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Re: Miele W3204: Gaining Access
I’m aware of possibly invalidating the warranty, if they find out about it and if they can prove that my modification had something to do with whatever went wrong with the machine if anything goes wrong with it. On the other hand, the more of my own generated electricity I use, the better value it works out — I get paid for every kWh I generate, whether it goes into my home or the grid. But what I generate *and use myself* doesn’t count down the main meter.
I did think briefly of operating the start button from outside the machine, with some sort of solenoid and plunger arrangement; but that seems to be a massively ugly hack. An opto-isolator in parallel across the switch contacts is just much more elegant. (And if the program selector works the way I hope it does, it should even be possible to select a wash program externally, so I can give the washing an extra spin.)
Re: Miele W3204: Gaining Access
Syncrolark wrote:Why not simply plug the machine in to a 24 hour timer?
Load machine, start program with button, arm timer, go to work.
To my knowledge, when the timer triggers the program will continue.Because this washing machine has an electronic timer, aot a mechanical one like all my previous machines; and after 8 hours or so without power, it will forget what program it was originally set to.
Electrofix wrote:by the looks of this your way in is the 2 screws at the side of the lid. loosen them about 1/2 inch then push them in to release front of lid then lift
Screws? All I see at the side of the lid are two raised oval sections, about 15 mm. long by 7 mm. wide. I thought these were part of the plastic moulding. Are these actually caps concealing screws, that can be removed?
Also, I don’t know if this means anything, but I notice that the plastic “fixing lugs” through which the screws pass that secure the lid to the back, seem to be hinged.
