Kenmore Trio diagnostic code i5 Lo or i5 Hi
In the diagnostic mode of a Kenmore 111 Trio, i5 Lo or i5 Hi reports a failed ice maker temperature sensor.
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What i5 Lo or i5 Hi
actually means.
In the diagnostic mode of a Kenmore 111 Trio, i5 Lo or i5 Hi reports a failed ice maker temperature sensor. Sears checks the wiring between the ice maker and the control board first, and because the sensor is part of the ice maker, a bad one means a new ice maker.
Kenmore ice maker display · also shown as i5 Lo, i5 Hi
What to do when i5 Lo or i5 Hi shows on the ice makerKind of codeTemperature sensors
The control lost track of how cold the ice mold or the ice compartment is, because a thermistor reads nonsense or its wire lost contact. Without that reading the ice maker cannot tell when a batch is frozen, so it stops or harvests at the wrong time. Frost packed around the sensor and a loose plug are checked before the sensor itself is changed.
Usually leads toIce maker control and sensor repair
The control board, the thermistors, the bin sensor and the wiring that decide when an ice maker fills, freezes and stops, tested and repaired when a light flashes, a code shows, a breaker trips or the ice never stops coming.
Shows up asNo Ice Coming From the Ice Maker
The mold sits empty or holds one frozen batch that never drops, the bin stays bare for days, and the dispenser gives water as usual: an ice maker not making ice while the rest of the appliance carries on normally.
MakeKenmore
Kenmore ice maker repair, with the series identified from the printed model number before a part is chosen.
SourceSears PartsDirect: Kenmore 111 bottom-freezer error codes (Wayback copy, Nov 2019)
Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number begins 111; the code is read in the control's diagnostic mode.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for i5 Lo or i5 Hi on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Note whether the display reads i5 Lo or i5 Hi.
Exit diagnostic mode by pressing Lock.
Book a visit so the wiring and the sensor can be measured.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice maker control and sensor repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
i5 is not the ice room sensor, which is iD. It is also not a sign that the whole freezer is warm.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems i5 Lo or i5 Hi tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
No Ice Coming From the Ice Maker
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Where i5 Lo or i5 Hi usually leads
Ice maker control and sensor repair.
Kenmore
ice makers.
Kenmore ice maker repair, with the series identified from the printed model number before a part is chosen.
Kenmore ice maker repair
Door ice maker
The ice maker that feeds the dispenser on the outside of a door: tucked into an insulated box in the left door of a French door model, or at the top of the freezer side of a side-by-side, with a chute and an auger carrying cubes to your glass.
Freezer ice maker
The ice maker that sits inside the freezer compartment itself, a tray that twists or a mold with a heater and an ejector, dropping cubes into a bin or drawer you open by hand, with no dispenser on the door.
In Kenmore's own words
Ice maker 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 begins 111; the code is read in the control's diagnostic mode.
Kenmore i5 Lo or i5 Hi ice maker repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
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Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing i5 Lo or i5 Hi?
Book with the code or the blink pattern written exactly as the ice maker shows it, the full model number, and whether there is any water on the floor — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.