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My washer won’t fill cold water at the beginning of the cycle, but it does fill on “rinse”, everything else are normal. this washer is in a rental flat, wonder if this could be caused by setting from the touch buttons, if so how to reset it?
Re: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
Tricky one. The cold valve is a “proportional” flow valve. If it works on rinse there is obviously a circuit through it, but it remains the prime suspect. It’s (apparently) a cheap part, so that’s the place to start. It is possible that the computer board is not able to control the valve, but this is unusual.
HTH,
Penguin45.Re: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
thank you, I’ve measured the valve voltages, it did have volt(12v) on cold valve when just start the “cold” machine, then voltage decreased gradually to 0v in a few seconds. if i powered off the machine and start again, voltage is always 0v now. but when i Advance to rinse, voltage is normal and machine works as usual.
so i would say the valve is ok but control signal from the board is abnormal. just wonder if this fault could be reset? it might be somewhere in the service manual that mentions how to set water temperature things? anyone who has manual please help.
cheersRe: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
You can only adjust the warm temp on an MW washer, with the GW’s you can adjust every water temp.
Enter diagnostics, and post the fault code. Also in this mode press and hold the wash temp down button. This will turn the cold valve on by itself, and it should stay on until you release the button.Let us know how you go 😉
Re: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
Thank you Kiwi, i entered diag mode, nothing wrong. by pressing temp down, cold valve works like normal one. but under normal operation mode, cold valve voltage deceased to 0v after a while. i found hot valve was alwalys powered with 8v when i just used “cold” wash option, this caused hot valve very hot. Rinse works as usual( cold valve 12v and hot valve 0v when doing cold wash).
would you please teach me how to modify the temp setting? i’ve swap display panel with another smart drive 501 machine, nothing changed.cheers
Re: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
😯 Set your peepers on this, chief:
1. Select the OPTION ADJUSTMENT MODE by pressing and holding the START/PAUSE button, then pressing the POWER button.
2. Use WASH TEMPERATURE buttons and LEDs to select the temperature
setting to be adjusted, i.e. Cold, Cold/Warm, Warm, Warm/Hot, Hot.
3. Use the ADVANCE button and WASH PROGRESS LEDs to increase or
decrease the temperature. Each time the ADVANCE button is pressed, the
WASH PROGRESS LEDs will advance one position to the right. This
increases the temperature by approximately 1oC. When the spin LED is on and the ADVANCE button is pressed, the spin LED will go off and the left hand (long wash) LED will turn on. This is the coldest setting. The setting can then be advanced through again to achieve the required temperature.
4. Select the next temperature range to be changed with the WASH
TEMPERATURE button. Repeat Step 3. Each Temperature range can be
adjusted using this method.
5. To return the machine to Normal operation, press the POWER button.This adjustment is only avaliable for GW model smartdrives 😉
Only the warm can be altered on MW models 🙁If your WM has ever had a new disply then it may have been replaced with a GW display. I do this as they are the same price, and it saves carrying around heaps of different boards.
Re: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
thanks heaps KIWI, i took the module to the 501 machine and followed your instructions to reset temp, it works! but i am not done yet, the machine seems not to remember the setting after turning the wall power off then on again. How to get it remembered the new setting? PLEASE RESCUE!
Re: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
If the Motor Controller has been changed from one size machine, to another then the size switch settings in the memory will have to be reset. Entering and exiting the Option Adjustment mode can do this in phase 2 and 3 washers. Push and hold START/PAUSE then push POWER button to enter Option Adjustment Mode. This sets the size into EEPROM.
If the Display module has just been inserted into a console housing check that the two size switch plungers accurately locate onto the console housing. If this fault has appeared during normal operation of Smartdrive check the size switch or replace the Display module.
It is possible that it won’t store due to a fault in the display board. Pull it apart and check for corrosion. 😉Re: F&P Smart Drive 051 won’t fill cold water
I have a similar problem with a F&P GW611.
I have plugged my aussie machine in, in France – cold water taps only. I select cold wash and a few minutes afetr starting it stops filling, beeps and the hot and cold LED’s flash. It also sounds like its draining as it fills. The clothes only seem wet, not sitting in water. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have followed the above recommendation for resetting the temp of the temperature buttons.
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