Posted: Sun Apr 10th, 2005 06:49 pm

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ScottyBeamMeUp Lurking at the Threshold   Joined:  Location:    Posts:  Flavorite Brew:  Status:  Offline

Hello Samurai Readers, My 3 year old Maytag Dryer had a sudden death (DOA) after power was restored from a neighborhood blackout.  I had Maytag's national service come to my house for repairs.  The service representative determined the dryer was beyond economical repairs since the labor and material to restore the dryer would be replacement cost .  In this case the damages were to the electronic printed circuit board (its components melted down), burnt wiring harness and melted LED/touch onsole panel. By the way my garage still has this lingering burnt carbon smell from this meltdown. Maytag states "abnormal operating voltages" are not covered under their warranty.  They do not mentioned anywhere the need of a power line surge protector with the use of this appliance.  Their design did not have built in circuit protection even so the power is always on to a certain extent when the appliance is off.  It depended on the house circuit breaker to trip but in my case it was a slow meltdown until the house breaker eventually tripped.  Another reason to never run this kind of appliance unattended! I did see another article on this site mentioning how unreliable these newer electronically controlled appliances are compared to the old fashion electrical/mechanical timer models.  Even a friend of mine that works for Sears appliance repair prefers the older models as far as lower cost long term  maintenance over the newer models. From my incident, both Maytag and the local power company did not take any responsibility for the melt down/electrical fire damage to the dryer.  Fortunately my home didn't burn down as an indirect result of this catastrophic failure. Does anyone have a schematic to the LED/touch console panel? Lesson learned: newer and more expensive products are not always better in this case.  User and buyer be aware!  Can we count on dependability or reliability? Thank all of you for your sympathy, Scotty   Attachment: Melt Down.jpg (Downloaded 27 times) Last edited on Sun Apr 10th, 2005 06:50 pm by

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Posted: Mon Apr 11th, 2005 11:03 am

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ScottyBeamMeUp Lurking at the Threshold   Joined:  Location:    Posts:  Flavorite Brew:  Status:  Offline

Dear Moostafa and Samurai Readers: Thanks for your efforts on the schematic diagram (which I already have) with the exception of the detailed Light Emitting Diodes/touch membrane switch of the console. I've already contacted Maytag Corp. and the utility (Southern California Edison) both parties essentially walked away from this with denials of responsibility.  The federal government can investigate this if enough cases are presented to them that proves out if errors/omissions to the design of the product to be a fire hazard. As you can see no circuit protection to the electronics is evident.  Only overload protection to the motor. I have asked Maytag about Underwriters Laboratory (U.L.) testing and they say this product had passed its normal tests.  But they wouldn't give specifics on the limitations on the products ability to withstand power line surges, brownouts, & etc. Interesting fact, my PC that was protected by a surge protector did not suffer any damage from the power blackout/restoration. Sincerely, Scotty

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Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2005 03:08 am

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ScottyBeamMeUp Lurking at the Threshold   Joined:  Location:    Posts:  Flavorite Brew:  Status:  Offline	To all you Samurai Contributors: I must hand it to all you guys in contributing to this forum .  Lessons learned and preventative measures are the way to go to minimize or eliminate potential lost(s) will bring peace of mind. I want to express my appreciation for all the great responses in this forum. Sincerely, Scotty  All you guys are super warriors!
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