Beko Problem! Help!

[ariston4life]

well, rember my last post about the beko and i mentioned the motor didn't sound to healthy. well last week i noticed that the motor had become louder and the wash action had become lazier, tonight it was doing a spin and it was making a lot of clicking sounds so i looked under the machine and my suspicions were confirmed there was sparks coming of the motor! my question is why is this happening and will beko fix it for free or what. cause i'm just about to give up on this machine, roll on next year so we can get our lovely new hotpoint.

 

[hotpoint9534]

Sounds like a classic case of worn brushes to me. If it's not the brushes then it's probably something much more serious such as the armature.

Hope that helps,
Tom.

 

[hotpoint9534]

I forgot to mention, I would strongly advise not to use the machine whilst it is doing this, eventually it will short circuit and cook the electronics.

 

[ariston4life]

thanks, yeh i was thinking it was the brushes, but its not even a year old yet and the brushes are gone, piece of crap LOL. yeh i've stoped using it, as soon as i noticed the sparks coming out of it i said thats it can't use that for a while, beko are coming out soon to take a look at it. thanks for the help.

 

[ariston4life]

well, the repair man came yesteday and ran the diagonstic mode on the machine to see if i would report a fault but it didn't anyways he took one of the brushes out a shaved a little off the top of it, and the machine is still acting a bit freaky the noise of it on spin is unbearable and the sparking of the motor hasn't stopped its gotten worse and the cloths are not getting spun properly either. does anyone know what could be wrong with it?

 

[hotpoint9534]

Surely the repair man should know what's wrong with it?
Any engineer should have a basic knowledge of how motors work. It seems a bit pointless that you've been left with the problem even after a visit from the repair man. Maybe Beko engineers don't know anything!

Tom.

 

[ariston4life]

Tell me about it, ill do a video of it in action soon and put it on youtube with an older video before the motor started playing up and you'll hear the difference.

 

[ariston4life]

another repair man is coming out on monday to install a new motor on the beko as it getting worse, on the upside i found out about the diagnostic mode which when set to spin it jumps straight up to 1000rpm without like an induction motor machine so if im ever having trouble getting it to balance a load i can set it to this spin and it wil spin straight away without distributing which i think is much better than waiting for a half and hour just to get it to spin.

 

[ariston4life]

turs out it is a problem with the armature, he's ordering a new motor for it but it can take up to three weeks.