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Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
You were correct kwatt – thanks. One of your members came out yesterday & changed it – keeping our fingers crossed it holds out and doesn’t go again.
I know the capacitors can go which causes individual parts to fail, but do you know what fails on them to make everything shut down?
It’s nice to have it back working anyway!
Cheers, Peter
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
I appreciate your reply – but if the board puts 240V to the compressor (which I presume it would do), what is the difference of me putting 240V to it?
My thoughts were that if the compressor was gone, then we’d probably be best to scrap it – if not it might be worth salvaging.
That said, the fan is also off, the interior fridge light is off, the water and ice won’t work either. I just get a single click when I switch it on & a back-lit display with nothing on it – no buttons operate either.
Anymore thoughts on how to proceed ..?
Re: Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer broken down – help!
Hi folks, slightly different problem to most.
I’ve had no chattering of relays at all, display fine, everything pretty much fine – water, ice, etc. Tonight I opened the fridge, after 10s the light goes out and the display goes blank (back light still working).
The compressor is not working, nor the fan. There is no build up of ice behind the panels in the freezer either, I also hoover the dust out now & then too.
Is this the capacitor fault on the rear board possibly? I’ve not put power directly to the compressor yet, but can do.
Ser nos are: 8586 158 15030 & 11 0631 006745.
Any help much appreciated pls! 😕
Peter
Re: AEG oko lavamat 74640 update. Error code E34.
Hi Ewan, yes that is exactly what burnt out on mine, I’ll await your outcome. if it fixes yours, I think my board will be going the same way, Cheers, Peter
Re: AEG Lavamat (Zanussi) – E34 & E52 Errors
Thanks Martin for your concise reply. Hmm whether its worth fixing is debatable, new element plus PCB, and its not guaranteed. Think I might lookout for another second-hand one, good job I have a couple of machines – the other one is doing overtime at the mo!
Peter 😉
Re: AEG oko lavamat 74640 update. Error code E34.
Hi Ewan, I’ve been getting similar errors (see other posts on here). I took my main circuit board out the other day and the board was part burnt out, one resister all black. I cleaned up and put back in, still no good.
Someone on ebay is offering to refurb them, the pic they have of an old board is virtually identical to mine, blown in just the same place! They are towards £50 to fix them, the only thing I don’t know is whether the board has burnt out because of another reason ..
Take a look at yours, on rhs just under top cover, take a pic to remember where leads go and then take out of plastic case. Power off first of course!!
Let me know how you get on.
Peter
Re: AEG Lavamat (Zanussi) – E34 & E52 Errors
Hi, I’ve taken the main circuit board out of the machine, one of the resisters was really black, there was soot on both sides of the card. I cleaned it up, re-soldered some joints but still the same problems – well, a consistent E52 error now.
My question is – will a new card fix this, or has something else caused the card to blow?
Re: AEG Lavamat (Zanussi) – E34 & E52 Errors
No the element out of the w/m …!! I tested a spare oven element I had to see what ohm reading I got as a comparison. BTW, I’ve just knocked some more scale off the element and its now reading more like 41M Ohms, cold, taken out of the machine.
What reading would you expect?
Cheers, Martin – Peter
Re: AEG Lavamat (Zanussi) – E34 & E52 Errors
Sorry, just to add, this is disconnected & cold at 500V
Re: AEG Lavamat (Zanussi) – E34 & E52 Errors
22 M Ohms (Not G) … perhaps not too good?? My new oven element is well into the G Ohms.
Any thoughts? Cheers, P
Re: AEG Lavamat (Zanussi) – E34 & E52 Errors
Hmmm, thanks – I was wondering if that could be the culprit .. The water is getting quite hot, do these have a tendency to cause a problem as they get hot? I’ll have to try and borrow an insulation tester as I haven’t got one myself.
The only thing that put me off simply replacing it was the fact that when I tried a simple rinse & spin, the machine was stopping immediately – presumably before the coil would try to heat any water.
Re: AEG 74640 Lavamat – failing at start of program
It’s funny .. I fiddled with holding the door shut this am, it worked, then it stopped again .. I looked thru some prev. posts and someone suggested pressing some buttons to reset/diagnostics (which after Penguin warned against, I saw that after ..!). Anyway, after numerous LED’s flashing, it worked again for a full wash and various test spins. BUT, now it’s doing it again!
I’ve also checked the pipes to the pressure vessels – all clear.
Any ideas PLEASE!
Ta, Peter
Re: AEG lavamat 74640
Cheers Penguin, it lined up OK. No I didn’t get a new tub seal (the old looked fine), held it in place with a bit of silicon. I greased all the tub bolts first and they went in a hell of a lot easier. It’s ran a load already and another on tonight.
Bought this machine knowing the bearings had gone for £25, its 5 yrs old (says 6 on the tub), so hopefully if the new ones hold for a bit it should give us good service for not much money. Realise now it’s a Zanussi (a bu**ar that, thought it was all German engineering ..), when you say they soup it up – what do they do exactly?? Strengthen it in places ..
BTW – the old bearings were Polish, our local bearing shop had never heard of them.
Thanks for all your help – again!
Peter
