Ariston LSV66 – Overflowing!

[acrookston]

Hi,

This has been broken for a while now and I’m getting fed up with tea towls.

When I put it on the rinse cycle, fine. Starts, fills, rinses, empties then stops. However, putting it on the wash cycle is a different matter. It kicks off by filling up but wont stop! Eventually water pours out over the kitchen floor.

Valves and motors must be fine so could it be the programmer thingy. Its a manual turnaround one. Had the door off hoping to see soemthing broke or burnt but it looked fine. Mass of wires and I wouldnt know how to take the think out anyway.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Allan

[richardable]

Re: Ariston LSV66 – Overflowing!

alan, overfilling can be caused by the pressure switch not being activated. POWER OFF. take lid off, look for round item with some wires attatched and a rubber tube at the bottom which disappears towards the bottom of the tub. this is the air tube along which air is displaced when water enters the tub, when enough water is in the tub enough air is pushed up the tube and activates the pressure switch, water stops comiing in! so check the route of the air tube, find where it is attatched to the tub an see if you can see where there is a restriction. if you can’t see anything obvious, take air tube off pressure switch and blow down it.. the blow should be easy and possibly you will hear the noise of water being disturbed in the tub. if you don’t hear anything try and locate where the blockage is,…ok so far?
richard

[Penguin45]

Re: Ariston LSV66 – Overflowing!

Level switch will be found in the base of this appliance.

Penguin45.

[gegsy]

Re: Ariston LSV66 – Overflowing!

Ah, Mr P straight to the point 😀 no indepth haynesology 8)

Greg

[Penguin45]

Re: Ariston LSV66 – Overflowing!

I suspect OP#2 had his washing machine head on……..

:p45:

[acrookston]

Re: Ariston LSV66 – Overflowing!

Thanks guys. You’re way ahead of me. And I thought I was dead clever cause I’ve just replaced a part in my electric shower!

Anyway, is the pressure switch mentioned by richardable the same thing as Penguin45 talks of, the level switch? If so, how would I get into the base, would I need to pull the whole thing out or can this be got at in situ?

I didn’t realise the door was airtight. Could it be that it’s not therefore no pressure building up inside? Also, during the rinse it fills up OK and stops, or is this not controlled by the same gizmo.

I’ll whip the kickboards off when I get back. Hopefully, this is the base and I’ll find a tube. Back to tea towels for now.

[Penguin45]

Re: Ariston LSV66 – Overflowing!

It’ll have to come out – the only reasonable access is from underneath. You’re looking for a round switch with a skinny tube runnng from it.

Stay safe, power of at all times.

Pengun45.

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