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HEART actuators.short-cycling H-09004

Short-cycling. It switches on and off far too often.

CodeHEART actuators.short-cycling; inside a message "code": "actuators.short-cycling"
H-numberH-09004: area 09, code 004
Areaactuators: Motors, valves, heaters, compressors
Typical severitywarning. A product may set another for its own case.
Applies toHeating, cooling, compressors, pumps, burners

Likely causes

How to fix or prevent it

  1. Check the sensor and its place.
  2. Widen the on-off gap, or set a minimum run time.
  3. Check flow, filters and pumps.

What the HEART does by itself

It raises a warning, often with a cause such as sensors.drift. A Playbook may set a minimum run time, if the product allows it. It resolves when cycling is back to normal.

When to call service

If it continues: short-cycling wears compressors and burners fast.


Inside a message a code is written bare, "code": "storage.full". In logs, tickets, documents and searches it is written HEART storage.full. Things that simply happen, such as system.started, are event types, not faults. The codes are defined in Part 3, Section 5.4, and their H-numbers in Section 5.7. All of it, as data: fault-codes.json.

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