Kenmore refrigerator
showing F1 Lo or F1 Hi
F1 Lo or F1 Hi, found in the diagnostic mode of a Kenmore 111 bottom-freezer Trio, reports a failed freezer compartment temperature sensor.
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What F1 Lo or F1 Hi
actually means.
F1 Lo or F1 Hi, found in the diagnostic mode of a Kenmore 111 bottom-freezer Trio, reports a failed freezer compartment temperature sensor. Sears has the sensor's wiring at the control board checked for damage first, then the sensor measured and replaced if its resistance falls outside 1,000 to 40,000 ohms.
Kenmore refrigerator display · also shown as F1 Lo, F1 Hi
What to do when F1 Lo or F1 Hi 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 bottom-freezer error codes (Wayback copy, Nov 2019)
Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number starts 111; F1 Lo and F1 Hi are read in the control's diagnostic mode.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for F1 Lo or F1 Hi on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Make sure the model number starts 111 and the freezer is at the bottom; the Trio diagnostic codes belong to that layout.
To read every stored code, hold Lock for three seconds, then hold Freezer and Refrigerator while pressing Acela Ice five times, and step through with the Freezer button.
Write down each code shown before pressing Lock to leave the mode.
Book a visit with that list in hand.
What not to do
F1 on this Kenmore has nothing to do with the F1 codes other brands use. Read it only against the 111 Trio chart.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems F1 Lo or F1 Hi tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
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Where F1 Lo or F1 Hi usually leads
Controls and sensors.
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In Kenmore's own words
F1 Lo or F1 Hi Freezer compartment temperature sensor failure
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number starts 111; F1 Lo and F1 Hi are read in the control's diagnostic mode.
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Still showing F1 Lo or F1 Hi?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.