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Re: Whirlpool/Hotpoint/Indesit dryer safety issue
I agree with what your saying about pushing up costs, but having a drum rotate against a felt strip and expecting lint not to escape into the body of the machine is asking for trouble. Of you take the same basic design as a washing machine and put the rotating drum inside a static drum, then you can have a seal between the static drum and the door, and that way the air intake can also be completely isolated from the exhaust ensuring there is no way for lint to escape and get back round into the heating element or the motor.
Re: Whirlpool/Hotpoint/Indesit dryer safety issue
We weren’t given any information about what was done, whether there was anything we should look out for or anything. The man just came, did his thing and went. I am generally very safety conscious and have been concerned about the fire risk from a tumble drier of any sort, never mind this specific one so I have always kept a close eye on it.
I find the design of the lint trap very poor because it does not seal tightly (I have replaced it but the replacement from new was as bad) so a lot of lint builds up in the plastic receptacle under the lint trap and every few weeks I have to vacuum a couple of large handfuls of lint out (and usually a couple of coins and other dross someone has left in their pockets).
I have also had the back off the machine a couple of times – once when I had to replace the heating element and once when the drive belt broke – and both times I have been shocked and the amount of lint that had collected inside the machine around the electronics, the motor, etc.
I would love to get rid of the machine but with four teenage children living in Scotland it’s just not practical to keep clothes clean and dry without it. As a result, fix or no fix I will be routinely taking the side off and cleaning out the machine as well as vacuuming out the lint from under the filter. I just can’t believe that in this day and age of safety consciousness there aren’t stricter regulations to require these machines to be designed with seals that can’t leak lint into the machine, with filters that seal tight to prevent lint loss into exhaust pipes etc. and inherently safe heating elements that don’t get hot enough to ignite the lint.Re: TVF770 Not Sensing Clothes Are Dry
It’s never occurred before yesterday when it occurred three times in a row. It was modified by Hotpoint following their recall about two months ago, but given then fact the machine is over 5 years old and gets run multiple times every day I wouldn’t like to say if there is any connection between the fault and the modification or if it is purely coincidence.
Re: Whirlpool/Hotpoint/Indesit dryer safety issue
I had mine fixed. I registered my Hotpoint TVF770 tumble drier on the Hotpoint website repair page just after the recall was announced, and it took over 15 months to have someone come and visit to repair the machine.
Unfortunately I was out when he came and my wife didn’t take note of what he did, so I am not sure what was replaced. I received an email a week in advance advising that they were coming on a specific day, and then a couple of days before, I got a more detailed email giving me a half-day time slot. He came within the time slot and left everything tidy.
My only complaint is that I keep the machine pulled out from under the worktop because I can’t get the vent hose not to kink behind the machine if I push it all the way back (I can’t believe there isn’t a technological solution for this these days!) and when I got home he had pushed it all the way in which had kinked the vent hose, and in fact made it separate from the back of the machine. I would have expected that someone working with tumble driers would have had enough awareness not to do that.
Otherwise, the experience was fine, but took a very long time to get to the front of the queue.
Re: Delonghi Coffee Machine Part Numbers
Hi Martin, thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately I know if can’t be because we love in a soft water area and I have descale the machine every time the descale light has come on since new, and the steam generator was only replaced a couple of months before the problems with the thermal cut outs started.
Thanks for the idea though. Anything else?Re: Delonghi Coffee Machine Part Numbers
I called contacted DeLonghi as you suggested, and they were not a lot of help. They thought the two parts were the same, but from the information they had available to them they could not be sure.
I ended up ordering two temperature cut-outs with the same part number (parts 75 and 77 on the third diagram on this page http://www.appliancefactoryparts.com/sm … fecta.html). I fitted them both, and the steam generator worked fine for two days. After two days the machine showed a ‘General Alarm’ and stopped working. I reset the machine and found the steam generator was not working again, and part 77 had gone open circuit again.
Thinking that possibly the parts I had ordered were not meant to be identical, I ordered a high temperate thermal cut out from a different vendor, and replaced 77 with that. When I switched on the machine it heated up, the steam generator worked, but when I pressed the button for hot water I got lots of steam instead, as though it had overheated, and then I got the general alarm again, and the thermal cut out had gone open circuit again.
I don’t want to keep blowing thermal cutouts as they are not cheap, but I can’t seem to get to the bottom of what should be a simple problem – and I don’t want to throw away an otherwise expensive and working machine. Is anyone able to give me some insight to get this fixed?
Thanks
Re: Electrolux EW1006F Randomly Stops
Hi, thank you for all your advice.
I can confirm that the two hoses are definitely connected to the right pressure sensors because I only disconnected them one at a time, and also because one is longer than the other, so if they were the wrong way around, one would be a loose fit and the other would be very tight.
I have also checked the drain hose, but it is completely clear. The drain hose is connected just below the level of the top of the machine to an appliance trap and is held on with a jubilee clip, rather than being pushed into a stand pipe, so it’s not possible for it to sit below the water level in the trap.
I’m rapidly running out of ideas, but the machine still completes all the programs fine when the half load button is pressed, but gets stuck when its running full loads. I have found a copy of a timer chart for the machine on partmaster.co.uk (124752601u-EN). The time chart shows the water levels through the programs and in the F and the G programs is shows a dotted line for water level going up to level 2, and a solid line at level 1. My guess is that must be the difference between full load and half load? It would be roughly where these dotted lines reach the 2 level that the machine just stops, and when I click the dial on one click, it then drains and then seems to continue ok. When it fills with water, it just fills and then stops, it doesn’t agitate the clothes at all, so I guess it is the water level sensor at level 2 which is the problem.
Is there anything else to check first? Is there any way to check that and confirm the results before buying a new sensor? I guess I could wait for it to stop and then put a multi-meter across the contacts on the sensor and see what it is reading?
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Re: Electrolux EW1006F Randomly Stops
I was wondering why it had two switches – that makes a lot of sense – thanks.
The single heater safety switch I noticed was easy to get to switch when I blew into it, but the three stage switch very easily swiched the lower level, but the upper level took a lot more ‘puff’ and there was very little between the upper level switching and the overflow switching (of course all non scientific and just measured by mouth).
Does the machine use the level switches to switch on and off the water inlets, or does it do that independently, and then measure what it’s put in? The reason I ask is that the machine has never appeared to overfill – with no clothes in it the water level sits just at the bottom of the glass in the door – but when the machine stops, it typically appears to have just filled with water and then be waiting on something before carrying on. I thought it was the heater (which I recently replaced and which did appear to solve the problem initially, but then it came back), but putting it on a boil wash with a pre-wash from position A, it runs through the pre-wash no problem, gets to B, fills, heats the water very hot (but not boiling), then moves to C and stops in the middle of C. If I nudge it forwards a click, it drains, does a quick spin and then starts the rinses at F, but gets stuck in the middle of F. Again a nudge forwards makes it drain and move on until it gets to the softener rinses at G, where it gets stuck in the middle again, but following a click on it drains, goes through the spins and stops.
I have made sure I am not being impatient because when it last stopped at C I left it all night to see if it would move on, but by the morning it was still there until I nudged it on a click.
As I mentioned previously, the half loads run from beginning to end no problem.
Does all of that give you any thoughts on whether it’s the level switches or if I should be looking somewhere else?
Thank you for your help.
Re: Electrolux EW1006F Randomly Stops
Thanks for that. I had no idea it was as old as that!
A quick search of a number of spares sites brings up 1246839102 at between £59 and £89 (already a high price for such an old machine), but every site I can find lists 1245355209 as discontinued. I’m on the verge of telling my mother-in-law to buy a new machine, rather than try to fix this one, despite it’s 9 month working life – but before I do, do you think there anywhere to look that might (a) have the parts at a more sensible price and (b) still have the second part in stock somewhere?
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Re: Electrolux EW1006F Randomly Stops
Thanks for that. I’ll look up the PNc number tonight when I get home to double check.
Maybe the machine was sitting new and unused in the outhouse longer than 5 or 6 years – it was certainly purchase new and has only been in the house and in use for 9 months or so – it’s amazing how time flies!
Re: Electrolux EW1006F Randomly Stops
Martin,
Thanks for the advice. Any ideas how I can identify the second level switch? All the exploded diagrams I can find on parts websites only show one.
Re: Electrolux EW1006F Randomly Stops
Since 44 people have looked at my question, but no one has been able to make any suggestions about faults, I have done some more fault finding, and discovered something odd.
The machine runs just fine if I select ‘Half Load’ but if I deselect it, the machine stops at a number of stages through the programs (as detailed above). I don’t know if this gives more of a hint as to what the problem could be – but I hope someone can give me some ideas.
I notice that the machine has two level switches and two pressure tubes which come from the box next to the pump, but when I look up exploded diagrams on the internet, they all show only one level switch and pressure tube. Is it possible one could be faulty and not identifying the water level for a full wash, but with the level being less on a half wash it manages ok? One level switch is a simple on / off switch, by the way, while the other one has three stages, each of which switches in turn as the pressure in the tube increases.
Re: B&Q Blyss WAP-020EC Air Conditioner
No, I bought the unit nearly new but second hand. It says on the back it was manufactured in 2011. They have a newer version they are selling now, but the way the air outlet is designed and works is completely different.
Re: B&Q Blyss WAP-020EC Air Conditioner
I actually called B&Q after looking online and before posting here. B&Q tell me they don’t keep copies of manuals for products they have made for them, so they can’t give me a copy and their only suggested is to search the internet!
I am aware of how the unit works. I am using it to keep a room cool which I have a number of PCs running in. I already have a duct because I had an extractor fan, just the fan didn’t keep the heat down enough, so I want to use this unit instead. I just don’t want to break a perfectly good piece of kit by pushing and pulling at bits the wrong way because I didn’t read the manual!
