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Re: Differences between self-employed and being an employee
I think once you’re established as self employed and have the customer base you’ve got more security than an employee. (At least as long as the government hold off their “regulating”).
Mike.Re: Siemans dishwasher SN53200gb/08 fd7207 skipping heating
I had a n/c stat opening far too early on a dw (albeit a WHP) once. Crushed the old stat after replacement and found the contact inside all corroded and not being held closed like it should. Should be cheaper than a timer. I’d clip meter leads across stat whilst operating heater and see what happens. Especially if you’re going back to remove timer anyway.
Mike.Re: Differences between self-employed and being an employee
nospin wrote: I know my phone is ringing and that means 2 or 3 times the earning power of a 25k a year engineer and i can see so much more out there.
Let me know where you’re based. I’ll be over to help you out. Just be a couple of weeks to pack up here. 😆
Mike.Re: Hygena APM8513
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:Checked R1 and R3, the 6.2k’s, on site.
Doh :error: .
Read 6.2k across each of them and thought, “Oh well, not that then.”
Just forgot that they’re mounted in parallell. So reading should have been 3.1k. One of them is indeed O/C. (R3 though, not R1, so you were wrong there Chris :snigger: )
So Chris triumphs again. Checked all the other likely stuff and all seems OK.
So back with it next week and fingers crossed. Meanwhile can anyone explain to me what the function of these resistors is and why one down = (I hope) no motor?
Mike.
Update:9/9/09 It was that. 😀Re: Hygena APM8513
Checked R1 and R3, the 6.2k’s, on site. In fact I packed a kit to sort that before going to the job, having only, “built-in washer, no make to be seen, no spin” to go on 8) . Will rigorously check them again of course.
Incidentally, what you’re saying now seems to contradict what you said in Nov. last year, in this same thread 😕 .
I’m sure Tony is no more worried about me putting him out of business than we are worried about the public learning too fast and catching up with us. I ain’t got time; they ain’t got time. 😀
Mike.Re: On / Off switch for a AEG Favorit 4040
Think it’s the whole switch assembly about £90 😯 . 8996461736119
Worth dismantling the old one and trying to fix it. I did one once; fiddly, but to save that sort of money worth a try. I charged £50 for that job which is top money round here. The problem on that one was some blown tracks in the switch assy due to someone using too much knee pressure on the door during installation causing a short.
Mike.Re: w/pool arg488/g
I’ve got a suspicion it might be 481902180351 as that’s described as a door(MPT) or door-ice (connect) for that model. and it’s about £4.
Mike.Re: Zanussi ZWF12070W fill prob.
IME (limited) they drain out and go to zero mins, when the recirc pump is dead. (Although that was on a ZWD). I think the green dryer coil does have a different resistance. The others are about 3.4k IIRC. Sounds like heater/ntc but I’m sure you thoroughly checked them. What about diagnostics? Also damp/condensation on plastic brush holders seems to cause odd faults.
Mike.Re: Teknik (Bosch) SMS6012GB/14
Martin, how come you’ve changed your avatar back to the old version? I thought it was LJ. Couldn’t believe how clued up, clear and concise he’d suddenly become!
( Apologies to Lee. And don’t let that bit of praise go to your head, Martin).
Mike.Re: Hygena APM8513
Did this get sorted? ‘Cause I’ve got APM8513/2 same problem. Motor absolutely refuses to move at any point. True I didn’t take brushes off (it was late) but the m/c is in a holiday cottage and has had little use. There was a good circuit through brushes, through field coil, through motor TOC, and tacho measured something believable.(180? IIRC)
Timer goes very quiet at times then seems to gently tick back into life (I’m not talking abouting heating phases).
I tried shorting out the heatsinked triac (presumably motor). That led to some coughing from the pump 😕 but still no life from motor.
Pump runs Ok and fills and drains and heats fine.
I’ve got the module here now. Resistors I checked on site. No burns. Going to go through it with fine toothed comb tomorrow. It’s just two relays, some resistors, some diodes, a few capacitors, few triacs and the flat black centipede. It looks shiny brand new, what could possibly be wrong? 😡
EMW will only get the business after I’ve had a damn’ good look. What magic are they using?
Mike.Re: Zanussi small spider price alert.
I wonder if this is a small sign of some kind of industry pressure to try and make it less economical for us to repair split tubs and force us to accept welded tubs as a fact of life.:idea:
Mike.Re: Hotpoint WM52P
iadom wrote:
Or use the special pliers provided by Hotpoint to refit the wires into the Pressac plug, thats assuming you have a pair of course. 😉They haven’t “provided” me with any. Think I’d probably say no thanks if they wanted to. 😆
Mike.Re: Hotpoint WM52P
Well you could pull off the motor plug and the plug that fixes to the module and firmly connect a test lamp (faster to read than most digital meters) using male 1/4″ spades
at each end of each wire in turn and wiggle till you find the intermittent connection. It’ll be the motor plug itself (I mean the one that plugs into the motor) most likely cause that’s the one that gets jiggled about. Just rewire using insulated amp tags.
Mike.Re: indesit wd?
Tell ’em no go without a model no., then you can take an emw recon board with you. You’ll probably need it anyway. Actually, I bet it’s a WD12.
Mike.
