BUSH WDNSX86W fault

[bulla]

Hello! I’ve started getting a fault on a 2.5 year old Bush wdnsx86w. When the motor starts to turn from stationary or changing direction there is a momentary screech coming from the appliance which almost sounds like something hitting the glass door. Seems to be worse when trying to turn the motor at speed, ie spin cycle. The appliance then gets stuck in a loop and the timer won’t go down. Cue the door lock engaging and disengaging and kitchen lights flickering. Eventually the appliance turns itself off. My feeling is something electrical??

Can any washing machine engineers / repairers point me in the right direction please?

[electrofix]

have you tried it in a different socket ?

Dave

[andyjawa]

Sounds like to me that the motor module is playing up OR a loose wire from the tacho rear of motor generator to tell what speed the drum shoud turn hence the noise from the belt as it for a split second tries to go into spin mode from a wash speed. More likely to be the former i.e. the pcb. very little info on your model, kinda typical. Think your Bush is probably an, oops forgot to import the spares, is Chinese/ PRC made – nothing wrong with that as such but not famed for any tech back-up or spares via importers.

[electrofix]

unit is made by Midea

[bulla]

Update on this:

I took the back panel off to see what was going on with the motor. There was a build up of fluff around the commutator and the fluff had carbon deposits on it. It seems like when the motor received high current to start a spin there was a brief short along the fibres to earth. Motor cleaned up and refitted and all good.

[andyjawa]

What a stroke of luck! Never had that one happen ever.

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