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title: "Samsung dryer error code tC"
description: "Samsung dryer error code tC: The most airflow-dependent condition a dryer publishes."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/dryer-temperature/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Dryers"
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# Samsung dryer error code tC

### What tC means on this make

The most airflow-dependent condition a dryer publishes. A machine that cannot get rid of its hot air will overheat whether or not anything electrical has failed, and on a vented dryer that means the lint screen and the duct before it means a sensor. Samsung’s own first instruction for this group is to clean the lint screen and the exhaust vent, and that is also the version of this problem that starts fires — which is why it is worth doing rather than reading past.

### The other ways Samsung prints this one

tC · tS · t5 · tO · t0 · tE · tE3 · tC5 · tCS · 1 tC · 1tC5 · 1tCS

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

### Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

### What to do about it

- Clean the lint screen, and then clean it again after the next load — a screen with fabric softener film on it looks clean and passes almost no air.
- Have the exhaust duct cleared along its whole length, not just at the machine.
- Check the vent flap outside actually opens when the dryer runs.
- If airflow is proved good and the code returns, the thermistor or the thermostat is the repair.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [dryer vent cleaning](/services/dryer-vent-cleaning/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Temperature error

What this one means

What tC means on this make

The most airflow-dependent condition a dryer publishes. A machine that cannot get rid of its hot air will overheat whether or not anything electrical has failed, and on a vented dryer that means the lint screen and the duct before it means a sensor. Samsung’s own first instruction for this group is to clean the lint screen and the exhaust vent, and that is also the version of this problem that starts fires — which is why it is worth doing rather than reading past.

The other ways Samsung prints this one

tC · tS · t5 · tO · t0 · tE · tE3 · tC5 · tCS · 1 tC · 1tC5 · 1tCS

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

What to do about it

Clean the lint screen, and then clean it again after the next load — a screen with fabric softener film on it looks clean and passes almost no air.

Have the exhaust duct cleared along its whole length, not just at the machine.

Check the vent flap outside actually opens when the dryer runs.

If airflow is proved good and the code returns, the thermistor or the thermostat is the repair.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is dryer vent cleaning, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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