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I have a hotpoint WMA 10, it looks like the interlock has gone as the door locked light keeps flashing.
When i bypass the interlock the machine works but when i put a working interlock on the machine the door locked light flashes as if the interlock is broke.
When i got the machine the plug going into the interlock was the wrong way round but i don’t know if this has blown anything.
Re: Baffled by Hotpoint WMA10
James,
Sadly the Door Interlock is a known weak point on these machines and it and the main circuit board could well have failed as a result. Looks like a costly excercise to rectify in all honesty 🙁
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It should not be possible to put the plug in the wrong way round unless you use a great deal of force or remove the locating lugs from the plug.
Would be interested to know why you thought it was the wrong way round and how you decided which wires you would short out to bypass it?Re: Baffled by Hotpoint WMA10
Not sure which way round the connections are configured but it is thoretically possible that the door lock could still function (i.e. still lock) but the machine would not be supplied and therefore register that the door was locked. However it is also theoretically possible to short the live and neutral when the lock engages which would cause an ‘event’ 😉
Its often possible to figure which goes where though…there will be a direct live from the on/off switch, a direct neutral for the lock supply (usually from the on/off switch), the third wire will feed the pcb et al, and the hotpoint locks are handily marked with the cicuit diagram on the moulding.
Incidentally the neutral wire is nearly always a smaller diameter than the other two (the only load current it takes is from the door lock ptc)
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clivejameson wrote:
Its often possible to figure which goes where though…there will be a direct live from the on/off switch, a direct neutral for the lock supply (usually from the on/off switch), the third wire will feed the pcb et al, and the hotpoint locks are handily marked with the cicuit diagram on the moulding.
On WMA models all three connections come from the module, there is no diagram on the side of this much smaller interlock, as there is on a 1602390, not even the usual helpful. L/C/N terminal identification.Re: Baffled by Hotpoint WMA10
James0072005 wrote:
When i got the machine the plug going into the interlock was the wrong way round but i don’t know if this has blown anything.
‘If’ the plug was in the ‘wrong way round’ all that would happen is that you would get a live feed to the open switch side of the door lock,which would not therefore activate. No damage to the PCB would occur, always assuming that someone has not been playing around with the wiring in the first place. 😥
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Does anyone know where I can get a wiring diagram from for this machine? After a couple of minutes the Door lock light goes out and the end Program light flashes? we have had to replace the bearing Kit (very resonable price) but not too sure if put the red brown & black wires the right way round? PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP
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Davey Boy wrote:but not too sure if put the red brown & black wires the right way round?
I don’t have a WMA10 wiring diagram sorry, but you may have scuppered the Module if you wired it wrong? 🙁
Where are the wires meant to go?…Door Lock perhaps?
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The wires to the door lock on WMA machines go into a single plug, unless you force it, it will only fit one way. I would guess that your fault is elswhere. Or have you removed the wires from the plug.??
You do know that Hotpoint would have fitted you a complete drum assembly to cure the bearing fault for labour only if your machine is under 5 years old. Any other faults would also be covered but any 5 years parts g/tee is now invalid.
Just a thought, your machine is a WMA and not a WM ?
The wires to the doorlock on a WMA10 should be 2 white and one red.
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had a wma machine with a weird fault that turned out to be two wired incorrectly replaced by a previous engineer
there are two seperate wires in a connector next to the on off switch one of which has a plastic cover on the term the one with the cover goes on the right when veiwed from the front
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There doesn’t appear to ba a conclusive reply on this one – I have exactly the same problem as James
“I have a hotpoint WMA 10, it looks like the interlock has gone as the door locked light keeps flashing. When i bypass the interlock the machine works but when i put a working interlock on the machine the door locked light flashes as if the interlock is broke. “
Can I do anything about this? The fact that it works if I take off the lock and short out the wires indicates its not beyond hope – in fact I got a full wash cycle out of it like this but then couldn’t get the door to close ever again.
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Dishy Washer wrote:There doesn’t appear to ba a conclusive reply on this one –
Looking at some of the posts in this thread, with wires & plugs fitted incorrectly, posters asking about colours of wires that shouldn’t even be on the door switch etc, the ‘conclusive’ reply is to get someone out who knows what they are doing. 😉
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But they want £90 to start with for a new control panel – which doesn’t seem all that necessary since I can get it to wash but just not keep the door shut? (and they can’t even guarante that will work…….
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dishy washer wrote:But they want £90 to start with for a new control panel – which doesn’t seem all that necessary since I can get it to wash but just not keep the door shut? (and they can’t even guarante that will work…….
I would guess it all depends on who ‘they’ are. If I fitted a part that did not cure the fault then there is no way I would charge the customer for it. Keeping the door shut and locked is vital, particularly if you have young children.
A faulty module is a very likely cause of this fault. Some independants are able to have these tested, have you had a look here
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