Drain fault on Hoover VT 816 D22X/1-80

[mace]

iadom wrote:With regard to the third connection on the pressure switch, it is used to trigger the overfill circuit. I did suspect this but couldn’t access the tech info yesterday. It doesn’t register a click when you blow into the switch though.

Yeah, was quite informative taking the old pressure switch apart. Turns out it was fine, but since I’d already bought a replacement I figured it wouldn’t hurt to have a nose. Unfortunately dismantling is really a one way process, these things are *well* clipped together. 🙂

[mace]

Got a replacement element and fault is cleared, so looks like it was the heater element leaking to earth after all. Thanks 🙂

[iadom]

Very slight earth leakage can cause all sorts of weird faults, the dryer element on Zanussi made washer dryers is another well known cause of several spurious error codes when it goes down to earth.
Thanks for coming back to confirm the diagnosis. 🙂

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