Hotpoint Aquarius 1100 WM63

[electrofix]

not back in till friday.
did junk a lot of these motors but may have one around i can take the fuse out of

Dave

[Trence]

electrofix wrote: not back in till friday.
did junk a lot of these motors but may have one around i can take the fuse out of

Dave

That’d be great. I’m still browsing different sites for a suitable replacement, although from above reading it may not fix the problem, still worth a try.

[Trence]

To wrap this up: I have no idea of the stall current for the Sensata Klixon thermal switch, this was brought to my attention after contacting a supplier but they only sell in bulk. Can only find a supplier of the exact part in the US so far. A new motor would be the FHP plus a kit for it to be compatible, not a sensible solution in financial terms £160 approx. Ebay or similar one may pop up, there’s loads of motors on there but I no not of their compatibility.

Thank you to all who’ve contributed.

[Trence]

Tried again to source the thermal switch and couldn’t. I tried another controller board I found in an abandoned washer that’s at least one version up from wm63n, had speed and temperature controls, board look identical besides 2 resistors plugged onto the pcb were missing. Think I read has a limiting effect on the spin cycle? Fired the washer up and same as before.
Thought I would test everything again and found a break in the wiring at the 7 pin motor plug, connection 5. The thermal switch still seemed dead so I tested a different part of the wiring that wasn’t as sooted up and it tested ok.

I’ve shortened the wiring a bit and connected pin 5 and the washer is working again.

[andyjawa]

An iffy wire. Well spotted. Congrats. It lives again.

[andyjawa]

Yep. Hot water fill (dual fill) washing machines these days are thin on the ground. I know of only one and that is made by EBAC but never actually worked on one so no idea what or how well they perform – think it is mixed review and the one from Which Mag was none to great mainly because they refused to test it on the strong wash apparently….so much therefore for “Witch”.
And yes some machines have done away with the 90 degree programme with a max temperature of 60 which, as you are pointing out, is not hot enough for white cottons so not sure what Chefs are supposed to do or lab technicians all seems rather bizzare to me too but the appliance trade gets caught with somethings in its head for no real logical reasons what-so-ever. Further, the 50 degree wash has disappeared with the exeption of Indesit that I know of. This seems to be very short sighted too as it was a fav programme I used to use on my old Hotpoint WM56. Both points I think just base why on the better performance of the detergent but much more likely to do with dictats from ridiculous state directives for reduced energy usage more like.
Long cycles, oh yes to counter the low pathetic water levels and in most cases the promotion of 30 and 20 degree washing the cycle times have increased, think some of the Bekos have 4 hour wash cycle times but they are no doubt not alone so God knows what washer dryer owners think: could be 4 hours to wash 1 load plus 2 hours trying to dry = 6 hours for one load!! = run the risk of running out of time and picking up a pine box at that rate!. I do suspect some of these manufactures are a spineless bunch where dictats are concerned but perhaps that means they are cheaper to make because of that. I never had much to do with the selling side and when I did that was now decades ago. My newish machine is a TCL model FF0814WCOUK and the cottons wash is up to and including 95 degrees and takes 2hrs 19mins, never used it myself but that is what the digital display says. I think the longest wash prog is the ECO 40-60 at 3hours 38mins compared to the other programmes but it t`aint a dual fill machine and no 50 degree prog. Mixed wash prog up to 40degree a couple of mins over an hour
My TCL machine did have a squeaky oil seal (but then that did not surprise me) so I dismantled the thing whilst under warranty – rather I do it rather than a sulking tech blagg himself out of doing it with an 11 jobs a day sentence – to lube the oil seal = peace and quiet at last and avoiding bearing failure. If I had not done so the bearings would have failed timed to perfection out of its 2 year warranty. My point is you find as I did before I retired, that a rather large number of machines have zero grease on the hub ring / oil seal and that means premature wear = nuked drum bearings having a dismantlable tank gives everyone a fighting chance to repair though of course it`s not the same with a sealed tank – they go too and then you`re well stuffed!

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