Kenmore refrigerator
showing iD Lo or iD Hi
iD Lo or iD Hi reports the ice room temperature sensor, which watches the compartment where the Trio makes and stores its ice.
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- Sensor circuit
- Controls and sensors
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What iD Lo or iD Hi
actually means.
iD Lo or iD Hi reports the ice room temperature sensor, which watches the compartment where the Trio makes and stores its ice. Sears checks its wiring to the control board, then measures the sensor for a resistance between 1,000 and 40,000 ohms.
Kenmore refrigerator display · also shown as iD Lo, iD Hi
What to do when iD Lo or iD 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 asIce Maker Not Making Ice
When the freezer is cold, the question is whether water is arriving — not whether the appliance can 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; iD Lo and iD Hi appear in the control's diagnostic mode.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for iD Lo or iD Hi on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Confirm the 111 prefix and bottom-freezer layout before going by this chart.
Check whether the stored ice has softened or fused into clumps, which tells the technician how the ice room has been holding up.
Book a visit and pass on both the code and the state of the ice.
What not to do
iD is not the ice maker's own sensor. That one reports as i5 on the same chart.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems iD Lo or iD Hi tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
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Where iD Lo or iD Hi usually leads
Controls and sensors.
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In Kenmore's own words
iD Lo or iD Hi Ice room 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; iD Lo and iD Hi appear in the control's diagnostic mode.
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Questions
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Still showing iD Lo or iD 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.