The FTC and outdoor unit stop hearing each other (manual: nothing received normally for 3 minutes / no reply 30 times).
Safety: Safe isolation before opening terminal covers — mains present on the interconnect.
How to read it — ftc controller: Ecodan check codes show on the FTC / main controller display. (Ecodan service manual OCH727, §9-2 self-diagnosis action table)
UK models this code applies to
From the Mitsubishi Electric service literature we hold (Ecodan service manual OCH727 §9-2) — not a scraped list.
E8 names a symptom, not a root cause. In the app, the same code opens a guided investigation: what to measure first, the expected values for your exact model, and an honest verdict — including “nothing in this machine is broken” when that's what the readings say.