Kenmore refrigerator
showing r1 Lo or r1 Hi
r1 Lo or r1 Hi in the Trio's diagnostic list means the fresh food compartment sensor has failed.
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- Sensor circuit
- Controls and sensors
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What r1 Lo or r1 Hi
actually means.
r1 Lo or r1 Hi in the Trio's diagnostic list means the fresh food compartment sensor has failed. Sears checks its wiring back to the control board and then measures the sensor, which should read between 8,000 and 40,000 ohms. A failed reading leaves the control unable to regulate the fresh food side.
Kenmore refrigerator display · also shown as r1 Lo, r1 Hi
What to do when r1 Lo or r1 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; r1 Lo and r1 Hi show in the diagnostic list Sears describes.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for r1 Lo or r1 Hi on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Confirm on the model label that the number opens with 111 and that the freezer drawer is at the bottom.
Keep a thermometer in the fresh food section; perishables need to stay at 40°F or below.
Book a visit and mention r1, since the fresh food sensor and its harness are the first things to test.
What not to do
r1 does not point to the freezer. The r at the front marks the fresh food compartment on this chart.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems r1 Lo or r1 Hi tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Refrigerator Freezing Food
5 causes, cheapest first
Where r1 Lo or r1 Hi usually leads
Controls and sensors.
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r1 Lo or r1 Hi Refrigerator 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; r1 Lo and r1 Hi show in the diagnostic list Sears describes.
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Still showing r1 Lo or r1 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.