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I haven’t found the heater yet, looking for a diagram.
I noticed some rat pellets around the board (another thing you have to think about with electrix in Uganda!) so I pulled the board, cleaned some suspicious looking stains with a QTip and rubbing alcohol and put it back. I ran 2 full cycles successfully, and then it faulted on the 3rd at the same point in the process. It’s like the pump was laboring to get the last big of water out, and when I pulled the filter and the extra water came out the pulsing stopped… Is it worth replacing the drain pump?
I took the black hose pipe off and it was clear. I used a piece of binding wire in the port on the side of the drum where that hose attaches and it felt blocked at first…I also noticed a break in one of the wires going to the harness that plugs into that pressure switch so I fixed it with a heat shrink connector…
Then I started a cycle and it engaged the drain pump, then faulted. The pump continues running while the fault lights are blinking and the only way to reset is to unplug the machine. It did that about six times, then started a cycle. It doesn’t like something that happens whenever that drain pump is running and there is no water.
Are the heater wires the 2 reds going to the drain pump? Since we’re in the land of no hot water, and this unit doesn’t have a dryer, I can disconnect anything that has to do with heat. I’ll check the pressure chamber and revert
Thanks again, I’ll have my multimeter tomorrow and can check it…It occurred to me that you were talking about earth, and the plug on my machine was the 2-prong receeded German style plug (Type F) and it was plugged into a Ugandan plug (Type G) which means it didn’t get an earth. I cut the old plug and installed a Type G plug and the shocking me issue went away but I am still getting faults….always when it is draining…do I need a new board?
I am running a load of clothes just for testing sake. It got to rinse and then faulted, so I reset it to run on rinse cycle, and it starts out by draining and then it faults, so I set it to spin and it spun for a while and then faulted when the drain engaged…
Wow that’s cool, almost definitely not available here. Can I do it with a multimeter? I have one of those. I looked in my unit’s breaker box and can see where it’s earthed.
I see a blue thing that looks like a switch right under the top cover in the front right corner, there’s a black rubber hose coming out and going down, that’s the one you’re telling me to trace?
Thanks again. Before I got your reply I took the drain pump off, disassembled it and cleaned a fair amount of brown junk and soap residue out of it. In the process I found that one of the red wires going to the drain pump (there’s a small white plug with 2 red wires going to it) had been rat chewed and was being held together by 2 strands. I cut off the bad wire and put it back together with a heat shrink connector and put it all back together. I turned on the machine to test it, and now, when it first starts it engages the drain pump for a second, the water starts to fill…and then it faults!
The machine was a bit wobbly so I reached down to unscrew the foot and the machine shocked me, so I guess now I have to trace every wire and look for another short…but would that be causing this fault?
Thanks Dave,
I watched it go through 2 full cycles, a rinse, a spin and a drain cycle. The fault always happens at the very end when the water has all drained out…it’s like right now the “End” light should be coming on but instead it faults. The reason I talked about the pump pulsing is because it was actually pulsing while the lights were flashing and pushing the power/stop buttons did nothing to make it stop, I had to kill the power.
