Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

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  • April 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm #62395
    allan73
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    The tennent at this job whose english is a little poor, has complained of this m/c not moving on from wash but also flashing lights on facia.I’ve found the water heating element to be open circuit which explains the not finishing but I did not think this would cause a fault code on this model or am I wrong ?
    Also the rear counter weight has broken & fallen off, which was not reported but again I can’t see any bearing on the fault code.can anyone offer any advise on this?

    Allan.

    April 23, 2011 at 8:04 pm #349922
    Allsorts
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    IIRC the thermister has a timeout fault code and I would imaging that the heater not working would activate this… Also, check for damaged wires near the counterweight.. possibly earthing against the casing.

    April 24, 2011 at 7:33 am #349923
    allan73
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    Thanks for the reply Allsorts, I didn’t realise there was a time out fault code for heating on this model 😳
    Do you know if the hotpoint wf series have a fault code for this also ? I thought they just washed indefintely.

    Allan.

    April 24, 2011 at 8:15 am #349924
    Allsorts
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    The only thing I can say here is that some time ago I had the exact same model with a broken thermistor wire and it coused the machine to throw out an error code .. it was traced to one of the two little blue wires going to the thermistor.

    I would also check that your thermister is working.

    George

    April 24, 2011 at 9:24 am #349925
    iadom
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    NTC fault will throw up an error code, OC heater will stick on wash cycle without error code.

    Jim.

    April 24, 2011 at 6:53 pm #349926
    allan73
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    Thanks for the replys, I’ll check the weight hasn’t damaged any wires when it’s dropped off.

    Allan.

    April 25, 2011 at 1:59 pm #349927
    gandh1
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    iadom wrote:OC heater will stick on wash cycle without error code

    OR TRIP!!!

    April 25, 2011 at 2:03 pm #349928
    iadom
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    I would guess a short circuited heater might, no reason why an open circuit one would trip though. 😕

    April 25, 2011 at 2:24 pm #349929
    gandh1
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    not all the time of course but ive had a couple of h/ps which were o/c and tripping too, guessing the breakage damages the insulation as well?

    April 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm #349930
    iadom
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    Also guessing that such a heater would register as down to earth as well. 😀

    April 25, 2011 at 2:42 pm #349931
    gandh1
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    Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

    of course 🙂 although on those occasions it never tripped straight away, it was always a few mins into the cycle, i guess, when the element recieved power?, anyways i think the sun has got me – going back outside now for another fiddle as no-one on here atm seems to know how to fix karchers 8)

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