Hotpoint 7810W tripping circuit breaker

[robbie_lam]

Hi,

My Hotpoint 7810W is several years old and has developed a recent fault. I usually use it on program 3 (‘economy’); it gets through the washing and rinsing cycles fine, but then at some point after the control knob has clicked round to ‘dry’ it trips the 100 mA circuit breaker on my main electricity inlet board. When I then turn off the dishwaher and open it the dishes are already dry, so presumably this is happening towards the end of the drying cycle? The first time this happened my washing machine and oven were also on, and I thought I might just be drawing too much current. But I have since tried the dishwasher with no other appliances turned on and it still trips. Also the first time this happened I noticed a spoon had fallen through the cutlery tray – could this have damaged the heating element somehow? There’s no obvious damage from looking at it.

Any help you can give would be great!

Cheers,

Rob

[Turbo]

Re: Hotpoint 7810W tripping circuit breaker

Sounds like a broken wire or a leak onto the electrics to me. Doubt if it is the element as it goes through the heat cycle without tripping.

Turbo

[Penguin45]

Re: Hotpoint 7810W tripping circuit breaker

Power off if investigating……..

Regards,
Penguin45.

[robbie_lam]

Thanks guys, have taken the front panel off and checked for both broken wires and leaks – no joy. Any other ideas?
If all else fails I guess I could try to either somehow stop it progressing through to the drying cycle (am happy to let it drip dry), or try disconnecting the heater from the control box? If so do you know which colour wires that would be at the control box end?
Thanks again

[Turbo]

Re: Hotpoint 7810W tripping circuit breaker

Not a good idea to disconnect the heater as it will not go through the wash cycle. I really think you should get an engineer to have a look because it is not safe to use in its current state. 😥

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