Samsung Dishwasher How-To Guides — Complete Maintenance Guide

Fourteen guides, and two are distinctly Samsung. One diagnoses the machine through SmartThings, using the app as a readout instead of a code chart. The other is the turbidity sensor, which measures how dirty the water is and adjusts the cycle accordingly. Beside them sit the 1E error, a machine that will not drain, and the parts behind both: drain pump, drain solenoid valve, circulation pump. Door latch, door seals, rack adjuster, thermistor test, start capacitor and the rinse-aid dispenser complete the list.

1E is a filter-and-flow complaint, so the guide starts where the water is slowed rather than at the pump: filter and sump, then the hose run, then the pump. That is the same order the will-not-drain guide follows, which is why the two are read together. The thermistor guide is a test rather than a replacement, and the turbidity sensor matters when cycles run long or finish dirty without any code being set at all.

A dishwasher has no gas line and no refrigerant circuit, so the limits are narrow and worth respecting: the junction box, which stays live with the door open, and the motor start capacitor, which holds a charge once the power is off. App-based diagnosis does not change either of those. EasyBear services Samsung dishwashers across Sacramento and the Bay Area when a check names the part but the access is the problem.