--- title: "Samsung refrigerator error code 88 88" description: "Samsung refrigerator error code 88 88: A group about electricity rather than refrigeration, and Samsung distinguishes them usefully: 83E is abnormal current…" url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-voltage-or-power/" date_modified: "2026-09-04" Appliance type: "Refrigerators" --- # Samsung refrigerator error code 88 88 ### What 88 88 means on this make A group about electricity rather than refrigeration, and Samsung distinguishes them usefully: 83E is abnormal current to the compressor, 85E is the compressor seeing too little voltage, 86E too much, and 88 88 is a communication problem that can happen when power is disrupted while the cabinet is starting up. All four point outward, at the supply, before they point inward. A single one after a storm means very little; the same one every week means the supply is worth measuring. ### The other ways Samsung prints this one 88 88 · 83E · 85E · 86E 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 - Unplug the refrigerator or switch it off at the breaker for sixty seconds, then restore it. - Note whether it followed a storm, an outage or a flicker in the lights. - If it repeats without any of those, have the outlet and the circuit measured. - A compressor current code that keeps returning on good supply is a compressor matter, and that is a measurement rather than a guess. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [appliance control board repair](/services/appliance-control-board-repair/), 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. Voltage or power error What this one means What 88 88 means on this make A group about electricity rather than refrigeration, and Samsung distinguishes them usefully: 83E is abnormal current to the compressor, 85E is the compressor seeing too little voltage, 86E too much, and 88 88 is a communication problem that can happen when power is disrupted while the cabinet is starting up. All four point outward, at the supply, before they point inward. A single one after a storm means very little; the same one every week means the supply is worth measuring. The other ways Samsung prints this one 88 88 · 83E · 85E · 86E 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 Unplug the refrigerator or switch it off at the breaker for sixty seconds, then restore it. Note whether it followed a storm, an outage or a flicker in the lights. If it repeats without any of those, have the outlet and the circuit measured. A compressor current code that keeps returning on good supply is a compressor matter, and that is a measurement rather than a guess. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is appliance control board repair, 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. --- **[Read full article: Samsung refrigerator error code 88 88](https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-voltage-or-power/)**