Two fried control boards in a month – different machines

[j_b]

Hi all,

Have been reading this forum a lot recently and despairing at the state of the washing machine industry. Very informative, if also very depressing!

A quick question. Our 13 y/o AEG washer died last month, tried various things to fix it, but turned out was the inverter board so would have been £200+ to replace.

Ended up getting a ‘reconditioned’ (yeah right) LG machine from a local repairs/pre-owned business.

Now after only a few weeks this has also died as a result of a friend control board. Luckily it had a warranty so will be replaced (with something cheaper and worse quality, unfortunately)

Question
Is there anything in the house plumbing or wiring that could have caused this?

I understand it could be mere coincidence. Our AEG machine had been in this house for 10 months before dying. But to have two different machines fail for the same reason in such a short timeframe has me wondering; I’ve never had a washer die like this before now.

Appreciate your opinions,
thanks,
Jim

[electrofix]

problem with modern machines is they of full of sensitive chip that dont like main bourne spikes in power. check the socket. had lots of sockets done by electricians these days who dont know how to tighten a screw properly, so 5 years or so down the line they can arc and start to blow things

Dave

[j_b]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply, I’ll open the sockets up today and have a look. They are in an external wall of our old, cold, damp house, so wonder if that could be causing problems.

Could a plug in circuit breaker (an AFCI one perhaps) help insure against this? Might give my electrician mate a call tomorrow and pick his brains.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Jim

[electrofix]

condensation on the boards is the only other thing that springs to mind

Dave

[j_b]

Hmm, it is in the corner of the kitchen, so a possibility. Think I may keep the new one in the next alcove over when it arrives to try to mitigate this.

Still, from what I can find online, the main PCB in LG machines is at the top (was at the bottom in our AEG) so I’d have thought it should be safer from that.

Picked up that knowledge about the PCB placement from your post in this thread;
https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/forums/forum/public-support-forums/buying-advice/863959-ebac-washing-machines

In spite of this, we’re now considering going for a Ebac machine, they’ve got a 7 year warranty at the moment, plus UK built and serviceable sounds appealing. Can’t find too much other info on them as they’re still relatively new/small company. Have you found any to work on yet?

Thanks again,
Jim

[electrofix]

not seen any but i believe most are exported

Dave

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