--- title: "Dishwashers" description: "Twenty in the current catalog, most of them between 38 and 46 dBA, and almost all of them quiet enough that the first sign of trouble is a light rather" url: "https://samsungmiami.support/appliances/dishwasher/" date_modified: "2026-09-04" Appliance type: "Dishwashers" --- # Samsung dishwashers ### Two ways to say the same thing A Samsung dishwasher with a digital display shows a code: 1E or IE, 3C, 3E, 4C, 5C, 7E, LC, OC, and the rest of the seventeen the maker publishes. The same machine without a display blinks its cycle lights, and Samsung publishes forty combinations with a meaning for each. Both are on this site, and the blinking-light pages are filed as signals rather than codes because that is what they are — documented by the manufacturer, in the manufacturer’s own words, which is exactly the line between a signal we can publish and a guess we cannot. ### Three wash systems, three different failure shapes StormWash uses a dedicated high-pressure zone; Linear Wash moves a bar along the tub; WaterWall sweeps a reflector across it and has a code of its own, 7E, for a reflector that cannot move. Knowing which one you have changes the diagnosis before we arrive, and it is usually printed on the front of the machine. ### Do not clear the code first Samsung asks this explicitly and it is the rare piece of manufacturer advice that is aimed at the technician rather than the owner: resetting before troubleshooting does not fix the cause, and it takes away the one piece of evidence the machine had to offer. StormWash · Linear Wash · WaterWall · third rack · AutoRelease · Bespoke fronts Dishwasher repair Seventeen published codes, and forty blinking-light combinations StormWash, Linear Wash and WaterWall arms behave differently when they fail Draining, filling, leak sensing and the AutoRelease door Two ways to say the same thing A Samsung dishwasher with a digital display shows a code: 1E or IE, 3C, 3E, 4C, 5C, 7E, LC, OC, and the rest of the seventeen the maker publishes. The same machine without a display blinks its cycle lights, and Samsung publishes forty combinations with a meaning for each. Both are on this site, and the blinking-light pages are filed as signals rather than codes because that is what they are — documented by the manufacturer, in the manufacturer’s own words, which is exactly the line between a signal we can publish and a guess we cannot. Three wash systems, three different failure shapes StormWash uses a dedicated high-pressure zone; Linear Wash moves a bar along the tub; WaterWall sweeps a reflector across it and has a code of its own, 7E, for a reflector that cannot move. Knowing which one you have changes the diagnosis before we arrive, and it is usually printed on the front of the machine. Do not clear the code first Samsung asks this explicitly and it is the rare piece of manufacturer advice that is aimed at the technician rather than the owner: resetting before troubleshooting does not fix the cause, and it takes away the one piece of evidence the machine had to offer. ### The cycle lights are blinking and there is no code. What does that mean? It is a code — Samsung's models without a digital display report errors by blinking the cycle lights instead, and the maker publishes what each combination means. Forty of them. Heavy and Express 60 together is one thing, Smart Auto and Heavy is another, and all four lights at once is a third. Write down exactly which lights are blinking before you turn it off; that is the whole diagnosis on these models, and it disappears the moment you clear it. ### It shows LC or LE and there is no water on the floor. That is the leak sensor, and Samsung's own wording is that moisture is detected where it does not belong. It does not promise you a puddle: the sensor sits in the base, so a slow weep from a hose or a seal reaches it long before it reaches your kitchen. It is a real signal and worth acting on early, because the cheap version of this repair is a hose and the expensive version is what happens after the water has been there a while. ### It will not drain, or there is standing water in the bottom. Samsung's drain code is 5C, SC, 5E or SE depending on the panel, and the sequence that solves most of them is the filter, then the drain hose and its high loop, then the air gap or disposer connection, then the pump. Three of those four are things we can check in the first ten minutes of a visit, and a surprising number of them are the disposer knockout plug that was never removed when the machine was installed. ### Dishes are not getting clean but nothing is flashing. Samsung's own guide makes a point worth repeating: when something is genuinely wrong with the machine, it usually shows up as filling, draining or an error as well. Cleaning alone, with everything else normal, is far more often loading, detergent, water temperature or a blocked spray arm — and on WaterWall and Linear Wash models, a reflector or bar that is obstructed. We will tell you on the phone if that is what it sounds like. --- **[Read full article: Dishwashers](https://samsungmiami.support/appliances/dishwasher/)**