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£12 from spares4homes on eBay for an 18 year old AEG white under counter double oven. So I can’t get too worked up and will keep it but there is a faint principle of did I get what I ordered….
I supposed I should query the seller though I suspect they will just say it’s fine…
Thanks for the thoughts.
AEG U3100-4-W 94417127
Sorry I became distracted by other things and drifted away there for a bit. Still I now have a £500 Polish Bosch fridge which I hope was not made to be discounted to suckers… Still hoping to reactivate and get more out of the Miele.
I did test the compressor wiring it directly as suggested. And it did work just fine. Obviously the fans did not come on in the fridge or anything but I ran it for half an hour and the fridge became cold that it must be ok.
So I’m looking at the PCB which is marked as a 6133 698-00 KSv3_04-1 It looks almost exactly like a 6133696 for Liebherr fridges. But with slightly different button/led positions which is annoying but bares out Tony saying they come from the same factory.
If anyone know a cheaper liebherr equivalent I would be very interested to know 🙂 The usual online parts sellers want about £130 a Miele part which seems a little high for a gamble.
Otherwise my plan is something like;
Give it a good hoover of the dead flies in the pcb put it back together and pray, you never know.
Call Miele on the off chance they would sell me another one, they did sell me a new door handle lever a year ago for £30 when online wanted £100 so there is a faint chance, suspect they will just say don’t touch.
Otherwise look into the online repair services that will repair PCB boards for about £50. Perhaps it just needs a new capacitor block or something…
Thank you, and any ideas on cheap pcb sources obviously welcome.
Thank you Tony. That is a helpful idea. Perhaps I have been thinking about it all wrong.
Now if it is the electronics above that are having trouble the presumably a should be able to start the relay/switch and compressor manually, bypassing the thermostat and demonstrate that they are still working and that it might worth repairing!
But how?
So on my relay/starter bit I have a terminals for live, neutral and earth plus two extra terminals on either side.The mains cable obviously goes to the live, neutral and earth.
The capacitor cable has a neutral and a live wire, neutral goes to the neutral terminal and the live goes to a separate pin on the side.
The thermostat cable, which presumably I wish to bypass, goes to live and neutral and then has a third black wire which goes to a separate pin on the side. This black wire presumably starts the compressor.
Does that make sense?
Now somehow I can presumably move the wires to trick the compressor to starting without the thermostat. But how?
Do you think just moving the mains live wire to where the thermostats black cable connects would do it?
I’m a little wary of accidentally short circuiting or frying something.
Thanks
What do people think of this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07JHMNHHF/3 in 1 fridge hard starter. I though it would bypass the thermostat and capacitor and give a basic proof of if the compressor could run.
Then I noticed it said 115v?
Still worth a try or pointless with uk voltage?
Thanks
Hmm, putting a multimeter in the two holes give a resistance of about 17 to 180 fluctuating madly. I’m not sure what that tells me, possibly that I have a cheap multimeter?
I was rather expecting a solid number between 10-100 or nothing.
Well slight progress. Got the starter relay thing out.
I checked Miele was bought in 2008 for £550 so 11 years old. Which doesn’t seem much for a smart fridge, grr, the frigidaire now taking all the strain is over 20 years old and still going. Of course thats the elite model.
Starter relay seems to be one of these
https://shop.electrolux.co.uk/p/2390286249available from lots of places under slightly different names.
Oddly many of them, such as this cheaper ebay one, appear to be reversed? I’m assuming they just flipped the image though it will be annoying if I’m wrong…
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153023230111
Must look at the internet instructions on how to test with a multimeter and see if I can work out which pins to test.
Whether the compressor getting luke warm means its not the relay starter bit? Whitegoods page on fridges seems to suggest I may be kidding myself. Of course could buy one and try quickly and then return it…
Dodgy hvy67aa compressor is available from german ebay sellers for £90 but I’m clearly not going to swap one myself and I suspect that rapidly becomes uneconomic.Hmm.
