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Having come back from vacation with a ton of washing – I think the first load went off without a hitch – but we weren’t watching it.
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Settings are program 4 (Easy Care – longer wash) with a temperature dial set to 40 degrees C.
–We started as second load and then noticed something that sounded odd – like a kettle boiling noise.
Then all 5 horizontal lights (i.e 4 diag + power) started rapidly flashing together with the 1st (Wash?) and 4th vertical lights (Dry?)
These then stopped after 5-10 seconds – but the noise persisted and they came back on – we used the front power button to turn the unit off – then we moved the unit out and unplugged it.
We opened the door and – it certainly seemed hot (using a cheap infra-red thermometer) it showed mid 50’s C inside the machine – this was after about 10-15 minutes of unplugging / pulling the machine out so we could get a better look at it.
Assuming the horizontal LEDs indicate F15(?) : Heater control fault (washing machines and washer dryers)
Any idea what to look at first, temperature sensors? elements? or the overall control/pcb?
Re: Indesit WIDL102 – Rapid Flashing (5+2 lights) too hot?
eqdrbb wrote:
Any idea what to look at first, John Lewis, Appliances Online, Currys 😉
The error codes on these are given by slowly flashing a combination of the top four horizontal lights excluding the door lock light so what you have is not an error code. The temperature control for the wash and drying cycles are entirely different components.
As it is not a recognised error code then diagnosis is difficult but the electronics on these are as flaky as they get so the main pcb is a strong contender and is not really a cost effective repair unless you send it off for testing and repair to the likes of EMW or QER.
Re: Indesit WIDL102 – Rapid Flashing (5+2 lights) too hot?
🙂 – I’d already started down the full replacement research path!
Ah, I was wondering if F13-15 were dryer component only error codes (based on the wording of the thing I looked it wasn’t clear if they were dryer related components only).
Looking at things a bit closer, I put a meter on the plug, shows consumption statistics – seems that the heating element is likely on ‘full’ the whole time – seems to be drawing around 1730W constantly during the ‘wash’ cycle.
Looking at the electrical tape that is around the sub-set of wires that just go to the temperature sensor and heating element – these seem to have been rather hot at some stage and have largely liquefied the ‘sticky’ bit of the tape :fire:
My guess is either a sensor fault (that doesn’t class as a sensor fault – i.e misreporting temperature vs not working) so that the element is on constantly – but would have thought there should be a fallback for that going awry based on ‘excessive’ time / energy used by the element.
Either way, doesn’t sound cost effective as you suggest!
Thanks iadom.
Re: Indesit WIDL102 – Rapid Flashing (5+2 lights) too hot?
A fault on either the wash or dryer side thermistor should give a specific error code, horizontal lights 3+4 are a wash ntc fault, lights 1+2+4 is a dryer ntc fault. All four lights flashing steadily is a main pcb/heater relay fault which would give you constant heat.
Re: Indesit WIDL102 – Thermistor Resistance
Hi guys,
Does anybody no the correct Room Temperature resistance or other tolerances for the Thermistor part in this machine:
https://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/c00053573-indesit-ariston-washing-machine-temperature-sensor
Mine is currently 50-60Kohms at room temp, which I believe is far too high and probably caused the element to blow. It does go down when warmed in hand.
Thanks!
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