[Richardhw1]

Well Dave, thank you for your help, the washer is working again, as you said, the pipe had a hole in it which I missed . Price of the offending part ? £1.99 delivered. price of parts now in stock for not being thorough enough ? around £110 .
Lesson learned mate !!

The wonderful irony of this is that I come across similar situations in my own line of work where people just guess and I find some amusement in that !
Thanks again your patience is very much appreciated.

[Richardhw1]

Thanks, ok I will replace it just in case.
but would that impact the fact that water is not going to the main wash part of the drawer ?

[Richardhw1]

Yes, had it completely off, also blown down and its clear and it holds vacuum when I suck it.
I haven’t physically removed the pressure chamber but would expect that something would show just by doing that.

[Richardhw1]

Well this isn’t going to plan. I swapped the PCB for the replacement taking into account what you said Dave thank you. the PNC number is clearly shown on the part, or at least a PNC number is on there, the replacement part had identical numbers except for the date, which for the purpose of clarity ( the photo I have is too big and im a dinosaur as far as resizing it goes)
PNC (ELC) 914906217(02)
MCF 192873391.001
CCF 132729702.030
Firmware WPA30102
Date 12-08-03 (replacement is 12-05-28)
User sysloc on PS80

However the machine is doing exactly the same thing, so either this part has the same problem which I think unlikely.
The only other part left I believe is the control panel.

Before I use anger managment on the machine and render it inoperative, which component gives the signal to the water inlet solenoids to get them to open ?
I would have expected it to be the PCB.
I can see that the water level should be controlled by the pressure switch all be it indirectly and I may have a defective replacement part there but it still doesn’t explain why the water is not coming in to the drawer by the main water path.

Does the control panel activate the water valves ? or an I missing something completely ?

Maybe I should just call an engineer ( I hate being beaten, it’s only a washer !!!!)

[Richardhw1]

Ok, the PNC number is listed on the PCB housing on my machine, anyway, its worth a try.
Cheers

[Richardhw1]

That I don’t know, I’ll find out when it arrives !!

[Richardhw1]

Thanks Dave , I take your point, the part I found is a matching numbers one.
cheers.

[Richardhw1]

Cheers, all the wiring looks fine, the pressure switch was listed as that model but is slightly different although the plugs fit so I wasn’t too concerned about that. As you say not much left and I have located a board at a reasonable price, worth a go before I order a new machine !!

[Richardhw1]

The water stops if I cancel the program.

[Richardhw1]

No, both valves are not, only the one that goes to the conditioner side of the draw, I can see the water flow through the top of the drawer lid, I changed the valves because of this which I thought would be the initial problem, so it seems to me that there isn’t just one issue.

[Richardhw1]

I couldn’t detect any damage to the hose or the pressure chamber although I wasn’t able to remove the chamber at this time.
I can understand the water level being determined by the pressure switch but that wouldn’t explain why the water was only entering by the softener part of the drawer and not by the detergent side as well, I’m obviously not an engineer but that bit doesn’t seem to have a connection to the pressure switch unless of course there is some interaction that I haven’t considered.

[Richardhw1]

Hi Dave, its certainly not blocked but no I haven’t checked that I will do that next, thank you.

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