Kenmore refrigerator
showing LED 2 flashes
Two flickers then a pause from the main board LED of a 111 top-freezer mean the ambient temperature sensor, also called the RT-sensor, has failed.
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- Sensor circuit
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What LED 2 flashes
actually means.
Two flickers then a pause from the main board LED of a 111 top-freezer mean the ambient temperature sensor, also called the RT-sensor, has failed. It sits on top of the refrigerator and reads the room; Sears checks its wiring and looks for 5,000 to 40,000 ohms across it.
Kenmore refrigerator display · also shown as Main board LED flickers 2 times
What to do when LED 2 flashes shows on the refrigeratorKind of codeSensor circuit
A temperature sensor reading outside its range, or the wiring to it. The reading is confirmed with a meter before any part is ordered.
Usually leads toControls and sensors
A refrigerator cools to what it believes the temperature is, and a sensor reading wrong is obeyed perfectly.
Shows up asRefrigerator Freezing Food
Lettuce frozen solid and milk with ice in it, in a compartment that is not supposed to freeze.
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SourceSears PartsDirect: Kenmore 111 top-freezer error codes (Wayback copy, Nov 2019)
Kenmore top-freezer models whose number starts 111; Sears calls the part behind two flashes the RT-sensor.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for LED 2 flashes on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Read the model label for a 111 prefix on a top-freezer model.
If the board cover is already off, keep hands clear of everything inside and unplug the refrigerator before refitting it.
Book a visit and say the LED gave two flashes.
What not to do
Two flashes do not mean the fresh food side is warm. The failed sensor is the one reading the room.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems LED 2 flashes tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Refrigerator Freezing Food
5 causes, cheapest first
Where LED 2 flashes usually leads
Controls and sensors.
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before the visit.
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In Kenmore's own words
Main control board LED flickers 2 times Ambient temperature sensor failure
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Kenmore top-freezer models whose number starts 111; Sears calls the part behind two flashes the RT-sensor.
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Questions
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Still showing LED 2 flashes?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.