[Daveo007]

Re: Indesit IDL40 Not Heating

Afternoon all,

Well I got the new heater element, genuine part from an on-line company, fitted it and gave it a test and low and behold the dishwasher is still not heating up.

I’ll give the information that I have measured so far and see if anyone out there can help me find the fault.

The new heating element has a resistance reading of 25 ohms

The heating element has 0 voltage when plugged in and turned on, but when the cycle is running the element gets a feed of around 240 Volts AC, the voltage starts a few seconds after the mains water feed has plumbed some water into the dishwasher and then finishes at the end of the cycle.

That would tell me that if I have voltage and a circuit that something should happen, but it isn’t.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Dave

Needs to be quick my hands are getting soft from all this manual labour at the sink that is…

[Daveo007]

Re: Indesit IDL40 Not Heating

Sounds like good advice, will confirm the resistance reading and order a new Heating Element.

Regards
Dave

Although will update with results for the benefit of others later…

[Daveo007]

Re: Indesit IDL40 Not Heating

How many times have we bought something found a problem then looked up what you bought on the internet and found that it is rubbish?

Ok we are all guilty of it once in a while.

I have a Indesit IDL40 actually had it 18 months but only used for 8 months as we bought it ready to move to our latest bigger house.

Same problem water not heating, cutlery not drying, residue from tablet still in dishwasher etc…..

I have checked the resistance in the heater element which there is some (it shows infinity on 1X scale but shows 5 ohms on the 10X scale), I contacted Indesit helpdesk by e-mail asking what the resistance should be but they basically told me it was and I quote

“I have spoken to our Technical department regarding your query and they have said that unfortunately we are unable to supply this information as it is a specification we would consider company confidential and is also information only held by our Technical Department”

I have then checked the voltage at the element during the short 44 minute cycle and it shows good AC voltage during the heating phase.

To me this must point at the heater element £30 inc delivery is the best price I’ve found so far.

My latest brain wave will be too remove the element wire it up to the mains and see if I have heat (I’m not going to recommend anyone does this, but if still alive I will report back with results later, unless some brainy dishwasher electrician can shed light on my results so far.

Cheers

Dave

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