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Re: Hotpoint TCD980 Tumble Dryer stats
iadom wrote:Only last week I had to fit…..
It lasted ten days and then the cycling stat failed. 🙁
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HDHang on, it’s only Tuesday. Been reading H G Wells? 😆
Mike.
Re: Hotpoint TCD980 Tumble Dryer stats
I have had one of these TOC 42’s from Q’tex and I am sure these temperatures are very different to original spec. Everywhere I look on the net I find the figures 120 / 140 but the kit I have is marked on the stats 105 / 150. By my interpretation that’s 10 degrees too hot for the toc and 15 too cool for the cycling.
Cycling stat doesn’t matter too much, it’ll just take a bit longer to dry I should think but +10 on the safety seems a tad high to me. They should be able to source closer to spec stats than that. They’ve got buying power and other suppliers seem to manage to get it right.
Worse still, when I kindly emailed them to gently point this out to them in a helpful way, they go on the defensive and say the only thing wrong with their stats is the wrong info on the packet:“The correct thermostats are in the package but unfortunately the information on the outside of the package is incorrect.
It should read White Spot – One Shot Stat
Yellow spot – Cycling Stat”
(There’s no info of the kind on the packet I have, just a short fit list of models. And anyway, there’s no yellow spot on these pattern parts.)
That’s after informing me in the first email that:I have checked and the TOC42 are correct, the white spot is equivalent
to the cycling stat. We have sold hundreds of these from the last batch
that came in with no problems.The person writing these emails then, obviously doesn’t have a clue. I won’t make public the name; not his / her fault that he / she has not been adequately trained.
Oh well, I guess they can afford to lose a small customer like me. But if anyone else is using their kits, I’d say be careful.
Mike.Re: Zanussi ZWD1272 Frozen
mikky2002uk wrote:Or child lock
What he said. Manual should be on Connect site.
Mike.Re: whirlpool dw adg 642/1 wont fill
Might be the rectangular 1 or 1.5uF capacitor on the pcb. It causes lots of strange faults. Read Dave (electrofix) ‘s post in pcb repairs thread.
Mike.Re: AEG B2.60D 611564949/00 oven door exploded diagram pleas
Many thanks Martin. That diagram shows there were screws going into the bottom of the door so that explains it! There are slots where they would have gone in but no screws. Definitely some bits missing. Never mind, I shall bodge and fettle a little on Monday and somehow get it back together in time for the Christmas dinner.
Mike.Re: Belling IDW603 access to drain pump
Try the same on a “Kenwood” table-top dishwasher :rolls: .
And wear something for protection against cuts.
Mike.Re: Hotpoint WMA76
Muv wrote:
Now the machine takes in water, and then drum rotates in one direction as if its about to go in to a full spin….
Then after about 3 minutes just stops again..!I think that’s normal behaviour on some Indesits, isn’t it?
Mike.Re: 2001 Diplo adp8132 (smeg) suppressor help
I too would have done what Mark said, there and then. I think it’s quite likely that that’s the only fault and not enough juice was getting past to allow the thing to operate. Maybe you’ve got it as a re-con by now?
I sometimes leave them by-passed while I order a spare, washer or dw. Check with a nearby transistor radio usually shows no interference anyway.
Mike.Re: Bosch WAE28367GB/29 F21
Plenty of good secondhand BSH motors on Ebay.
Did you spin the motor with your fingers and check for a volt or so of o/p (DC IIRC) from the tacho connections?
Sometimes the tacho magnets split.
Mike.Re: zwf1231w
Changing heater relay is an easy job. Just five legs to unsolder and then wriggle it a bit like pulling a tooth. It’ll probably be labelled RL1 but you can figure out which one it is by seeing where the tracks from the heater connections go. Cut the top off the old one and look inside it to confirm your diagnosis.
Mike.Re: WOW Discounts
I got a Matsui dw door switch from Buyspares a couple of days ago; which is one of Connect’s retail outlets. It was a little bit cheaper than buying it trade from them, cheaper than I could get it anywhere else on the planet, only £2.50 postage and they included a 60{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} discount voucher (on a £100 order) for nakedwines.com which I have offered to my brother as I hardly ever drink the stuff. And don’t forget, when you are a retail customer you can send stuff back at the drop of a hat if you don’t use it 😉 . (Not the wine, maybe.)
The whole spares market has been completely turned upside down over the last couple of years.
However, I just checked and they’ve bumped up the price now so things change from day to day – you never know where you stand. 😕 (Edit, no they haven’t. I was looking at a different part.)
Sometimes I just tell the customer to get it themselves. I send them a link by email and they sort it all out. Saves me having to faff about and keeps my turnover figure low.
Mike.Re: zwf1231w
You will probably find the service manual on Connect website.
Sounds as if it may be aborting program and draining as they do sometimes for certain faults. It’s all there in the manual somewhere.
I haven’t bought any spares (as trade) from Connect for about a year but the website does still come in useful sometimes.
Mike.Re: Zanussi ZWF1632 Prod 91452111002 Program Locked
I think it was a 1400 ZWD I looked at a few months ago. I found the solution in the service manual IIRC. Can’t find it now but a quick Google Zanussi child lock reminds me that there may be a couple of buttons linked by a lock symbol and you just press them together and hold for 5 seconds. Had a look at manual for a similar model to yours though and found nothing there.
Mike.
