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[Fixerupper]

Hi we live in a remote village in the mountains of Eastern Crete we are off the beaten track… We grow olives and grapes and vegetables keep a few hens and have two scruffy dogs …I like fixing and making stuff and I hate throwing stuff away that I can keep working …I joined up here to get some help with our washing machine …a Samsung washing machine a WF60F4E0N0W has developed a fault over the last year .. It started by just stopping during a wash now and again …restarting it worked fine and it would finish the wash ..then it got to stopping every time on every wash …and then the only thing to do was to switch it of and unplug it and do a re set with the pause button …that worked for a bit and I started to leave the machine unplugged ,and only plug it in when I wanted to run a wash and it worked fine with no pausing for many washes …Now it has developed in to a thing where it will never do a full wash and I have to nurse it through every wash by continually re-setting it .sometimes it throws up a 3E code and sometimes it just cuts out ..with no code at all …. I checked the wiring and the motor this morning the brushes are clean and have plenty of life in them I contacted the ukwhitegoodspares site to ask about Hall sensors and Kenneth Watt says this machine does not use one ..so …Hive mind where do I go from here any help would be great thanks …Jeff

[electrofix]

ken is correct its only the direct drive units that have that sensor. Your unit has a tachometer at the rear of the motor and they seldom fail

if your brushes and the wires to the motor are ok then it sounds a bit like a board problem

as a long shot have you tried a different socket as they can go faulty and tend to go off during heating cycles

Dave

[Fixerupper]

electrofix wrote:ken is correct its only the direct drive units that have that sensor. Your unit has a tachometer at the rear of the motor and they seldom fail

if your brushes and the wires to the motor are ok then it sounds a bit like a board problem

as a long shot have you tried a different socket as they can go faulty and tend to go off during heating cycles

Dave

Oh thanks for that Dave .. PCB problem was my other thought but I look at a board and I don’t really know what I am looking at or for … so it might be replace it and junk the old one Ken says they are not available and expensive ….When you say different socket do you mean plug the beast in somewhere else ? worth a try I guess ….

[electrofix]

yes the wall socket

they can go faulty and it is worth a try so its free to try

Dave

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