DSC85W – no heat, much weirdness???

[hellraiseruk]

Hi,

Just come back from a week away and as is always the way, something has broken – namely my Beko DSC85W. When I try to dry any clothes, I get no heat. Have popped the back off and checked the trip switch (which hadn’t tripped), checked the NTC thermostat next to it which had a resistance of 4.5k (is this within tolerance?), but no dice. I decided to find out if the heating element was being powered up at all, and so plugged the drier in through one of those “energy consumption readout” plug things – this shows me that when I first start the program, it draws about 2.6KW of power, which is about right for the element being on. I can then hear the relay click on and off a couple of times, then when it switches to the reverse spin cycle, the heater goes off never to come on again (with the drier consuming just 150W or so).

I thought it might just be a dodgy element, but further reading says it could be the main PCB as well – anyone had this problem, and been able to fix it? Any help would be appreciated…

Cheers

JD

[Seamy]

Re: DSC85W – no heat, much weirdness???

Is the NTC low to earth? If it is it won’t heat, new heater or heater & p.c.b required i’d imagine.

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