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I had engineer come out to look at my LG Dryer, on closer inspection it was deemed that the start motor capacitor had gone. Anyways the engineer ordered a replacement and came back and fitted the new capacitor, it worked for all of 20mins and same thing happened again drum stoped, but this time when i tried to start it again there was no buzzing noise, I then called the engineer back.
When he came back and inspected my LG Dryer he told me that the motor had gone. Anyways over the weekend it came to my attention that he fitted the wrong start motor capacitor, the one he took out was 10uf, and one he fitted was 20uf.
I’m not 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} sure what difference from that would of made but I’m wondering is that at all possible that might of coursed my motor to fail?
Re: LG TDC70040E wrong capacitor start fitted?
Yea I guessed as much the motor wouldn’t like it, but would it be enough to make the motor fail that quickly though? And if so what can I do about it??
Re: LG TDC70040E wrong capacitor start fitted?
Fitted lots of caps to these , (only fault we get on them really) is appliance under warranty yet ? most of these come with 2yr guarantee from the manufacturer.
Fitting a cap so much over spec wld cause motor to overheat pretty quickly , did you leave machine for good couple of hours to cool down? It may have self resetting thermal cut out. if not new motor and correct cap reqd.
The one upside is that it isn’t too big a job to replace the motor, not sure about price but in today’s market this is a pretty good tumble dryer and probably worth fixing .
Would have to say that i’d be looking for some redress from whoever did botched repair !
Re: LG TDC70040E wrong capacitor start fitted?
Thanks for the reply.
The dryer only 2 and half year old, so was out of warranty, I got a company listed here to fix the capacitor, for which did the job.I set the dryer to do a cycle, worked for about 20-30mins then dryer started beeping at me, so i turned the dryer off and restarted the dryer but this time there was no buzzing noise coming from the motor as it was last time.
Took few days for engineer to come back, he tested the motor told me it was dead and needed a replacement, well that was over week ago, he never got back to me.
did a search for motor on intnernet, only price i seen is £120 which is a lot of money for motor. been nearly a month now since we had a working dryer.
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