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With energy consumption rising rapidly, I borrowed an instant read power use meter and started checking the household appliances.
The Hotpoint Aquarius DWF33 dishwasher was drawing 4.5kw. I dont know for how long or at what point in the cycle. However, this seems excessive. Will a damaged heating element cause this?
The machine works well otherwise and is very quiet.Thank you for your ideas…
Dave
Re: Hotpoint DWF33 drawing 4.5kw at mid cycle
Doesn’t sound right, thats 18 amps and it has a 13 amp fuse, shouldn’t the fuse have blown then.
Element in any dishwasher is normally no more that 2KW.Re: Hotpoint DWF33 drawing 4.5kw at mid cycle
It doesnt trip the fuse, or blow fuses in the plug.
The meter is attached to the mains supply, with a remote digital read out.It was reading 5.554 kw which is huge. The highest it was before was 3.1 kw with a 30+ year old oil filled radiator on. (That is going to be banished to the recycling centre.)
When I turned the dishwasher off the reading was 0.9.. something!
So, if it was 0.999, say 1 kw, then the dishwasher was drawing 4.554 kw.I did this three times and each time it went from 0.9.. to 5.554 and back again.
I think 13 amp fuses blow instantly at about 20 amps and at about 15 continuous… but that is just an ill informed memory i have somewhere.
The dishwasher was drawing at least 4.5kw. For how long and why, I dont know.
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