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Heat exchange valve open circuit?
But I’m not sure it detects it that early in the cycle – you normally get the outlet pump running for a few seconds at the start of the cycle.
It’s always trickier on non-display models as the tap symbol covers so many faults.
I’d definitely take the right hand side panel off and check for any sign of a leak onto the control module.Here we go again.
Lockdown 3.0
How are people finding things? Nov and Dec not too bad here with plenty of clients having cooker and over repairs done in the lead up to Christmas but now New Year is here (plus the lockdown) things are very quiet.
I can is this current lockdown lasting 3 months plus.
Take care,Steve.
Hope everyone is keeping safe and well.
Just to bring people’s attention to the second grant which available to self employed under the Government scheme…
Personally work is still pretty slow for me.
I notice on the Gov website that the HMRC have taken it upon themselves to significantly alter terms by which self employed will be allowed to claim the second grant which was technically set out by the Chancellor to cover loss of earnings thru June, July and August.
If you read the recently amended wording the HMRC are now saying that anyone claiming the second grant must have had their business significantly impacted by Covid-19 on or after July 14th.
Whilst I am happy that I would still firmly fall in that category, I feel that HMRC have absolutely no legal basis to demand that any self employed person be able to meet their amended criteria.In the first instance the second grant was set out as covering the months of June, July and August in terms of lost income and simply took up the slack from the moment when the first grant period expired (which was technically the close of business on the first Friday in June.)
Secondly, it looks like a highly opportunistic move by HMRC to hoodwink less well informed individuals in to believing that they may not be entitled to the grant which they were previously promised by the Chancellor in his highly publicised TV address. Furthermore, there will be many self employed individuals who have recently been allowed to restart their business operations due to the lifting of long term lock-down restrictions (ie hairdressers / barbers / non essential retail etc) who will very likely experience an initial surge in demand but who have already suffered financially because they have been locked down since March. The date of July 14th has not been chosen by accident as this date appears to have been selected because HMRC would be aware that it falls firmly in the immediate period of time after a great many self employed would be attempting to restart businesses – in other words, HMRC have deliberately chosen a ‘hot spot’ which they know many cannot deny would be busy.
It’s also the case that many people would have been following the rules in the genuine belief that they were being supported by the grant scheme – to have the rules changed retrospectively is extremely cruel.
In my opinion this needs to be investigated immediately before this HMRC mis-information becomes widespread.
Heads up on the Government scheme for self employed…
You can now go onto the HMRC website and check whether you are eligible for the self employed grant which was announced back in March.
You also need to register for the Government Gateway scheme if you intend to claim.
I’ve been through the process and it seems straightforward but you will need some key pieces of information like Tax Ref Number / NI Number plus a form of formal ID (I had no problem using my passport.)
You cannot claim your grant until 8am on 16th May 2020.
However, it seems to me like basic common sense for us all to be registered on the system ahead of the date when the grant can be claimed simply because their website could be under considerable load once the grants go live. It should make claiming the grant much easier than having to register your details and establishing your formal ID etc on the actual day.
More info here;
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/s…vid-19-support
Start the process here;https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/self-…ayer-reference
Hope this helps everyone.Funny how this hasn’t received much publicity!
Stay safe,
Steve.Heads up on the Government scheme for self employed…
You can now go onto the HMRC website and check whether you are eligible for the self employed grant which was announced back in March.
You also need to register for the Government Gateway scheme if you intend to claim.
I’ve been through the process and it seems straightforward but you will need some key pieces of information like Tax Ref Number / NI Number plus a form of formal ID (I had no problem using my passport.)
You cannot claim your grant until 8am on 16th May 2020.
However, it seems to me like basic common sense for us all to be registered on the system ahead of the date when the grant can be claimed simply because their website could be under considerable load once the grants go live. It should make claiming the grant much easier than having to register your details and establishing your formal ID etc on the actual day.
More info here;
Start the process here;https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/self-employment-support/enter-unique-taxpayer-reference
Hope this helps everyone.Funny how this hasn’t received much publicity!
Stay safe,
Steve.stratfordgirl wrote:
A word of caution here. As long the wiring harness is not under strain and reliable crimps are used. I have seen one of these previously repaired (not by me) fail at the join between the wiring and the crimp connectors.
I agree 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}. Another critical aspect of the repair is to ensure that ALL the heat damaged wiring is cut away. It’s really important that this is done correctly as the insulation near the heat damaged connector becomes very hard and will break once the new crimps are attached. If the wires at the interlock are already short in length then it is sometime necessary to ease extra wire through, sometimes as far back as the PCB.
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, in my experience the problem is the wiring block into the interlock rather than the interlock itself. This has been going on for many years. Whenever I see heat damaged door wiring I explain the situation to the customer and then change the terminal block for individual spade connectors along with a new interlock. I can honestly say that I’ve never had the same problem on a machine where I have carried out this modification.
Very few calls this week. Hardly worth it but I have a large client base of regular clients.
There’s going to be an announcement from the Government this afternoon regarding support for the self employed although I doubt that they will consider the ongoing costs of overheads in their calculations.
Updated Government advice issued overnight… this would apply to us;
“Work carried out in people’s homes, for example by tradespeople carrying out repairs and maintenance, can continue, provided that the tradesperson is well and has no symptoms. Again, it will be important to ensure that Public Health England guidelines, including maintaining a two metre distance from any household occupants, are followed to ensure everyone’s safety.
No work should be carried out in any household which is isolating or where an individual is being shielded, unless it is to remedy a direct risk to the safety of the household, such as emergency plumbing or repairs, and where the tradesperson is willing to do so. In such cases, Public Health England can provide advice to tradespeople and households.
No work should be carried out by a tradesperson who has coronavirus symptoms, however mild.”
I’ve been doing this job for 30 years.
Have seen many burnt out door interlocks in that time which cover many makes and models.
I’d say with a high degree of certainty that Hotpoint / Indesit models are by far the worst.
The weakness is not the interlock – the weakness is a combination of the wiring loom and the inadequate current rating of the door interlock terminal block.
In my opinion there is a large random element on why the terminal block fails – for example; badly assembled from the outset leading to a poor connection and thus heat, a customer who uses more high temperature washes than average and thus draws more current through the door lock and variations in the length of the loom which causes the spare length of wire to vibrate far more than others.
The failure is essentially a ‘decay cycle’ – meaning that the problem starts off as a small amount of excessive heat due to the current being drawn through the door look and associated wiring loom. This heat starts to alter the characteristics of the two brown wires in the loom in two ways – firstly it lessens the current carrying capacity of the mental conductor within the loom – secondly it hardens the plastic sheathing which covers the conductor. This in turn leads to more heat build up (in terms of the conductor) and a burning of the sheathing. The sheathing then cracks meaning that the conductor is all that is keeping the loom attached to the interlock.
I’ve always solved the problem by crimping new spade connectors to the loom and fitting a new interlock. I’ve never been called back for a repeat failure where that modification was made. Critical with this modification is to ensure that you trim the loom back to completely undamaged cable – the conductor should be shiny copper in colour and the sheathing should be soft in nature. Sometimes it’s necessary to ease the loom up from the control board to gain the require extra length of wiring.
Bottom line (in my opinion) is that we’ve got nothing to worry about in terms of repairs which have been already carried out where the terminal block has been removed and replaced with individual spades along with the new interlock.Had a couple of these and on each occasion it’s been the joint between the wiring (to the door lock) and the PCB. To test my theory I stripped the PCB assembly and hard-wired the door lock – machine then worked perfectly.
Don’t suppose anyone has a service manual in PDF for one of these?
Cheers in advance.
