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Tridewebsr
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Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2007 19:59 |
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| One note of procedure, you should never blow directly into a pressure switch, the moisture in your breath will shorten the life of the switch.
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Rickb
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Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2007 21:21 |
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Thanks for the replies and followup. I have a pressure switch on order as of yesterday.
Ringing it out more, I have an empty and low set of contacts made at the same time.
Is the pickup actually tube isolated from the drain water?
I blew into it too (nothing to lose) and thought it was directly connected to water level.
Rick
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Pegi
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Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2007 21:29 |
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| No water should be in a fill level switch hose, just air pressure, this is what tells the fill level switch how high the level water is..
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Budget Appliance Repair
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Posted: Fri Aug 17th, 2007 12:01 |
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Tridewebsr wrote:
One note of procedure, you should never blow directly into a pressure switch, the moisture in your breath will shorten the life of the switch.
You just what makes you believe this little tidbit of BS????
What do you think makes the pressure in that hose to turn that switch off when the machine is filling? YES, that's right, usually hot steaming water!!!!!
Second point, if the moisture from your breath can get to the contact points in a pressure switch then there is something wrong with that there switch........ (The air inlet hose side is sealed with the diaphram belows from the switch contact side).
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Figgzitt
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Posted: Sun Mar 9th, 2008 05:48 |
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I have suffered through the same F21 problem. Through other forums I eventually learned that taking the bottom front panel off, opening the pump, and cleaning out the filter was a good start. We pulled out: About 4 coins, an earing, a coffee stir stick, a hair band, some rocks, and a bunch of black goop! A good start but that didn't do the trick. While having this garbage in the filter certainly didn't help things, removing it didn't fix the problem. The pump had no problem pushing water out at a high flow but it simply wouldn't shut off (until about 4 minutes later and the F21 error lights came on). So I thought there must be something else in there. I pulled the entire black rubber boot system off of the pump and bottom of the tub. It had a film of black goop in it but no major obstructions. I put it back together and the same problem presisted. I would manually put about a gallon of water in the tub and run the drain/spin cycle. It would put the water out with no problem again but wouldn't stop until 4 minutes later ...then F21. So I then proceeded to pull the drain line out ... figuring it might be slighly obstructed....but it was fine. Then I found this forum and read about the pressure switch. Ah ha! I pulled the top panel off of the washer ... pulled the wiring harness off the pressure switch...pulled the air hose off... and removed it. I simply gave it a little puff of air and each time I blew you could hear the mechanism click...so the mechanics were working. I reinserted it. I then blew on the air line (running to the rubber boot at the bottom of the tub)...no obstruction. I reattached the air line to the pressure switch and reattached the wiring harness. Then ........It worked! In the end I don't know why .... perhaps all the crap in the pump filter and boot caused excessive sudsing which plugged the air line? Whatever it was seems to be gone. As I type this the washer has almost gone through an entire rinse and spin cycle. If nothing else at least the entire pump and boot sytem is well cleaned of the black goop that was probably the cause of making everything stinky.
Thanks everyone on this forum ... you helped me save both my sanity and some money.......
Last edited on Sun Mar 9th, 2008 05:51 by Figgzitt
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Pegi
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 18:18 |
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| To really wrap this up, Tim is correct in it being a faulty pressure switch....since this post I did learn from a tech forum if these washers will just go into drain, and drain only, unplug the wiring harness from the pressure switch, if the washer will then start filling with water you know to replace the pressure switch, seems they get stuck on "flood mode" so the washer thinks it is full of water....and we know it will then default to drain only to keep the washer from overflowing....
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mark mac
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 22:02 |
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| HAD this problem before,it's the pressure switch machine thinks it flooded that's why pump comes on REPLACE pressure switch
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