Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

[allan73]

The tennent at this job whose english is a little poor, has complained of this m/c not moving on from wash but also flashing lights on facia.I’ve found the water heating element to be open circuit which explains the not finishing but I did not think this would cause a fault code on this model or am I wrong ?
Also the rear counter weight has broken & fallen off, which was not reported but again I can’t see any bearing on the fault code.can anyone offer any advise on this?

Allan.

[Allsorts]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

IIRC the thermister has a timeout fault code and I would imaging that the heater not working would activate this… Also, check for damaged wires near the counterweight.. possibly earthing against the casing.

[allan73]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

Thanks for the reply Allsorts, I didn’t realise there was a time out fault code for heating on this model 😳
Do you know if the hotpoint wf series have a fault code for this also ? I thought they just washed indefintely.

Allan.

[Allsorts]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

The only thing I can say here is that some time ago I had the exact same model with a broken thermistor wire and it coused the machine to throw out an error code .. it was traced to one of the two little blue wires going to the thermistor.

I would also check that your thermister is working.

George

[iadom]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

NTC fault will throw up an error code, OC heater will stick on wash cycle without error code.

Jim.

[allan73]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

Thanks for the replys, I’ll check the weight hasn’t damaged any wires when it’s dropped off.

Allan.

[gandh1]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

iadom wrote:OC heater will stick on wash cycle without error code

OR TRIP!!!

[iadom]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

I would guess a short circuited heater might, no reason why an open circuit one would trip though. 😕

[gandh1]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

not all the time of course but ive had a couple of h/ps which were o/c and tripping too, guessing the breakage damages the insulation as well?

[iadom]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

Also guessing that such a heater would register as down to earth as well. 😀

[gandh1]

Re: Indesit WIDL126suk open circuit heater

of course 🙂 although on those occasions it never tripped straight away, it was always a few mins into the cycle, i guess, when the element recieved power?, anyways i think the sun has got me – going back outside now for another fiddle as no-one on here atm seems to know how to fix karchers 8)

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