Leisure [U] fault codewhat it means and how to fix it

A letter U on a Leisure zone display is a heat setting that somebody has selected, deliberately or otherwise. Leisure publish it in one line: you can use the level U for warm keeping. It sits between 0 and 1 on the slider, which is exactly why it gets found by accident. Slide down through the numbers looking for off and you land on U rather than on nothing, and the zone carries on gently heating while the display shows a letter that looks like a warning. Its opposite number is P, which is the booster. Both are settings and neither is a fault, and between them they account for most of the letters people photograph on these hobs. Four more published behaviours belong on the same page, because they are all versions of the hob appearing not to do what it was told.

If no operation is performed within 20 seconds, the hob returns to standby by itself, so a level chosen and then left while you fetch something from the fridge is gone by the time you come back. A set temperature value becomes active after approximately 3 seconds, so nothing appears to happen for a moment after you touch a level. A zone has to be activated before its settings are made, which is the reason a perfectly good slider produces nothing at all when you have not selected the zone first. And when the booster time is up, the power of the cooking zone is reduced and 9 is displayed continuously, which reads as the hob quietly turning itself down mid-cook. It is, and it is meant to. Then there is the operation time limit, which is Leisure’s answer to a hob that switches itself off after a long session. Every level has a published maximum running time, and the limits are generous at the bottom and short at the top. The full table as printed: level 0 runs to 720 minutes, U to 480, level 1 to 516, level 2 to 402, level 3 to 318, level 4 to 258, level 5 to 210, levels 6 and 7 to 138 each, level 8 to 108, level 9 to 90, and the booster to 10.

Two of those rows do not descend as the rest do — level 1 is allowed longer than the keep-warm level below it, and 6 and 7 share a figure — and because the manual is a scanned image we went back and read the page again at high resolution before printing them. The digits are unambiguous; the sequence is Beko’s, not a misreading, so we reproduce it rather than tidy it. Finally, if the panel does nothing at all and every zone display shows an L, Leisure name the keylock, and they publish the sequence: the lock can only be set or cleared with the hob in standby, by pressing and holding the on/off key until the L symbols appear or disappear on each zone display. While it is on, pressing the on/off key just brings the L symbols back.

1. 1

   Slide up from U into the 1 to 9 range if you want the zone to cook rather than hold something warm.

2. 2

   Slide down past U to 0 if you want it off, and check the display actually reads 0 rather than a letter.

3. 3

   Give a new setting about three seconds to take effect before deciding the hob has ignored you.

4. 4

   Select the zone first, then set its level. Settings made without a zone activated do not go anywhere.

5. 5

   If nothing on the panel responds and every zone shows L, clear the keylock: with the hob in standby, press and hold the on/off key until the L symbols disappear.

6. 6

   If P has been replaced by a steady 9, the booster has simply expired after its published 10 minutes.

7. 7

   If the hob has switched itself off after many hours on a low setting, look at the operation time limit before assuming a fault.