Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher :(

[Dave_Conway]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

roly16 wrote:But what’s more important is ; how do you get an emoticon in your message without it writing javascriptemoticon(‘:?’)laughing as well?/ javascript:emoticon(‘:?’)

😥 😀 🙁 😮 😆 😕 😯 😡 😛 😳 😥 🙄 😈 👿 ❗ ❓ 💡 ➡

Works OK here, what browser are you using ?

Dave.

[Penguin45]

Are you seeing the “emoticon” box, Roly? If so, all you’ve got to do is click the one you want.

Chris.

[Martin]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

You see what happens ❓

I leave this thread unattended for a few hours whilst I catch up on my much needed beauty sleep and vandals come in here, spreading graffiti all over the place 😯

:lesson: Warten Sie nur bis ich einholen mit ihnen naechsten Monat :martin:

Martin

[roly16]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

Am using mozilla firefox at present as i’ve got a trojan in IE.
😥 Ah that’s it.Just click on it. Now why didn’t I think of that;I was clicking and dragging. 😳 I hate computers; life was much easier before them. 😀

[roly16]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

Have you got a result on this job yet Martin?

[Martin]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

roly16 wrote:Have you got a result on this job yet Martin?

Nope, I quoted the worst case scenario to my customer though! I guess by now she has had it replaced 🙁

The lesson learned for me here is that this vintage of machine made by Bosch/Siemens involved huge great PCB’s/Power Boards and fancy stepper timers. These have now evolved into smaller, cheaper, easier to diagnose as faulty and replace Timer/Module Units.

Using the latest direct equivalent as an example, the WFR2860. That has a small, compact Module Control Unit that is sofisticated in the extreme and very reliable to boot (albeit the programmes take forever to complete – try just setting one to DRAIN ONLY to see what I mean it takes 11mins 45 seconds 🙁 )

Oh! and it doesn’t have the light that comes on in the drum at the end of the cycle…I guess they gave up on that idea 😐

qué será será :rotfl:

Martin

[roly16]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

Ah well, you can’t win them all as the saying goes. At least you’ve learnt something in the process.

[Martin]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

Martin wrote:Nope, I quoted the worst case scenario to my customer though! I guess by now she has had it replaced 🙁

Well, well, well….the lady did not replace the machine after all, she didn’t need to in fact…I fixed it!!! 8)

I was never happy with not knowing what the fault was, it was bugging me anyway, so for the first time in all my 30 plus years, I picked it up and brought it home for a closer look in my own time 🙂

Of the seven wires that plug into the motor, 5 go to the Power Module and the other 2 go to the Stepper Timer. Having removed the Timer, I spotted a dry joint, tickled it with a hot soldering iron and BINGO…sorted 😀

Martin

[roly16]

Re: Bosch WFS4030GB/01 headscratcher 🙁

Well done Martin! Happy outcome for everyone. Lucky you didn’t buy a new board. It shows that it’s always worth looking for dry joints with this sort of problem but it can be time consuming. How many customers want to pay a full labour charge for the time you spend doing that if you don’t find anything at the end of the day/

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