AEG Lavatherm T37400 – On/Off switch question

[Irvin]

I’ve had this dryer for a few years now and it’s great. The only snag I have is that it doesn’t have a timer so if I want to run it on Economy 7 I have to turn it on manually at midnight. Now, I know my way around a soldering iron and I was wondering if any engineers out there could tell me if it would be possible to remove the control panel, cut the live wire to the On/Off switch and put a time switch into the circuit? I’ve already built and tested a circuit that will do the job.

Cheers

Irvin

[smartin]

Re: AEG Lavatherm T37400 – On/Off switch question

why not buy a timer switch and plug it into this http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p … searchtext>TIMER.htm
but personalyi wouldnt run it while im in bed.

[Irvin]

Re: AEG Lavatherm T37400 – On/Off switch question

Thanks for the reply. It’s a bit more involved that that, I’m afriad!

I wasn’t 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} accurate in my description of the situation. The On/Off switch does not start off the drying cycle. This is done by a Start button which will only activate once power is supplied to the machine. Therefore, if I use a a standard timeswitch, it will power the dryer on but I then need to physically push the Start button for it to work!

What I want to do is leave the dryer on at the On/Off switch and put a timer on the START button (sorry that got this wrong originally…). If I can remove the control panel and simply splice my timer circuit in series with the switch that would be great. However, if the Start button is mounted directly onto a PCB I’m stuffed! Does anyone know??

Also, so I can use the right rating of relay, does anyone know the wattage of the dryer? My test circuit is 300W but I doubt that this is high enough.

Thanks again

Irvin

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