Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

[bornlivelife]

Would be so grateful if someone can help with this.

Dishwasher has been great up til now – think its about 4 years old

But now, on any program the unit fills ok washes a bit and then stops. Manual advance gets it going another 3 minutes then it stops again. It does theis 5 times in a program and I have to miss lots of parts of the cycle out so the plates arent clean. There is no heating either. It does drain fine so appears pump and outlet are fine.

Followed advice on this forum but havent found the problem, ie:

Cleaned blue tubes, cleaned “u” tube, cleaned filters, cleaned spray arms (it was all pretty clean anyway), checked heater element circuit and its fine, checked connections on timer etc they seem ok.

Do you think it could be thermostat?

Best wishes, Peter

[Penguin45]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Thermostat, heater or broken wires in the door are likely culprits. First two you’ll need a multi meter to investigate correctly.

Power off if removing any panel, or click the link below for a UKW engineer in your area.

Regards,
Penguin45.

[bornlivelife]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Thank you – you’re very kind – will have a look then see what parts I need to buy

[bornlivelife]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Hello

Ive checked something that could be a thermostat, its round and about 50mm diameter plastic made by KEMA EUR and has numbers ( 05/99 761143 , 0611 60/27 on it) It has a breather tube coming out of it and 3 connections red (2 wires) black (1 wire) grey (1 wire). Circuit seems a bit weird, it does the following:

RED-BLACK : NO CIRCUIT
RED-GREY : NO CIRCUIT
GREY-BLACK : CIRCUIT

Does that mean its working or broken, and is this the thermostat please?

[Dave_Conway]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

That’s the pressure switch 😉

May I suggest an engineer at this stage ?

Check the repairs@ link below for a local Independent 🙂

Dave

[bornlivelife]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Hmm this is quite tricky ! I already contacted someone through that link so hopefully someone will get to me on Monday – thermostat must be in the electric panel then near the on/off switch…

[bornlivelife]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Found some more things:

1. Door open/ close circuit : works fine

2. At bottom of a water chamber – White thing dia 20 with 2 wires – CIRCUIT OK

3. Next to heater a black thing with lots of wires: orange (2 wires) in, orange (1 wire) out; purple (1 wire) in, purple (1 wire) out

All circuits give a reading which sounds odd

ORANGE a/ ORANGE b : CIRCUIT OK
ORANGE a /PURPLE b : CIRCUIT OK
ORANGE a/ pURPLE a : CIRCUIT OK
PURPLE a/ PURPLE b : CIRUIT OK

Is this the thermostat, and should it be reading that?

[bornlivelife]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Right item 3 is the thermostat Im sure about it! But from circuit check I think its working

So I think I need a new timer because everything I check seems to be ok. What do you think?

[Penguin45]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Do not replace the timer, you may well be wasting £75. There are too many variables here – have you got a reading through the heater for instance? One of the symptoms of the blue tube problem is no heat – the water is shut off by the safety system at the inlet valve, rather than the pressure switch. If the pressure system does not actuate, there is no heat.

Regards,
Penguin45.

[bornlivelife]

Re: Electrolux ESI 600 Blue Tubes – Sticky timer, no heat

Yes the heater has a reading – circuit is ok – you think its the safety system at the inlet valve then?

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