Higher End Kenmore's/ Elite Washers

[Bryan71]

Looked at the higher end kenmores this past weekend. Where is the lid switch on these machines and are the easy to access to view the wash action?

 

[coldspot66]

If you are talking about top loading washers, the lid switches are now hidden according to a new UL mandate that all washers do not agitate or spin with the lid up. I think it took effect on july 2004.

 

[partscounterman]

Stinkin' UL

I mean, I can understand not spinning with the lid up, but what sort of moron would it take to get hurt by the agitator for goodness sakes!

My heart aches for all the little washerheads who will have to wait until they are old enough to rewire the washer to have any fun

 

[frigilux]

WHAT?!! Even KM/Whirlpool machines won't agitate with the lid up? Just another example of THE MAN spoiling all our fun! That settles it: I'm moving to....well, to a country which has the common decency to allow one to watch one's washer operate, unencumbered!

Signed,
Spittle Flying in Outrage

 

[Bryan71]

Thanks

I think it is only the Elite models that will not operate with the lid open. The standard Kenmore models still do I believe and still have the standard lid switch.

 

[frigilux]

Oh. Ok, I feel better, now.

 

[westytoploader]

I found that the "electronic" lidswitches pn high-end GE's, Kenmores, Whirlpools, Maytags, etc. can be defeated by putting a magnet over them. If it's hidden and mechanical, forget it. Rewiring is the only way to go, but even THAT gets difficult when there's more than 2 wires coming from and going to the switch!

 

[re563]

Sorry to break your bubbles so to speak, but I was doing an inspection today on a new construction house that had the BOL whirlpool installed, I turned it on and waited for it to start agaitating. I rasied the lid and the agitation stopped, so it must be for all top loading machines.

 

[gansky1]

On the Calypso washers, the control board would only run a new cycle when the lid switch had been opened and closed again. I suppose this was to prevent a new cycle from being started with clean clothes still in the machine, but it was not a simple snip & wirenut bypass of the lid switch. In the one I had, I installed a simple on-off switch on the back panel, when the cycle was finished you flipped the swtich to off and then back on again and it fooled the smarter than the average bear computer into thinking the lid was closed.

 

[david]

ewwwwww!

Hmmm. Cut off switches on washers during wash and rinse and spin. Maybe doing away with the spin brake on all of them now and winding up with an indexing tub.

 

[agiflow]

When was the last report anybody heard of an agitator taking off someones hand during agitation?That's probably why fl's have windows.....to wean us washer heads who like to see action in a tl move to a HE fl.....clever very clever.

 

[brisnat81]

Its not about the agitator

Hi guys,

its more about the risk of scalding from hot water entering the machine.

All the Whirlpool's over here now dont operate with the lid up, at all. Most of our domestic machines are all the same and have been for quite some time.

 

[DADoES]

LOL, that's kinda funny, actually, what with all the EnergyStar top-loaders nowadays in the U.S. that have dumbed-down temps.