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title: "LC on a Dacor Dishwasher: the Machine Stopped Itself for a Reason"
description: "Dacor dishwasher lc code: LC on a Dacor dishwasher means a leak was detected and the machine stopped. Close the supply valve, do not clear it and re-run."
url: "https://dacormiami.support/blog/a-dishwasher-that-stopped-itself/"
date_modified: "2026-09-12"
Category: "Troubleshooting"
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# LC on a Dacor Dishwasher: the Machine Stopped Itself for a Reason

Some problems are the appliance failing. This one is the appliance working.

## Dacor dishwasher lc code: what the system is doing

There is a tray under the machine and a float in it. When water collects where it should not, the float rises, the control sees it, and the dishwasher stops mid-cycle and reports.

On a freestanding dishwasher that saves a mop. Under a panel-ready door in a fitted kitchen it saves the cabinet base, the substrate, the flooring and — in a building — sometimes somebody else's ceiling.

## Why resetting is the wrong instinct

It is a completely natural one. The machine is inconvenient, the code looks like an error, and clearing it is one button.

But a cycle is twenty liters or more, and if it is leaking, all of it goes into the same place the first lot went. The difference between a small repair and a floor is frequently a single extra cycle run to "see if it does it again".

## The five sources, and how they are told apart

The door gasket, the detergent dispenser, a hose fitting, the sump seal, or a machine overfilling. Which one it is shows in where the water appears and when in the cycle — fill, wash or drain — and a leak confined to one phase names its own source before anything is dismantled.

On a panel-ready door the gasket is likelier than on a freestanding machine, because the door carries the weight of a cabinet front and the hinges settle under it.

## The two code generations

LC on the current machines. F-6 on the EDW and IDW dishwashers from before 2016, where it is described as the controller or floor-guard problem.

Same behavior, two entirely different code families, because this make changed hands in September 2016 — and if you search LC against an older machine you will find nothing at all.

## What we check first when we arrive

Whether there is still water present, and where. Then the float and its switch, because a stuck float produces this code with a perfectly dry machine and that is the cheapest possible outcome. Only when the leak sources have been excluded does the sensing become the answer.

## What we check, in order

Whether water is still present, and where. Then the float and its switch, because a stuck float reports a leak on a completely dry machine and that is the best possible outcome. Then the five ordinary sources, in the order their evidence appears: the door gasket, the dispenser, the hose fittings, the sump seal, and the fill behavior itself.

The base tray comes out and gets dried either way. A tray left wet re-triggers the same code days later and sends everybody back to the beginning, which is a wasted visit on a problem that was already fixed.

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