Kenmore refrigerator
showing OP
OP in a temperature display of a 253.7031 French door means that compartment's sensor circuit is open, as if a wire were cut.
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- Sensor circuit
- Controls and sensors
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What OP
actually means.
OP in a temperature display of a 253.7031 French door means that compartment's sensor circuit is open, as if a wire were cut. Sears checks the connections to the electronic control board, then measures the sensor off its harness; infinite resistance means the sensor is replaced.
Kenmore refrigerator display · also shown as OP in freezer temperature display, OP in refrigerator temperature display
What to do when OP 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 253.7031 French door error codes (Wayback copy, Nov 2019)
Kenmore French door models whose number starts 253.7031 (built by Frigidaire); OP can appear in the freezer or the refrigerator temperature display.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for OP on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check that the model number begins 253; OP is read from the Sears chart for 253.7031 French door models.
Note which display shows OP, freezer or refrigerator.
Book a visit; if the sensor measures correctly, the wiring or the control board is looked at next.
What not to do
OP is not short for a power outage. It marks an open sensor circuit.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems OP tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Refrigerator Freezing Food
5 causes, cheapest first
Where OP usually leads
Controls and sensors.
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before the visit.
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In Kenmore's own words
OP in freezer temperature display Freezer temperature sensor open
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Kenmore French door models whose number starts 253.7031 (built by Frigidaire); OP can appear in the freezer or the refrigerator temperature display.
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Questions
about OP.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing OP?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.