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[combo52]

GE DW SPMs

Hi John, it has nothing to do with hate and I though my post was pretty positive, using these cheap to build motors did allow GE to sell lots of consumers on having DWs, but there is not one redeeming quality of the SPM compared to the newer ball-bearing PSC motor for use on GE DWs, except the ability to evaporate water under the DW from leaks from GEs crappy leaky trip shaft seals.

 

In the nearly 20 years the newer PSC motors have been used in GE DWs our firm has seen one bad capacitor and one motor with a slightly noisy bearing, when I compare that with literately hundreds of SPMs on GE DWs that had loose fans, bad bearings, and open motor winding's I simply cannot say these SPMs were more durable.

 

[brucelucenta]

I remember that my folks had a GE 1200 dishwasher in their house from the early 80's till I bought them a new Bosch in the late 90's. The GE still worked reasonably well and I gave it to someone who used it longer. I personally have just never thought GE dishwashers were all that terrific. The ones I have used didn't clean all that well or really scrub the pots and pans well and sometimes left little particles inside and on top of the glasses. I had much better luck with Maytag built dishwashers than most other ones including Kitchenaid. Just never thought much of GE dishwashers or washers and dryers. Adequate at best and cheap, since builder models of GE appliances seemed to be in most homes built from the 50's on. I have always considered them to be basic machines, if you could afford nothing better.

 

[Chetlaham]

Better MORE durable motor

Well, if I may... I think this might be a bad taste from the early 90s up to the 2000s still lingering. In the 80s when GE's DW division peaked in every way possible, the shaded pole motors did not fail more than any other DW motor, in fact Id argue the least outside of KA. I have seen hundreds, if not thousands of mid 80s pot-scrubbers chucked out with the motors running and looking like they are mint. Also, the leaks you bring up were very, very common to the mids 90s-2000s GEs (hundreds had to be scrapped after only 8 years of use where I live, and most of that era always have crusty drain solenoid brackets), but rare on the 80s versions.

It was not so much the design, but run away cheapening and crap CC in the 90s that gave GE so many bad raps.