Kenmore refrigerator
showing r dH
r dH is the fresh food side's version of the defrost check: the sensor on that section's coil stayed at or below 40°F through the defrost.
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What r dH
actually means.
r dH is the fresh food side's version of the defrost check: the sensor on that section's coil stayed at or below 40°F through the defrost. Frost that should have melted is still on the coil, and it cuts the air reaching the fresh food shelves as it grows. Sears names the same three suspects as for the freezer: fuse, heater and control board.
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What to do when r dH shows on the refrigeratorKind of codeDefrost
The defrost cycle did not finish in the time the board allows. A heater, its thermostat or the sensor that ends the cycle.
Usually leads toDefrost system repair
The failure behind most slow, gradual losses of cooling — and behind most visible frost.
Shows up asFresh Food Section Warm, Freezer Cold
The single most diagnostic pattern on a refrigerator, and almost never the compressor.
MakeKenmore
A retail badge on appliances built by several different manufacturers.
SourceSears PartsDirect: Kenmore 795 bottom-freezer error codes (Wayback copy, Jan 2021)
Kenmore and Kenmore Elite models whose number starts 795 (built by LG), bottom-freezer and French door; r dH sits next to F dH on the Sears chart.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for r dH on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the model number; r dH decodes this way on Kenmore refrigerators numbered 795.
Keep a thermometer on a middle shelf of the fresh food section and note the reading each morning.
Book a visit and say the code starts with r, so the fresh food defrost circuit is checked first.
What not to do
r dH does not point at the freezer's heater. The lowercase r places the failed defrost on the fresh food side.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems r dH tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where r dH usually leads
Defrost system repair.
Read these
before the visit.
Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.
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In Kenmore's own words
r dH Sensor did not get over 40 F
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Kenmore and Kenmore Elite models whose number starts 795 (built by LG), bottom-freezer and French door; r dH sits next to F dH on the Sears chart.
Kenmore r dH refrigerator repair,
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Questions
about r dH.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing r dH?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.