Hobart 080: a delime cycle is required
The LXn schedules deliming from its water hardness setting and use, and prompts with Delime Required.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Hobart
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What 080
actually means.
The LXn schedules deliming from its water hardness setting and use, and prompts with Delime Required. Start Delime Cycle? When that prompt is declined ten times and the lockout is on, the machine locks with 080. Running a delime cycle resets the reminder.
Hobart commercial appliance display · also shown as Error 080
What to do when 080 shows on the commercial applianceKind of codeMode, not a failure
Nothing on the unit has broken; the controller is reporting a state it chose or one somebody set. A defrost pauses cooling for a scheduled melt and shows a warmer air reading for a while, a combi asks for a delime or runs its clean cycle and locks the door until it ends, a dish machine or a laundry machine sits in energy save between busy periods, and a door-open reminder beeps after a long delivery. No part is needed: letting the cycle finish, or the key sequence in the manual, brings the unit back.
Usually leads toNo repair
Press ENTER and start a delime cycle as described in the manual.
Shows up asCommercial Appliance Error Code on a Combi, Fryer, Dish Machine or Laundry Display
A commercial appliance error code appears as letters or numbers on a combi, fryer, reach-in controller, dish machine or laundry machine display, or as a flashing light or an alarm tone.
MakeHobart
A Hobart dish machine that stops holding its rinse heat is usually seen right after the lunch racks clear, so the tank can drain and cool.
SourceHobart LXn / LXGn series instructions manual F41243 (10-23), error code chart
Hobart LXn and LXGn undercounter machines (LXnC, LXnH, LXnR, LXGnPR, LXGnR) with the touchscreen control, per instructions manual F41243. AM16, CL and FT2000 machines use their own displays and are not covered by this chart.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Hobart's own guidance for 080 on its commercial appliances. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Press ENTER and start a delime cycle as described in the manual.
Use a deliming agent your chemical supplier approves for the machine.
On LXnR and LXGnR models, check the delime container, since those machines pump the agent in themselves.
Book a visit if the reminder comes back unusually fast, because the water hardness setting may be wrong.
Cleared?
The code is gone from the controller, the box pulls down to its set point and holds it, the vat or the cavity reaches temperature and recovers on schedule, the rinse hits its heat and the drum finishes its spin, all without a new part. If the same code comes back within a week, or during the next busy shift, mention it when you book.
What not to do
080 is not a failure; it is a maintenance lockout the kitchen can clear. Scale left in place, however, is what leads to slow heating codes such as 003 and 070.
What you may
notice with it.
The commercial appliance problems 080 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the commercial appliance before anyone is booked.
All problems
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
Nothing on the unit has broken; the controller is reporting a state it chose or one somebody set. A defrost pauses cooling for a scheduled melt and shows a warmer air reading for a while, a combi asks for a delime or runs its clean cycle and locks the door until it ends, a dish machine or a laundry machine sits in energy save between busy periods, and a door-open reminder beeps after a long delivery. No part is needed: letting the cycle finish, or the key sequence in the manual, brings the unit back.
Hobart
commercial appliances.
A Hobart dish machine that stops holding its rinse heat is usually seen right after the lunch racks clear, so the tank can drain and cool.
Hobart commercial appliance repairMore Hobart codes
All 15 Hobart codesMode, not a failure on other makes
In Hobart's own words
Delime required. Run delime cycle.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Hobart LXn and LXGn undercounter machines (LXnC, LXnH, LXnR, LXGnPR, LXGnR) with the touchscreen control, per instructions manual F41243. AM16, CL and FT2000 machines use their own displays and are not covered by this chart.
Hobart 080 commercial appliance 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.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
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New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing 080?
A booking with a code goes further when it has the code as shown, the model and serial from the data plate, and a word on whether the unit still holds temperature, heats, rinses or spins. With those three, the office can match the likely part to your unit the same day.