[Saul]

Re: Zanussi washer-dryer turns off mid-program

It seems to potentially do it whatever program is selected.
I initially put a load on a full wash/dry cycle and when I returned to the machine after a few minutes it was sat waiting again at the beginning of the wash cycle (with the full prog time displayed and the start light flashing and a drum full of wet, dirty clothes).
Since then I have attempted some shorter programs in order to investigate (e.g. drain, spin, dry etc) and it seems to make no difference at all what the machine is actually trying to do. Sometimes just a few seconds or minutes into the prog it stops and everything goes blank. Sometimes it takes a little longer. A common occurance (particularly with the shorter progs) is that it counts down the time remaining to 1 and then just when I expect it to go to zero (prog end) it stops and everything goes blank.
Out of about 10 or 15 attempts it has only successfully made it to the end of a program (time flashing 0 and ‘end’ light on) once.

Once it has gone blank it sometimes recovers after a few seconds/minutes, with the display returning back to the start of the selected prog, or it sometimes requires the knob turning back to off and waiting a long while before there is any life on selecting a prog. The door seems to remain locked until “recovery”.

Is there some sort of emergency cut-out mechanism in existence that causes a total shut-down (as described) that may be at fault in my machine, or has it simply lost its mind (PCB fault)?

Many thanks for replying.

Cheers,
Saul.

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