- Reveal-branded door design
- Counter-depth footprint
- Silver Stainless finish
The Dacor DRF36C500SR is a current 36-inch counter-depth French door refrigerator with Reveal door. Dacor lists the DRF36C500SR as a 36-inch counter-depth French door refrigerator with Reveal door, Silver Stainless, Reveal door. The DRF36C500SR belongs to Dacor's Contemporary style, described in Dacor's own marketing copy as clean design with an emphasis on symmetry and precision, inspired by architectural elements found in modern skylines. In practical terms, the DRF36C500SR is built around Reveal-branded door design; Counter-depth footprint; Silver Stainless finish. One part of the DRF36C500SR's model number is reliably decodable: the digits straight after the prefix letters (36) give the nominal size in inches, which is consistent across Dacor's current SKUs — Dacor has never published a full legend for the rest of the string, so nothing past that and the LAP/RAP hinge letters should be treated as confirmed. The DRF36C500SR's exact plate location has not been confirmed from a primary Dacor document, so a door edge, a door frame, or an interior wall are the three places worth checking, with a photograph taken once the plate is found rather than assumed in advance. A unit built the way the DRF36C500SR is tends to show frost or warm-running symptoms from the defrost circuit well before the compressor itself becomes the suspect. On refrigeration like the DRF36C500SR, an ice maker that stops filling or a water dispenser that runs weak is at least as common a call as anything on the sealed refrigerant side. The DRF36C500SR's evaporator fan and defrost thermostat see more service calls than its compressor does, which is typical for panel-ready column refrigeration of this generation. On the DRF36C500SR, we test the evaporator fan and the defrost heater/thermostat directly before considering the compressor, since that combination accounts for most warm-running complaints on this platform. There is no error-code table for the DRF36C500SR anywhere in Dacor's own documentation for this appliance type; that absence was verified by reading the manual, not assumed from silence. What the DRF36C500SR does show, inside the SmartThings app rather than on the unit itself, is a set of named alarms: Self Check, Abnormally High Temperature, Door Open, and a Filter Replacement reminder — plain-language alerts, never a code string. A cluster of repair-blog sites reports numeric-plus-letter error codes for Dacor refrigerators such as the DRF36C500SR; the primary manuals for this platform describe only the four named SmartThings alarms and never a code string, so those numeric claims are treated as unconfirmed here. Dacor has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics America since the September 2016 acquisition closed, and the DRF36C500SR's control platform reflects that ownership. The DRF36C500SR is a product of a brand with real history: Pasadena, California, 1965, three generations of family ownership, and then a September 2016 acquisition that made Dacor a wholly owned Samsung Electronics America subsidiary while it kept its own name and dealer network. Owners searching for help with the DRF36C500SR online will find plenty of code tables and decode charts; this page only repeats what a primary Dacor or Samsung document actually supports for this platform, and says so plainly wherever it does not.
The DRF36C500SR raises four named alarms and nothing else: Self Check, Abnormally High Temperature, Door Open, and Filter Replacement. Everything beyond that is symptom work. Look up the DRF36C500SR against its siblings in the model directory, read the guides for the problem you are chasing, and see www.dacor.com for the specification as built.
