Opening Condenser dryer doors prior to end of cycle

[bobokines]

One of my customers (my first Repairs@ job) pointed this out to me yesterday.

When I told them that the main reason for stat failure on condenser dryers is the customer opening the door prematurely, they showed me the instruction book which implies, in several places that it is safe to open the door during the cycle…

The model in question is a Creda T622CW

http://imagebank.indesitcompany.co.uk/p … T622CW.pdf

From page 8 and 11

The ‘Cool Tumble’
phase
About 10 minutes before the programme is completed, the heating
elements will be switched off and the programme enters the final
‘Cool Tumble’ phase. During this phase the fabric is cooled. You
should always allow the dryer to complete this phase.
By opening the door you can check the dryness of the load as often
as you wish and if you want to remove some items before they are
fully dry. (This is particularly useful for a mixed load where you want
to iron some items, but others are to be fully dried.) You will need
to press the start button after closing the door to re-start the
programme. See section ‘The Controls’.

Page 17…

How dry you
want the
clothes
As it takes longer to fully dry clothes than to have them ready for
ironing, you may wish to remove some clothes when they are slightly
damp, ready for ironing and then continue to dry the remainder until
they are fully dry.

Bulky items

Some bulky items such as padded jackets can be dried, with care,
and we do advise that you remove these items several times, shake
them and return them to the dryer.

Bob

[Martin]

Re: Opening Condenser dryer doors prior to end of cycle

bobokines wrote:Some bulky items such as padded jackets can be dried, with care,
and we do advise that you remove these items several times, shake
them and return them to the dryer.

The same instruction (above) is added to Hotpoint/Creda Vented dryers and on several pages of the instruction booklet they show the following warnings:

“Never switch the dryer off with a hot load in the drum. You must terminate every programme with a cool tumble phase”.

Whenever any faults develop with a dryer it’s abundantly clear that the user never reads the book anyway irrespective of what is written within 🙁

[funkyboogy]

Re: Opening Condenser dryer doors prior to end of cycle

called to a re-occuring stat problem recently,replaced stats…
& let t/d test for a while,after about 20 mins drum was struggling to move after it had stopped to reverse…eventually drum stopped and guess what…stats failed,
anyway replaced motor-cap and stats and never been back…i now replace cap&stats everytime…

models…most htp/creda/crusader etc condensors???

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