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title: "Dishwasher error code F-9"
description: "Dacor dishwasher error code F-9: This sensor is the machine's eyes: it decides whether water arrived, how dirty it is and how warm."
url: "https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-edw-f-9/"
date_modified: "2026-09-12"
Appliance type: "dishwasher"
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# Dishwasher error code F-9

### What F-9 means on this make

This sensor is the machine’s eyes: it decides whether water arrived, how dirty it is and how warm. When it fails, several other symptoms follow that look like different problems — a fill that never satisfies, a cycle that runs long, a drain that reports water still present. That is worth knowing because a machine reporting this code alongside other complaints usually has one problem and not three.

### Where this appears, and which table it belongs to

On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all.

### Which machines this one applies to

EDW and IDW dishwashers. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door.

### What to do about it

- List every symptom, not just the code — this sensor causes several that look unrelated.
- The sensor is cleaned before it is replaced; a film across it reads as a problem.
- Its connections are checked in the same visit as the door harness.
- One part usually explains the whole picture here, and that keeps the repair to one.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher wash performance service](/services/dishwasher-wash-performance-service/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

EDW and IDW dishwashers

What this one means

What F-9 means on this make

This sensor is the machine’s eyes: it decides whether water arrived, how dirty it is and how warm. When it fails, several other symptoms follow that look like different problems — a fill that never satisfies, a cycle that runs long, a drain that reports water still present. That is worth knowing because a machine reporting this code alongside other complaints usually has one problem and not three.

Where this appears, and which table it belongs to

On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all.

Which machines this one applies to

EDW and IDW dishwashers. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door.

What to do about it

List every symptom, not just the code — this sensor causes several that look unrelated.

The sensor is cleaned before it is replaced; a film across it reads as a problem.

Its connections are checked in the same visit as the door harness.

One part usually explains the whole picture here, and that keeps the repair to one.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is dishwasher wash performance service, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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