Error code
Whirlpool-built Kenmore dishwasher signal Cycle lights flashing
Cycle lights flashing is an indicator rather than an error. Whirlpool publishes it for the dishwasher this badge covers, and it means: Whirlpool's wording: all selected cycle and option lights flash to show the cycle is suspended.
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What we can confirm
Signal Cycle lights flashing, from the manufacturer's own documentation
This code has no number, because this equipment has no display to put one on. The appliance signals it instead — an alarm, a symbol or a pattern of lights — and what it means is recorded in the documentation that ships with it.
The signal
Cycle lights flashing
Whirlpool's wording: all selected cycle and option lights flash to show the cycle is suspended.
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What it narrows down to
Whirlpool's wording: all selected cycle and option lights flash
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What else belongs to the dishwashers
On this make a code belongs to the appliance rather than to a product line. These are the other conditions this machine can display, and the models that can show this one — a display often has more than one thing to say, and the model number decides what any of it costs to put right.
Other codes this appliance can display
Whirlpool's own label is Long Drain: the dishwasher is not draining properly
A drain motor error
The fill valve is stuck open — the machine
Whirlpool's own wording: not detecting water
A fill valve electrical error
Whirlpool's own label: excessive suds
The water float switch
The heating system
The thermistor or the water quality sensor
A wash motor error
A diverter valve error
A diverter leak
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Whirlpool-built Kenmore dishwasher signal Cycle lights flashing
Whose code this actually is
Kenmore did not write Cycle lights flashing, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Whirlpool's, and it appears on the dishwasher that Whirlpool built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Whirlpool, Frigidaire and Bosch all built dishwashers for this badge, and their numbering overlaps enough to be convincing while meaning entirely different things.
What the appliance is telling you
Whirlpool's wording: all selected cycle and option lights flash to show the cycle is suspended.
This one is an indicator rather than an error. It is published in the same table as genuine problems, and treating it as one is how a working appliance gets a service call.
Which Kenmore models can raise it
The Kenmore dishwasher whose model number begins 665 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Whirlpool's, which is why Whirlpool's table is the one that applies to Cycle lights flashing and no other manufacturer's does.
The other ways it may be written
The same condition is published under more than one label, because it has been carried across generations of the appliance and because a segment display draws some characters oddly: All cycle and option lights flashing. They are the same finding and they lead to the same place.
Worth trying yourself, in this order
- Usually the door was opened. Close it firmly and the cycle continues.
- If it suspends on its own, that is worth a call.
Where this usually goes
The job this most often becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore dishwasher on this water scales its heater and its spray arms faster than the manual assumes, so codes about temperature and wash performance are read here with the supply in mind first. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears Cycle lights flashing, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis.
Where this meaning came from
Whirlpool's own documentation: Dishwasher error codes and flashing lights — Whirlpool Product Help. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer's document instead.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards