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Re: Zanussi WDJ1094 dead – faulty interlock ?

Thanks very much – it indeed turned out to be the interlock, so my earache is now beginning to subside !

:o)

10 minute job yesterday – might be worth noting for others reading this in the future that you get access to the interlock by peeling back the rubber door seal. There is an electrical connection and a rubber hose at the bottom (for ‘full of water’ detection), as well as the ‘locked’ light.

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Re: APL8224/3 – no water circulating

Thanks for the replies. I took it all to pieces this evening, and this must be the easy model because I got the motor off in about 10 minutes !

I took the motor to pieces as well, but there were no obvious signs of something burning out. The bearing ‘nearest the water’ was rusty, and stiffer than the one at the other end, and there were signs of water getting in (though not really on the motor itself), but it looks like it’s designed to cope with that. The middle bit (stator ?) is showing signs of wear.

Here’s a piccy:

Oddly motor didn’t smell of burnt stuff. It can’t be the element though because it is reading a healthy 25 ohms. Could it be something on the pcb (in the door) ? I think the motor has definitely had it due to the awful noise it was making, but don’t want to replace it and it still not work !

On a completely different note – there’s something that sticks up through the floor of the dishwasher that has mains going to it – is it some sort of interrupter so that the element doesn’t heat up if there’s no water ?

Cheers,

Nic

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