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Re: washer over fill
Thanks ever so much for all your help. I can get back on with my life now! 2 things that nearly had me going off in the wrong direction:
1. When I reassembled the machine, after I had had the front off and the water was coming in “like a machine gun”, when I took it apart again I noticed that the white plastic clamp around the tubing between the pressure switch and the door interlock had not been put back on (by me). I wondered whether that had caused a pressure leak that caused the strange demand for water.
2. When I turned the machine on and when I selected a program it would spend ages clicking. I was convinced (late at night in a cold, damp cellar) that the clicking was coming from the pcb area. I put my ear to the pressure sw etc and still it did not seem to be coming from it.Also, interestingly, it worked absolutely fine on a 4 wash last night and after the 4 wash I did a fast spin on a 10 wash.
Fingers crossed for the next few days.
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I fitted a new pressure switch about an hour ago, set a “5” wash going and so far it is looking good.
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Hi, I checked the pressure tubes last night by taking each of the off, holding my thumb over one end and blowing hard into the other end. I did think about putting them into a bowl of water, similar to an innertube but i just held the pressure, didn’t notice any difference and passed them. however, since that time, and since I can’t do anything until tomorrow I put my sodden wash onto a “4” wash (everything I own goes into a “5” wash) and it seems to be running without a problem. As soon as it finishes I will run the pin hole check. Also if I can work out which terminals I need then I should be able to get a continuity across two of them whilst blowing down the tube to tell me that it is ok. It doesn’t look that difficult to change. 7 wires (I’ve already labelled them) and a push spring gripper thing on the back to hold it onto a slot in the side panel.
I did think of doing a boil wash to check the heater.
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well, I phoned the company that I spoke of before who I saw on the internet and I sent a photo of my board and they have never seen one before. It was retrofitted about 5 years or so after I bought the machine because I had a repair insurance policy and the engineer came out and replace the mechanical programme set up with an array of lights and a led display and the board to go with it. The internet company forwarded me to an extremely helpful electronics company and I had a chat with the guy there and he will look at my board and repair it if possible. However, I went back to my machine and to my shame the clicking is not actually coming from the board, as I said earlier, but from the pressure switch. The situatiopn now is that tomorrow morning I will go to GIAS (don’t know where else to go to) get and fit a pressure switch. I have sent a photo to the helpful electronics engineer that I spoke to. If the pressure switch fixes the problem then I have clean socks if it doesn’t then I will send my board to the Re-lectronics guy and take it from there. Basically I am seriously broke and I need clean clothes (occasionally).
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well, before I finished with it last night I took the front off again to see if I could see anything behind the metal screen that the timer and module sits behind. this morning I went back to it and removed some water sitting in the top of one of the brown multiple wire connectors, took a note of the part number, etc, and reassembled it. I started a program and after its usual clicking time it started and seemed to be running fine. After it had got past the stage where it went crazy last night I thought, “I need some clean socks,” so I stoppped it, loaded it with washing and now its gone bad again. It started after its clicking, let water in then went onto a clicking phase. I came away, went back and when I went back it had stopped. “5” was still showing on the display but there was no clicking and no progress. I started it again and will see how it gets on. I found a website last night that will repair my module for £34 plus vat plus p&p plus 25{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} loading because I am not trade – a total of £54.05. Just don’t know if it is the module or the timer.
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Martin,
It isn’t operating correctly. It takes an age to start the program because it has to go through all of its clicking and the way that the hot water was comng in was not right. I have had the machine for 12 years and I know the length of time that it takes to let water in because I have heard it at night for 12 years. The water was coming in like a machine gun and before I stopped it it had filled the drum beyond 3/4 full. That is not correct. Someone suggested that it was the pressure switch. I think that it is the module.
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Hi, sorry about all these postings, I’m just spending some time on it tonight.
Eventually I got it to start a “5” program – don’t know how – and as I watched it agitated back and forth, then it seemed to go a bit out of control. it started going back and forth faster, then it spun around with the soapy water in, then it started letting hot water in in short, sharp pulses. I turned the hot water off and it was still demanding water so I turned the machine off. I turned it back on again and it just let cold water in even though the display indicated 0. I turned it off and off at the plug, waited a bit and turned it back on again. It then went through all of its clicking, then I set the program to “10” – a fast spin” it did some more clicking and eventually it has done a “10” program. I have to say it was a bit scarry. Is it the pressure switch?
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flooded_cellar wrote:
the pressure switch clicks a lot and then stops clicking and nothing happens. Does this mean pressure switch failure or something else?
It isn’t the pressure switch that is clicking it is the electrical stuff in the bottom right hand corner of the front of the machine. Does this still indicate the pressure switch?
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Thanks Martin,
I cleaned out the pressure chamber, checked the tubes for leaks, put it all back together and now all that happens when I select a program is that the pressure switch clicks a lot and then stops clicking and nothing happens. Does this mean pressure switch failure or something else?
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Hi, a few more questions if I may?
– when I put it all back together, should the pressure chamber (a diamond shaped white plastic box) be uright or on its side?
– which is the pressure switch, the one on the door or the one that is mounted on the side of the machine?
– what is the function of the grey cable that goes to the belt brake type of thing at the back of the machine? Has this got anything to do with my problem?
– what is the function of the switch mounted on to the outer drum above the door latch?
– a more flipant question – what is the best brand of dehumidifer?
I pressure tested the tubes by placing my thumb over the end and blowing down them, they didn’t appear to leak.
Thanks.
