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Re: Serina Pro 90 (range cooker)
Try this
http://www.elementreplacement.co.uk/sar … -153-c.asp
Mike.Re: Zanussi FJ1254 sticks on wash
When you say “no problem there” with heater insulation, don’t be fooled into thinking that just because it’s 20 or 30 times the safety limit, it isn’t causing your fault. 😉
Mike.Re: Lux EWD1409 E36
There’ll be another one along soon.
I’m fast coming to the conclusion that it is always worth looking at dry and/or wash elements first whenever a Lux product gives an odd fault.
Mike.Re: Domestic Appliance Testing
Martin wrote:Wouldn’t it be great if our trade were subjected to the same scrutiny the motor trade has? That ‘approved’ repairers had, by law, to PAT test appliances every year in every home in the land. That every appliance that failed would either need repairing or replacing to comply with the law. Chances are every repairer would get in the relevant testing equipment and be up for it pretty damn quick!!!! 😈
Very good point Martin. It won’t surprise me a bit if such a thing does come to pass eventually. Hope I’ll have retired before it happens because I don’t want to be going round all day testing appliances which have shown no signs of being faulty – it’s boring work and would send me to sleep. It’s supposed to happen already in all rented and commercial premises but I’m sure I’m not the only one who regularly comes across long outdated stickers where the test hasn’t been done for several years because of simple neglect.
I’d really like to see some statistics showing just how many people actually fall victim to faulty appliances in an average year in the UK. I wonder how it would compare with the number of victims of road accidents caused by engineers hurrying to get their rounds completed, were such studies ever to be done.
Mike.Re: Domestic Appliance Testing
Put me down for one of your PDF’s if/when it’s done, Martin 😉 . Free training is always welcome.
Mike.Re: Electrolux EWX14440W integrated washer dryer wont start.
Doh! Forgot about that one! Low insulation (even 20 megohm) dryer heater can cause this. Saw one like it a couple of weeks ago. Worth trying by disconnecting it whatever it measures. I’d try that even before bothering with diagnostics.
Mike.Re: meggers
lee8 wrote:Deaths and injuries do occur, people do get prosecuted, it just does not make national headlines.
In Wales there is a guy who didn`t clean the boiler he serviced, it spilled products of combustion into the premises, it killed the occupants.
He was sentenced last month I believe.
It does happen.
:rolls:
So what does that have to do with electrical safety?
Mike.Re: meggers
Specialist01269 wrote: I don’t quite understand why you seem to have taken this so personally when adv the engineer who started the topic in the 1st place obviously has not.
Andy
Andy,
If I had taken it personally (and I didn’t, I was just annoyed at what I consider to be a high-handed attitude by several posters) it would have been because I was once critcised on here, some years ago, for admitting one day that I had left my megger at home. (If anyone wants to dig out that old thread, go ahead, make my day.) I think it’s rather self-righteous of anybody to critcise others when they don’t know the full facts.
BTW where is the evidence for this much bandied about “fact” that most engineers don’t even own a megger?
Mike.Re: wasted callouts
Next time she calls, (when she’s forgotten about what you said to her 😆 ), tell her you will call once you have received payment for the two previous calls plus advance payment for the one you’re about to make.
Mike.Re: Electrolux EWX14440W integrated washer dryer wont start.
whiskeyjack6058 wrote:the city center of Leeds……
the luxury development where this machine sits is part of a few thousandBy ‘eck. How times change. OK, I think we can disregard the damp possibility!
It’s worth looking on the electrolux.co.uk site to see if there’s a configured pcb available. Probably more up to date than TDS and likely no more expensive than connect.
Mike.Re: meggers
That’s true. It was intended for DIYers. But if such a respected practitioner of our art can write a book suggesting such things to the public and has not yet, to my knowledge, after twenty years, been prosecuted for inciting people to injure or kill themselves then I don’t think I or anyone else on here has too much to worry about.
As for worrying about courts, just how many from our trade have caused injury or death to their customers? And how many have been taken to court for it? And how many are languishing in jail as we speak?
If you take your motor to the garage and pay them for an MOT test and next day a wheel falls off, are they liable for any damage caused?
I’m all for doing whatever is practical to ensure I don’t hurt anyone. But there are limits. I take responsibility for anything arising due to my workmanship. But if an element I didn’t even touch decides to go low insulation next day and kills my customer, I’ll be damned if that’s my fault.
Mike.Re: Electrolux EWX14440W integrated washer dryer wont start.
Certainly sounds like lock + module problem. Is it an EWM1000 behind the fascia module? Then whip it out and look for visible damage around the edge near the selector switch. Test any resistors and uf’s in that area.
Also have a peek under to see if there’s condensation on the plastic brush holders.
Mike.Re: meggers
I remember reading in Graham Dixon’s Washing Machine Repair manual, albeit about 20 years ago, (probably still got my copy somewhere) the suggestion to use the disconnect & try it method of elimination (with a plug in circuit braeker) to diagnose low insulation faults on washers.
I wasn’t even suggesting that.
We are talking about an appliance which is showing a fault code (not blowing a trip). We all know that many modern appliances do such a thing for earth leakage faults in the range of 20MR which is well within safety limits.
Haranguing adv for not having a megger will achieve nothing to advance the cause of public safety. More likely to drive him away from this site (and me too) where he would otherwise have undoubtedly had an opportunity to learn better methods.
Mike.
