KitchenAid DW (by WP) KUDM01TJWH0

[coldspot66]

Hi Steve,

A wax motor behaves much like a solenoid...uses current to provide motion. Current warms the wax inside, and it expands to move a plunger. The biggest advantage to wax motors is they are noiseless, but slow...no mechanical "snap" ..much like your GE d/w drain valve. Hope this helps!

 

[toggleswitch]

Thanks! Live and learn.

 

[gansky1]

I'm sure this wax motor on this vent is fuse protected, the one on my original Asko dishwasher wasn't and when it went bad, it took the control board with it. A similar thing happened with the first-series Maytag Neptune washers and the door-lock mechanism.

WP is using wax motors all over the place - they also are (or were at last check) used to control the valve that runs the Turbo-Zone wash system, diverting water flow from the upper wash arm to the nozzles.

 

[toggleswitch]

~I'm sure this wax motor on this vent is fuse protected, the one on my original Asko dishwasher wasn't and when it went bad, it took the control board with it.

GREG!
This perhaps explains the burnt orignal control board and the (subsequent)lack of venting! I'm thinking the fuse didn't go as fast as it should have, only to blow later.

 

[gadgetgary]

Wax Motor

Exactly what went wrong on my Neptune last fall.