[Willholmania]

Re: Hotpoint WMA34 heating element location

Thanks.

[Willholmania]

Re: Hotpoint WMA34 heating element location

Is there any way of testing it?

[Willholmania]

Re: Hotpoint WMA34 heating element location

My wife reckons it hasn’t been heating the water for a while. So although I’ve stopped it tripping the RCD it still isn’t heating the water. And as it has a new element, that means something else is stopping it kicking in. It just washes everything cold.

What else could prevent the element from energising? Is it likely to be a board problem? I guess there’s a relay on there that controls it?

[Willholmania]

Re: Hotpoint WMA34 heating element location

I tested the old element with a multimeter but have no means of placing it under any load. It tested fine at low voltage. I had a look at the wires near the concrete weight, having read about chaffing problems with them on this forum, but they all looked fine.

[Willholmania]

Hotpoint WMA34 doesn’t heat water after new element

Thanks to Dave for telling me where to access the heating element on this machine. I replaced the heating element with a genuine part after the machine started tripping the RCD in my junction box. It no longer trips the RCD but neither does it heat the water. Any ideas as to why this might be? All the wires are connected correctly – I took a picture of them before I took the old element out.

[Willholmania]

Re: Hotpoint WMA34 heating element location

Thanks Dave.

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