Kenmore refrigerator
showing rt Lo or rt Hi
rt Lo or rt Hi on the Trio's diagnostic list points to the ambient temperature sensor, the one that reads the air around the refrigerator.
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What rt Lo or rt Hi
actually means.
rt Lo or rt Hi on the Trio's diagnostic list points to the ambient temperature sensor, the one that reads the air around the refrigerator. Sears has its wiring checked at the control board and the sensor measured for 1,000 to 40,000 ohms.
Kenmore refrigerator display · also shown as rt Lo, rt Hi
What to do when rt Lo or rt 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; rt Lo and rt Hi are diagnostic mode codes on the Sears page.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for rt Lo or rt Hi on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Look for a model number starting 111 on a bottom-freezer before trusting this meaning of rt.
Keep stepping through the diagnostic list after rt to see whether any other sensor codes are stored with it.
Book a visit; an ambient sensor is a small part, but it has to be proven bad before it is changed.
What not to do
An rt code is no reason to move the refrigerator. The fix is at the sensor, not in the room around it.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems rt Lo or rt Hi tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Refrigerator Freezing Food
5 causes, cheapest first
Where rt Lo or rt Hi usually leads
Controls and sensors.
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In Kenmore's own words
rt Lo or rt Hi Ambient 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; rt Lo and rt Hi are diagnostic mode codes on the Sears page.
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Questions
about rt Lo or rt Hi.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing rt Lo or rt 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.