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Re: Indesit WE16 – F01 blues
Faulty again today.
Washes with a smaller load seemed to work ok but larger loads produced the F01 fault.
Removed the motor checked resistance of armature coils. One was open circuit.
Replacement motor is needed.
Re: Indesit WE16 – F01 blues
We had this F01 error code on our Indesit WIXEE127.
Removed the water pump filter, cleaned it, put it back. Found no obvious problems.
The Indesit website says the Triac on the control board, that’s the one at the rear lower left hand side of the machine in a white plastic case. Removed that board after unplugging all the connecting plugs (a camera’s helpful to make it easy to put them back)cleaned the board with meths and kitchen paper.Saw no obvious problems such as burning or cracks or damaged components. Put it back.
Removed the belt and motor. Removed the brushes and holders and made sure there was plenty of length left on the brushes as they were a set replaced twelve months earlier. Cleaned the motor commutator with a vacuum and a scrubbed it with a toothbrush to make sure there wasn’t carbon between the copper segments, shorting them out. Replaced the motor.
Put it back together and it works alright as usual.
We were dismayed when after fifteen months from new the drum bearings packed in and we found they couldn’t be repaired as the plastic outer drum is welded together. An expensive repair as the entire drum had to be replaced. Not very environmentally friendly either.
That aside the machine is now five years old and washes clothes well with lots of programmes. Is the computerised fault display any help? It doesn’t seem like it.
