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Hi, hope you can advise me about a washer fault. We have a Hoover Dynamic Next 7kg, bought 2015, light use, good condition. Although it will go through a 9 minute drain / spin cycle the motor does not move *at all*. At end of cycle it gives error E08. Belt is OK, drum is free to move, motor brushes are new. I’ve done resistance checks on motor coils and tacho and they look good. Since it appears the motor is good but no power is getting to it, should I buy a replacement control module?
check board for damage and bad solder joints
check wiring to motor from the board by doing resistance checks from the board connector
Dave
Update: No retailers had the exact part in stock. I searched on Ebay for the control module number and found someone selling a used one from a good machine quite close to me. I bought it, fitted it and we now have a working machine!
As far as I can tell a fairly common fault on Hoover and Candy ( basically the same machines ) of the present / recent era. The other E08 motor related fault goes something as follows: initially machine will not fill with enough water, long died a death pauses. What really happens if you leave long enough on is: the machine fills half the amount on a wash programme then does nothing but if left the drum does go round. Trouble is notice it only ever goes around anti or clockwise and so not both and there is a long pause between what drum action you do get until the error code crops up. If you test only on the spin cycle it gives you the impression all is well where that is not the case which is where my initial testing went all wrong ! This caught me out until I cottoned on to what was really happening. The cure was a new pcboard something of a weak spot on these machines at the best of times for other faults ( though “other faults” does not mean it will always be the pcb that up the creek ), there were no bad soldering joints so I think one of the board relays was duff. The machine was a Candy version model GVS149D3-80 ( 31008281). PCB part number 49042859 – I remember having trouble also in tracking down the correct pcb and that is because the part number had changed apparently. Still all works now, part was fitted in early December last year, no-doubt I would have heard lots of yelling and tears by now if it did not do the trick..
andyjawa wrote:I remember having trouble also in tracking down the correct pcb and that is because the part number had changed apparently.
That’s what I found too. The PCBs have a microcontroller which is programmed for each specific machine, so you could buy an identical PCB and find it doesn’t work because the program is wrong, and of course there is no way to reprogram it. This works well for the manufacturers – they want you to throw the machine away and get a new one, not fix it. It’s not so good for the environment, or our pockets.
Yes very true the pcb`s have to be model and sometimes even model version specific so from my point of view the whole trade seems to have gone to pot ( though that is nothing new! ). Things have taken a dive with these two brands since they are now made in China ( PRC ) so perhaps a lot of info has been lost in translation ( best of luck to all involved sorting that one ). Still, they are not the only ones with suspect electronics of which Indesit was also/probably still is plaqued with premature duff electronic components. If it is any consolation one of the very last fairly newish 3 year Miele I went to, just before I retired, for a blocked up pump I thought I would have a nose around and have a visual look at the pcb just for interest, conclusion was it looked very similar to a Hoover /. Candy pcb in orther words the electronic components did not strike me with the highlights of top quality put it that way but I could of course be wrong on that one but I fear that I am probably spot on. Should think, as a rough guess, that pcb is probably over 250 quid a shot and if it is I would not be at all surprised.
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