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Re: Hotpoint WD420 not starting
After reading another post about a common Ariston fault, I’ve just noticed that the main wash dial clicks all the way around in both directions, should it be able to do that?
Re: Hotpoint WD420 not starting
kaibart wrote:I would get rid of it normally either the door lock or the brushes cause this problem which you have checked,the only other thing for you to check is the motor wiring and the door lock wiring if these are fine you could well be looking at a pcb fault, also i can see the dryer worked now and again if there is a fault on the dryer that can cause the wash side not to work properley also. but if every light on the machine flashes this is a pcb fault.
Not every light flashes, you just get one single flash from the first four of five horizontal lights and all five vertical lights flash once when you press and hold the start button, then the final spin light illuminates on it’s own.
About 3 minutes after this, the door lock
comes on and starts to blink slowly.
If you press any of the vertical lights in, they blink about 5 times in rapid succession and then go out, but only if you press the switch, otherwise they only
once for one second when you hold the start button.Re: Hotpoint WD420 not starting
iadom wrote:TBH if a customer rang me and told me the machine had been tipped upside down I would sigh heavily and put the phone down. 🙁
AFAIK there are no surplus wiring plugs to the main pcb??
There’s one not connected on the harness at the top as well… It’s the harness that sits on the very top right.
Will take pics of both plugs and pcb once I have the camera working on the phone.
From memory the one not attached to the main pcb has four wires, two orange, two black. I know it’s not helpful without pics though.Re: Hotpoint WD420 not starting
What I’m getting now is just a slow blink of the door lock light. If I switch it on and then press ‘start/cancel’ and hols that for a second or two, all except the ‘dry’ light flash up once, then go out, then the ‘final spin’ light comes on, on its own.
If left, after about two to three minutes the door lock light starts to slowly flash whilst the ‘final spin’ light stays on.Re: Hotpoint WD420 not starting
Had both boards out today for a visual and nothing seems to be amiss, c17 isn’t domed and both boards look clean.
Don’t understand why tipping it up changed it from “wash” to “spin” on the dash lights though.
If I knew that, I might be halfway to diagnosing the fault. I hadn’t had the control panel off at this point either.
