Caple TDi4001 Integrated Tumble Dryer Fan

[Billy 67]

Hi All

I’d like a bit of advice re: my Caple TDi4001 dryer. It’s 3 months old and up until last week it worked fine but now the fan is suddenly coming on and just staying on for the final hour of all drying cycles. The fan has always come on but only for a few seconds at a time for approximately 30 seconds over the cycle but never this long. I done several drying cycles and it is doing every time. Sometimes in a smaller dry it stop starts through the final hour but the stop is never anymore than 5 seconds before the fan kicks in again.
I contacted Caple because this was such a dramatic overnight change in fan running time but they have told me it’s normal and the TDi4001 is designed to have longer fan times compared to its predecessor so won’t send an engineer out under the warranty to check it. The problem I have is that I can’t let a local engineer look at it because it will void my 5yrs warranty so my hands are tied.
Is the fan running time normal when it’s on for over an hour in a 1hr 30mins cycle?

TIA

[electrofix]

only caple are going to know how the fan responds.
there will be 2 fans. one to circulate the air and the other to cool the compressor

Dave

[Billy 67]

Thanks Dave, it’s the front fan with the grid on the bottom right

[electrofix]

that probably the cooling fan for the compressor. its only a computer type fan in most cases so is very very low power

Dave

[Billy 67]

Cheers, much appreciated

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