Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

[myfil]

Now and again we all get one of these – you buy an expensive PCB or other part, go back to the job, and it still don’t work… 😥

Went to a Hotpoint BFI62 Integrated Dishwasher. The customer had pushed the program-select button (the only button on the machine, apart from the on/off swith) so hard that he had broked the whole PCB off its mountings and snapped off the indicator light lenses!. We got new PCB (C000 096972), new lenses and a new bezel. Fitted them.

But the selector button still does not function – nothing happens, even on the “four-push” trigger for the test pgm.

Can anyone give me a hand here – is there a power board perhaps down the bottom with a busted relay? Or some other possible cause? The new PCB functions OK otherwise (2 lights come on at startup, per the enclosed leaflet)

If anyone has had this fault before, and found a remedy, please tell me!

(Monday I have to go back and make it work!)

Regards
Myfil

PS: Hotpoint (i.e. Indesit) took 6 weeks to get the new PCB. So customer is already peed off. 👿

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

Thats the only PCB on the machine. The best I can do is to send you a wiring diagram if that would help.

A new module may enter the test programme when first switched on, cancel by holding the P button until you hear a long beep followed by three short ones.

Jim.

[grazzamongrel]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

i would check the door microswitch because it could think door is shut and therefore prevent the user from selecting anything..failing that pcb is faulty. i should have one or quick access to one if that helps

graham 😉 😛

[myfil]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

Thanks for the replies guys.

Jim, it does enter the test pgm (2 lights on and starts to fill, etc) but it is the P button that does not function, that is the problem. Yes please if you can email me the wiring diagram.

I will also check the door micro as Graham suggests

The customer tells me the original fault was the P button not working (before he broke the machine physically) so it would seem unlikely that 2 PCBs would have the same fault.

Regards
Mike

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

myfil wrote: Yes please if you can email me the wiring diagram.

Your wish is my command. 😉

Jim.

[myfil]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

Assuming the PCB is OK does anyone know of a fault scenario where the P button would not function? The machine started the test Pgm, filled and started to wash, when I fitted the new PCB. The P button should them interrupt the pgm if held down for several seconds. It does not – it does nothing, just like on the previous PCB. The door, when opened, stops the wash action, as it should, so door switch seems OK.
Any ideas guys?

[Penguin45]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

This came up before on the Indesit version – I’m damned if I can find the thread. Heaters and earth leakage ring distant bells!

Chris.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

“P button”sounds to me like something with a tactile switch behind it. They are flimsy. I’ve got some I bought from RS. They’re so cheap you have to buy 10 to make a £2 order. Bit of a fiddly soldering job.
PM me if you’d like me to post out a couple.
Mike.

[myfil]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

The button on this PCB is the tiny “click” type – you can feel it clicking, on both the old and the new PCB. I think this is different from the tactile type, which I believe just works on the change in resistance when you bridge the two parts with your finger.

Mike

[hotpnt]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

have you tried pushing the button on the PCB directly?, with it removed from panel, there is very little room for error in the lining up of module button & actual P button, other thing to remember is that a lot of the new modules come without the buzzer fitted

[myfil]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

Will try with the module removed tomorrow (Monday).

Mike

[myfil]

Re: Hotpoint BFI62 Integ Dishwasher – Help! Dead Button.

Well the end to the story is a bit strange. It turned out the new module was faulty. Replaced the old one, and after many, many resets, finally got it working properly and stable. Still don’t know why the button stopped working.

My own conclusion is to stay WELL AWAY from these PCBs! Bunch of crap.

(and I waited WEEKS for indesit to send out the “new PCB”!)

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