Candy Dishwasher tripping the RCCB Switch

[chris_p]

Hello everyone, I do hope you can help me resolve this problem.

Firstly it is a Candy CDI 1012/B Dishwasher.

It was on this morning as per usual and at some point it tripped the breaker. It can be plugged in at the mains with no issues but as soon as I switch on the power at the door controls it trips the switch.

Can anyone give me some help on where to start looking? I have checked the door seal and that seems ok so probably not the pcb. What else should I be checking?

Many thanks for your help.

Chris

[kaibart]

Re: Candy Dishwasher tripping the RCCB Switch

There are 3 main components which normally cause this problem 1 a mains filter where the lead enters the machine, 2 the heating element, 3 the wash pump motor.
But I would check if the dishwasher has a leak 1st

[chris_p]

Re: Candy Dishwasher tripping the RCCB Switch

Thanks for the reply.

I’m going to have a look at it today and will let you know how I get on.

[chris_p]

Re: Candy Dishwasher tripping the RCCB Switch

Well, spent quite a while on the internet this morning trying to find a service manual for the candy dishwasher, I did find one but it was rather bad so gave up on that.

Pulled the dishwasher out and there was signs of water from underneath so tipped it backwards 45 degrees and water a plenty came out. I presume the anti flood float switch operated correctly and the water in the bottom was obviously causing the short and tripping the switch. I removed the side panels and the back bottom panel etc and mopped up all the water from underneath, the dishwasher was disconnected at this point :death: I then had a good look underneath and it looked to me like the heater flow through pipe had come completely away so I guess this was the problem. Anyway, reconnected it and got a hairdryer on the bottom area to dry things out.

After some time drying the components out I was able to turn on the machine and select a program without the mains tripping so that was nice 🙂

Loaded the bad boy up and selected an eco wash cycle with the sides still away from the washer as I wanted to check for any leaks … seems fine so far about half way through the cycle … hopefully it will get through without any incident.

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