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A wine cellar controller on a stone wall showing a warm two-digit reading with an alarm symbol lit, the cooling unit's grille above it and racks of unlabeled bottles to one side.

Wine-Mate LA: the cellar is colder than its alarm limit

LA is the low temperature alarm, the counterpart of HA.

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  • Cellar cooling load and room check
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What LA
actually means.

LA is the low temperature alarm, the counterpart of HA. With default settings it comes on once the cellar reads more than 10° under the setpoint for longer than the alarm delay, and it clears itself when the temperature returns. The controller leaves its outputs as they were.

Wine-Mate wine cellar cooling unit display

What to do when LA shows on the wine cellar cooling unit

Kind 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 asCellar Cooling Unit Error Code

A cellar cooling unit error code appears as letters or digits on the controller, a flashing reading, a blinking light on the unit, or an alarm tone, sometimes while the cellar still holds its temperature.

MakeWine-Mate

Wine-Mate cooling units repaired on site when they will not start, ice over, trip a breaker or leave the walls wet.

SourceWine-Mate HZD self-contained cooling system manual

Current Wine-Mate five-button controller, as printed in the HZD, HZD-DE, 4510-series HZD, HTD, low-profile and SSH, SSD and SSO split-system manuals. Wi-Fi touchscreen and SMART controllers print no display codes.

Before you book,
in this order.

Each step comes from Wine-Mate's own guidance for LA on its wine cellar cooling units. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.

01

Check the setpoint; Wine-Mate recommends 55°F for aging wine.

02

Think about the space around the cellar: Wine-Mate lists a low ambient temperature as a cause, and its controllers can switch a separate forced-air heater.

03

Make sure the air probe is not sitting in the cold air leaving the unit.

04

If the room keeps falling with the unit running, book a visit to check the controller and probe.

Still there?

It usually turns into cellar cooling load and room check. Book with the code and the model number.

What not to do

LA on the display is not the -LA at the end of a split-system model number, which marks a low ambient kit. It also does not always mean the unit is overcooling, since a cold basement can take the room down while the unit sits idle.

What you may
notice with it.

The wine cellar cooling unit problems LA tends to arrive with. Answer these at the wine cellar cooling unit before anyone is booked.

All problems

Before you call

Cellar Cooling Unit Error Code

All 8 causes, cheapest first

It also comes with

The small controller panel on the cellar side of a through-the-wall cooling unit, its display glowing with abstract amber segments beside the slotted supply grille, the top row of a wooden wine rack with unlabeled bottles just below. Problem

Cellar Cooling Unit Error Code

8 causes, cheapest first

Where LA usually leads

Cellar cooling load and room check.

Cooling load and room survey · lowest.
Book a visit What the job involves

Wine-Mate
wine cellar cooling units.

Wine-Mate cooling units repaired on site when they will not start, ice over, trip a breaker or leave the walls wet.

Wine-Mate wine cellar cooling unit repair

More Wine-Mate codes

P1HACAHILOdFPOF

Temperature and alarms on other makes

Breezaire E1CellarCool AH1CellarPro HAKoolR ALWhisperKOOL AH1Wine Guardian Flashing temperature with (!)
All 14 codes of this kind
A wine cellar cooling unit set into the upper part of a stone wall in a US home wine cellar, its cellar-side grille flush with the wall above dark wood racks full of wine bottles, cool soft lighting. Wine-Mate builds this

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.

 A wine cellar in a US home seen from inside, a white rectangular supply grille for its cooling unit set in the wood-paneled ceiling above tall dark racks of wine bottles, a matching return grille low on the far wall, soft even lighting. Wine-Mate builds this

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.

 A slim white split-system wine cellar evaporator unit mounted high on a plastered wall of a US home wine cellar above curved wooden racks of wine bottles without labels, insulated copper lines entering the wall beside it, warm low lighting. Wine-Mate builds this

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-Mate's own words

LA Low temperature alarm
Wine-Mate HZD self-contained cooling system manual Wine-Mate HZD self-contained cooling system manual Wine-Mate SSD split ceiling-mounted cooling system manual Wine-Mate HZD self-contained cooling system manual

Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Current Wine-Mate five-button controller, as printed in the HZD, HZD-DE, 4510-series HZD, HTD, low-profile and SSH, SSD and SSO split-system manuals. Wi-Fi touchscreen and SMART controllers print no display codes.

Wine-Mate LA wine cellar cooling unit 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
about LA.

Can I clear LA myself?
Check the setpoint; Wine-Mate recommends 55°F for aging wine. If it comes back, it needs a visit.
Is LA on my display related to the -LA in my model number?
No. On the display, LA is the low temperature alarm; at the end of a Wine-Mate split model number, LA means the condensing unit has a low ambient kit for sites below 50°F.
Can a Wine-Mate warm a cellar that is too cold?
The cooling unit does not heat, but controllers with the heater function can switch a forced-air heater through the SAA and SHy settings. With the factory values the heater comes on at 36°F and goes off at 40°F.
Why does LA show when my thermometer says the room is fine?
The probe may be sitting in the cold supply air or may need calibrating. Wine-Mate's ot setting offsets the probe by the difference between the real cellar temperature and the setpoint.

Back to your everyday

Still showing LA?

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.

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