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Re: Hotpoint BFI620 Heater Error?
cockney steve wrote:Before jumping to the conclusion that it’s the PCB, you need to follow through the heater-circuit…..invariably, the wash set on the dial, corresponds with a specific temperature required to be” seen” -older machines had several different specific-temp thermoswitches,for this.
I suspect yours may well have a thermistor which the PCB “reads” to check if the temp. required has been reached.
)Hi, I saw this thread whilst searching for the exact same issue as the OP. @cockney steve you may not be an engineer but you speak a lot of sense. I’ve put a multimeter on the heater cylinder and found I was getting between 25.8 and 27.8 ohms depending on how steady I could keep my hands. I turned the juice on and flicked the multimeter to volts AC and expected to see 230 volts but nothing. Well 1 volt but that quickly trickled away to zero. I don’t want to assume that this is the board but, is it? I’ve taken it off and examined all the soldered joints with my jewellers loupe and can’t see any signs of burning. So I’ll throw it out there. Should I be following through the heater circuit before condemning the board and how would I do that?
