F.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Flashing temperature with (!)?
When you book, type the code or the blink count as the controller shows it, add the full model number, and say what the thermometer in the cellar reads now — that gives the technician a head start.