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Re: Whirlpool DWH B10 fault – 11 blinks – UPDATE
I fired up the dishwasher again today (sans rinse aid), only to have it start beeping at me again. My heart sank 🙁
This time, I had the light blinking two times, and having a look underneath through the front panel, I saw the base was full of water again.
Time to come clean: when I first got the machine, in need of a longer hose, and working at the suggestion of the guy in my local plumbing shop, I opened her up with the intention of replacing the hose at source.
It turned out that this was not possible for one reason or another, so I replaced the compression clip I’d had to remove to take the pipe off (I did this, of course, before I determined the replacement was a no go…), using a regular jubilee clip.
The long and the short of it was that I didn’t get a good seal, and it was the waste pipe leaking. I was very nervous that my warantee visit was going to turn expensive if this was discovered!
Anyway, I’ve since done a much more effective job of sealing the join with a third clip, and so far not a drip.
What a saga!
Edd.
Re: Whirlpool DWH B10 fault – 11 blinks
The Whirlpool repair guy has come and gone. What a nice man 😀
Anyway, it turns out that the problem was that there was water in the base, tripping the float switch (which apparently not all machines have, even though it has saved lots of water damage in this case). It turned out that there had been an overspill in the machine, simple as that.
(For one reason or another, I’d worried that it was the waste pipe leaking internally, but fortunately not so)
The guy had seen it all before, as I’m sure have many on here, but it seems that the root cause was using “three in one” tablets along with regular rinse aid. Too many bubbles == Overspill == Trip switch.
Well that’s a relief at least. Thanks again for all the comments and advice.
Edd.
Re: How much water is in my machine?
Problem solved. Was simply an overspill. More details in original thread.
Thanks for the advice, Jim.
ps. I checked the installation instructions again, and it actually requires that you tip it to one side at one point, so could have always claimed ignorance 🙂
Re: Whirlpool DWH B10 fault – 11 blinks
Thanks for the followups. I really appreciate the advice.
I’ve got a Whirlpool engineer coming out this week to fix me up (hopefully!)
As an aside, my waste hose comes up to nearly the height of the machine, then falls away at a constant gradient over a few metres (extended hose) to a one-way valve thing on the main waste pipe. It seems to drain fine with this setup.
Re: How much water is in my machine?
So… hypothetically, if the machine had already been tipped over, what is the sort of thing that might have died?
You realise, or course, that I’ve already tipped it over, but it has worked just fine several times since, only to start beeping last weekend.
The missus is getting unhappy at the manky dishes 🙂
Re: Whirlpool DWH B10 fault – 11 blinks
Hmmm. No success; I found the black grill but it was totally clean. The dishwasher has only been used in anger a few times, so I’m not surprised. I gave it a scrub with my toothbrush anyway, but to no avail.
Is there anything else worth trying before I have a look inside? And/or anything in particular that I should try to spot?
