Well, there's good news and there's bad:
Big Boy Problems
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The good news is that the blower is working just fine. It was packed, and I mean packed with enough lint to make a three-piece suit. The lint filter well, on the lower right in the picture beneath the electronic sensor was also overflowing with lint. I should have taken a picture of the "before" scene, but I was too lazy to find my camera. What you're seeing is everything all vacuumed and wiped clean.
Here's the bad news:
Here's the bad news:
The leads and ground wire to the electronic sensor in the door have been snipped (by some a**hole who thought it would be a good idea to cut the wires so close to the feed through the hinge that I can't get at them without taking the whole door assembly off, first disconnecting all the leads to the thermosensors in the door, the light switch and the light).
I know that the dryer works without these leads connected, but with the little knowlege I have of these automatic cycles, I must assume that none of them will work, including the SANITIZE cycle, without the electronic sensor connected to report to the timer mechanism that some of the clothes are still wet. I'm debating whether to just put this thing back together and deal with the wiring later, or to do it now. Problem is, I'm wondering why those wires were cut in the first place. Possibly there was something wrong with the electronic sensor, and some repairman offered the customer the choice of whether to spend a lot of money to replace the whole kit and kaboodle, or to take the cheap way out, disable it and allow the customer to just use the timed cycle. I know what my parents would have done. Oy.
turquoisedude
Well-known member
Take heart...
At least you have the original wiring diagram!!
At least you have the original wiring diagram!!
redcarpetdrew
Well-known member
It's easy enough to check the continuity from each side of the sensor pad to the wires to see if both sides of the circuit are good... It's likely that someone wanted to pull the door and didn't know how...
RCD
RCD
Not that easy
Disassembly of the door is a little complicated. I was able to take apart the hinges well enough to remove the door and feed out some of the cut wires to splice them. Now, unfortunately, it looks like either the timer advance motor, the sensor pad or the circuit board that governs the electronic sensor is not working. The dryer went for two hours on its maiden voyage--set on "NORMAL SANITIZE" far past dry.
At least I know the dryer works, heats up etc. And then right after I started him up, there was one last wad of lint on the other side of the blower blocking air flow. The blower may be standard size, but when it's not clogged with lint it works pretty well. Big design flaw of this unit is the inability to remove the lint filter to be able to vacuum out the lint well.
But I'll say one thing for Big Boy, when he's put together and level he's extremely quiet.
He's doing another load right now, set on NORMAL. We'll see how this one goes. By my clock, he should be done in 15 minutes.
Disassembly of the door is a little complicated. I was able to take apart the hinges well enough to remove the door and feed out some of the cut wires to splice them. Now, unfortunately, it looks like either the timer advance motor, the sensor pad or the circuit board that governs the electronic sensor is not working. The dryer went for two hours on its maiden voyage--set on "NORMAL SANITIZE" far past dry.
At least I know the dryer works, heats up etc. And then right after I started him up, there was one last wad of lint on the other side of the blower blocking air flow. The blower may be standard size, but when it's not clogged with lint it works pretty well. Big design flaw of this unit is the inability to remove the lint filter to be able to vacuum out the lint well.
But I'll say one thing for Big Boy, when he's put together and level he's extremely quiet.
He's doing another load right now, set on NORMAL. We'll see how this one goes. By my clock, he should be done in 15 minutes.
Don'tcha just love how the factory used yellow wiring for almost everything--no color coding. You have to make your own little labels.
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