[aardvaarkk]

Briefly just one or two seconds, at slow speed
(as I recall, in the drain/spin programme the machine does quite a bit of shuffling the clothes around before it tries to run at full speed. This is failing long, long before it gets to that point, still in the draining and shuffling stage, after less than 10 seconds or so.)

I’ll check the magnet later today. What am I looking for?

[aardvaarkk]

The motor turns at its slow speed. ( I thought it went both ways, but not so sure now.)

And I did get it to run the drain/spin programme once, so high speed spin worked for a time (though it seems it won’t do it now because controller won’t even try.) I can’t get it to try high speed now.

For clarity, here’s what it was doing:
1. select drain/spin, press start
2. motor spins one way briefly (balancing load, I guess?)
3. error lights start flashing
4. motor again briefly (balancing load, I guess?)
5. stops.

It also seems that the door interlock is preventing electronic door opening (even if I turn off and on again.)
So perhaps it thinks the drum is spinning?
Or it thinks there’s water in the drum? (I will try to test that again when the brushes are back in, and see if it tries to pump it out.)
As a non-expert I feel this is the vital clue…?

thanks again very much for your help, Dave. Much appreciated.

[aardvaarkk]

Thanks for the tip for getting them back in. Both are fairly shiny.

[aardvaarkk]

Thanks — I will try to check out the brushes.

[aardvaarkk]

Thanks Dave!
I’m curious to understand how the brushes could be at fault — the drum turns both ways, and spins at high speed, so it seems that juice is getting to the motor… any thoughts?

[aardvaarkk]

Thank you Dave. I did the swapping over option earlier and it was a lot easier than I feared. I have a solder sucker, so I didn’t need braid. The pieces came out easily without me melting the PCB.

And the cooker now seems to be working properly.

Thanks again

[aardvaarkk]

Thanks Dave, you are quite right, it is a fused relay.

It took me some time to work out there are two relays controlling the main element, and they both need to be on to get heat. The first one is connected to the main control knob, and the second one to the thermostat. That’s why the one worked and the other didn’t.

[aardvaarkk]

Thanks Dave. How do I check? Cheers

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