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Hi folks, 1st time poster.
I’ve got the above washing machine (Kelvinator 508)
The prob is, when you first start it up, (we usually start from short wash), it fills it up so far and the cold + hot water leds flash. Then it beeps
It beeps (after it rinses, the cycle before it spins). This has only happened in the last say 2 weeks, or so. It only beeps while its filling up with water.
It rinses and spins fine. No prob at all.
I’ve read a few sites on the internet, that the hot water valve may need replacing. Umm, I see these washing machines, have a diagnostic mode, and you get the errors in binary somehow.
Where would I find a list of what these flashing leds actually mean. So, I can figure out WHAT the prob maybe.
Any info appreciated
Thanx
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In Oz now………
Have a read of the “Diagnostics” sticky at the top of the forum and see what you get.
Penguin45.
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Cool ta Penguin and Phidom!
Well going by the diagnostics on the sticky, reading from the right, the 4th (slow wash), and the 6th (2 cycles after long wash led lights up)
When I hold wash temp down, press power, wait for the 2 beeps, then press spin until hold and spin light up.
That sound right?
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Hmm surprise surprise. Washing as I type this. It seems to have fixed itself somehow. So far so good. Its near the 2nd to last wash (before the final spin). And has managed not to stop/beep.
The only thing I did yesterday afternoon, was clean the “scrud” from inside the agitator??
Will have to wait till I put the next lot of clothes in to see if it goes right through without stopping
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Curious…. Your code was an odd one, suggesting a communications error between the boards. Bit of moistuire getting somewhere it shouldn’t, perhaps.
Good luck with it,
Penguin45.Re: Kelvinator GW508K Washing machine
Hmm spoke to soon, its fine on the first wash (short wash), goes as far as the 2nd to last wash. Then beeps while its filling up on the 2nd to last wash / cycle.
Doing the diagnotics now, its the same as the previous 4th (slow wash), and 6th. But at least its 1/2 fixed (it goes from short wash to the 2nd to last cycle), without beeping.
I’ll check out this moisture prob. I’ll put the 2nd lot of clothes in see if it goes as far as the 2nd to last cycle as well
Well it stopped.
Umm odd, if you touch the top of the cold water valve (where the cold water is connected to from the tap at the back of the washing machine). after you take the control panel off), should it be hotter than the hot water inlet valve?? Because it is
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Does the cold water appear to fill OK or has it slowed?
Its quite common for the fill valve to restrict the water flow. The cold valve on your machine is proportional.Re: Kelvinator GW508K Washing machine
Speaking of the cold tap, I’ve noticed that the tap itself doesnt turn off completely (the hot water does)
Turn the cold tap off completely, water still comes out of it. (as if its still turned on 1/4 of the way), its not just a dribble, its like when you put your finger over the end of a hose. More of a spray.
The washer is probably stuffed or something. Could this be the prob, because the washer need replacing??
Since the cold and hot lights come on, (when it beeps), it sounds like there maybe a lack of water?? Since according to the manual, when these lights light up, its one of the following
The taps have not been turned on. (theyre definitely on, right on)
Inlet hose screens may be blocked. (checked not blocked)
The hoses may be kinked. (Refer to page 5), theyre not kinked in any way. The hoses etc have been as is for the last 10 years ! And the machine has been fine, since up to 2 weeks ago, when it started to beep.
The drain hose is too low or the drain hose is pushed into the standpipe too far and the water is siphoning out of the machine. (See Installations Instructions page 4). Not that I can see
The flow rate of the supply water is too slow. (This maybe a possibilty due to cold water prob above).
I’ve got the washing on now. It still stops and beeps on the first wash (short wash), but once you press start/pause (after it beeps), it continues to fill, then rinses.
Its on its 2nd to last cycle now. During the 2nd to last cycle it starts filling with water, then beeps again. But pressing start/pause again doesnt fix this cycle, it continues beeping and wont go to the last cycle (spin), unless you press advance to make it spin
The cold sounds like its filling OK to me (But maybe not at full speed due to the above)?
With the hot and cold (on the machine end, I know the hot needs the valve thing in it, to stop the water coming out, but both are still meant to have washers (at the machine and the tap ends right)?
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Ok well I’ve just put another lot of clothes in.
It hasnt beeped, since it started from short wash to the 2nd last cycle!
I removed the control panel cleaned around in and inside
Removed the lid, to clean the gunk out from the sides
I’ve timed it and:
It takes about
10 minutes from short wash till it agitates
5 mins from agitate till it rinses
4 mins from rinse fill / spin – to the next cycle
Its been filling up for the last 20 mins (2nd to last cycle, it has just beeped). Pressed start / 6 mins filling beeps again. So I advance it, now it spinning
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Are you saying it takes ten minutes to fill for the wash, If so I think this is too long.
You say it beeps….. is this a beep… beep…beep or a “chime” tiddly dee.There is a huge difference.
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Beep pause beep pause beep.. not continously. Not like when it makes a tune, when you turn it on.
Yup I timed it this arvo, it took from 1.36 to 1.46 to get from short wash (fill/rinse/spin), to the next cycle (rinse).
Do you think the cold tap maybe causing it? Since the washer needs replacing?
The same lights light up (hot and cold) when it beeps. Only diff in the last wash, was it only beeped (on the 2nd to last wash), not during the short wash. Altho, this may or may be the same next time !
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It’s not syphoning is it, Paul? If the end of the drain hose is shoved too far down the pipe, the water runs in and runs straight out again…..
Penguin45.
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Umm well its draining into a tub the end of the drain pipe is just sitting over the edge of the tub…you mean the end of the drain hose thats in the back of the machine??
What pipe?
It seems to be intermittent, the last few days its managed to go right through till the 2nd to last cycle, starts filling for up to 20 mins, then beeps.
As of now, its gone back to beeping during the first / short wash. then it beeps, press start again once it continues to the rinse cycle.
I see at the back of the machine where the dran hose is connected, (its in the bottom), there’s also an opening above it, whats the above one for??
Its meant to be in the bottom one isnt it?? Well its been there since I brought it.
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