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Re: Indesit pressure switch

Thanks. I’ll try the bucket of water and blowing in and out tonight.

Aaaah Amstrad, brings back memories. I remember getting one as a teen.
I think my mum got it at Dixons. I got it home and to my eyes then it looked amazing. Loads of tweeters and woofers etc. Really excited, I put a record on and it sounded not to good…. Being inquisitive I took the back off one of the speakers only to find that all the tweeters and woofers were fake. It just had one speaker in it!! I used the speaker boxes and rebuilt them with stuff from Maplins.

I suppose Sugar was the Gerald Ratner of hi fi’s. Without the “gaffs”.
Oops, that’s my chances on The Apprentice out the window!

Wasn’t disappointed when I got my first little Marshall guitar amp though.

Thanks again for your ideas.

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Re: Indesit pressure switch

Oops, sorry for posting in the wrong place before.

Thank you guys so much for your advice.
I’m not a washing machine or plumbing engineer. I’m afraid I’m just a sound engineer but you’ve cleared some things up for me.

Before I read the posts I tried a little experiment. I removed the pressure switch and put a two way manual electrical switch over the 3 wires with 2 as the common. Switching this to pins 1 and 2 when the machine looked full enough set the whole thing in motion and it did a complete cycle. This confused me a little until I read your posts. After reading them I re attached the pressure switch and listened more closely. I realised that amongst all the clicks and whirrs,the switch wasn’t doing anything physically.

I therefore unplugged the hose and put a small hose onto the pressure switch, blowing into it had the same effect as the electric switch, I blew, sealed it, it ran a whole cycle. I’m thinking, therefore, that, as you said, it’s not the switch. Obviously no air pressure is coming out of the tub.
Would I be right in thinking that the tube or valve is therefore physically blocked. If so I shall ring the engineer, explain and ask him to unblock it.
Thank so much…. The things we do for the dear missus!

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Re: Indesit pressure switch

Thanks for your reply, I feel that you’re right.
I paid him £60. Told him I’d pay the rest if he can come back and diagnose the other problem. It was only when he left that I checked them both. It does seem odd though that there’s 3 pins attached to 3 wires and when you blow in it audibly clicks and goes to zero with 1 and 2 connected to multimeter but pin 2 and 3 seem to do nothing blowing with audible click either way.
Is pin 3 just there as type of dummy support perhaps and the third wire just happens to be there as it’s a standard lead?

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