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Re: LG WF-T1022TP Fill/drain
Yeah that’s right… would the fact that it is distributed in Southern Africa make a difference to your availability of data for those models?
Re: LG WF-T1022TP Fill/drain
Dave; I checked it and I get an F on the display when I select the FUZZY, JEAN or FAVOURITE programs. The others display the time for wash,rinse and spin. I can’t say for sure that the F is an error code since the machine has a seperate display for the basic errors like FILL, DRAIN, SPIN and DOOR OPEN.
ThanxRe: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
Have a continuity/induction tester ,powered by 2 hearing aid batteries. Ideal for fuses, checking for power at a socket outlet or finding a break inside extension leads.
10cc hyperdermic syringe (without needle) filled with general purpose grease. Great for those hard to get to moving parts that could do with a spot of lube, and drain pump mounting bolts that never come out after the pump has leaked for a few months.
Pocket sized gas blow torch. Like a serious electronic cigarette lighter (1300 degC). Good for soldering, bending plastic parts, heating a stubborn bearing race off a shaft and the occasional smoke break.
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
How about …. you’ve lived and worked in the village of say 500 houses for 20 years. Worked on just about every house at some time or another. Customer, new resident in town, tries to explain to you how to get to the house.
Just give me the friggin house number and street name…idiot!!!Customer drops a machine off at your workshop while you are out on a call, leaves no contact details or fault description with the machine, phones you a month later and asks “Is my machine fixed yet?” ….Uh duh! Which machine is yours??
A customer calls about his machine not working just b4 christmas. I can’t fit a call in that suits him so I tell him to drop the machine inside the gate of the workshop with name and contact details inside. 2 weeks pass, find no machine at gate… ok can’t b urgent. 2 hours prior to his departure for christmas holidays, demands his machine back. I tell him it wasn’t delivered. “Oh yes it was! my sons dropped it off”
Describes the machine… I find it around the side of the workshop with scrapped machines for parts. Now he demands compensation, he wanted to take the machine to his holiday house.
Put it where I told him and it would have been fixed… in time.Re: LG WF-T1022TP Fill/drain
Thanks Dave, not that I can recall. I am going back there on Saturday though and will check again. Will let you know.
Thanks Dave
I’ll replace the thermistor and see it working.
Age is around 1987… and it weighs a ton!Andy
Re: LG 7,2kg AFL bearings
Can you get that much clothing into that drum? Only 7.2kg domestic machine not commercial. Will take a look at the water levels during cycles.
Yep… that’s why I’m trying 2 fix it. Had a suspicion about that too, couldn’t get any dope on it. Will check the net later ( u said a triac, will look for it) I was looking for SCR’s and transistors etc.
ThanxFrom Namibia. I ran the machine and measured the tacho output whilst in circuit with the PCB and I get around 2,3VAC up to 8,5VAC as it accelerates in the wash mode. I think the problem is definintely on the PCB somewhere. I have afeeling it is a diode or a cap that’s gone. Found some dope on the speed control IC used and will do more tests 2morrow. Measured the motor field coils at 1,2ohms and across the rotor (stationary) 2ohms. Do these sound about right for that type of motor?
In Africa anything goes… have 2 check it out myself as I am the only local mad enough 2 repair other peoples appliances. Expense being the customer’s concern and reason for delving in2 finer component checks that may help with a remedy. I’m not 2 hot on the electronic side, yet most brands r going that way. Electromech… keep them coming.
Thanks for the advice, will keep trying. Any idea what type of signal I should b getting form tacho, ?Thanx 4 the response.
The main motor armature was rewound due 2 a short on one of the windings and since the motor was reinstalled the following is happening: In wash, the motor ramps up 2 beyond normal wash speed in both directions, which is unusual since the wash speed is usually attained quickly; and there is no motor activity for the spin cycles.
