Money for bad dishwasher board.

[phillymatt53]

This is on my local Craigs List.
Whirlpool notice will give you CASH for a bad board.

https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/ele/d/philadelphia-dishwasher-control-board/7903675522.html​

 

[cfz2882]

that must be the ones where the control board in the door was getting damp from steam and arc-faulting-resulting in smoke, sometimes fire.

 

[Marky_Mark]

I bought this Whirlpool Point Voyager for $20 just to play with it. I managed to record this video of it blowing its brains out and tripping the AFCI due to an arc fault (it did not trip due to overcurrent or ground fault). I threw it out but perhaps I could have kept it and got $100!

 

[cfz2882]

ohh... I recently grabbed a point voyager out of a junk heap as a repair prospect-i am going to look at that control board situation first thing...

 

[qsd-dan]

I managed to record this video of it blowing its brains out and tripping the AFCI due to an arc fault (it did not trip due to overcurrent or ground fault).

I'm waiting for mine to commit suicide but I never use heated dry so it'll probably hold on a bit longer.

 

[phillymatt53]

I bought this Whirlpool Point Voyager for $20 just to play with it. I managed to record this video of it blowing its brains out and tripping the AFCI due to an arc fault (it did not trip due to overcurrent or ground fault). I threw it out but perhaps I could have kept it and got $100!

"Hey honey!...... what's that smell?
"Nothing dear, just the dishwasher doing its thing again."

 

[Chetlaham]

A simple solution to Whirlpool's and customer's ills:





Spade connectors, chunky contacts and metal base. This picture isn't AI or a fantasy, this actually existed in one point and time and proved more successful than any modern control board.

 

[phillymatt53]

A simple solution to Whirlpool's and customer's ills:


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Spade connectors, chunky contacts and metal base. This picture isn't AI or a fantasy, this actually existed in one point and time and proved more successful than any modern control board.

A Song...

"Those were the days my friend, I thought they'd never end....."

 

[Chetlaham]

A Song...

"Those were the days my friend, I thought they'd never end....."

The thing is, I thought appliances would just keep getting better and better. They did in the 80s as that is when dishwasher longevity and performance peaked, and in various degrees in the late 90s. However, beyond that things just got worse. It never crossed my mind major appliances would simply vanish. Had I known I would have bought a dozen Power Cleans and a few direct drives and kept them in climate controlled storage.

Also not sure why John300m finds my post funny.




These old timers and their interfaces did not fail by routinely burning up, smoking, starting fires, triggering recalls and getting the code making panels to expand AFCI and GFCI protection to major appliances. Not counting all the premature failures and touch pads there wear through.

Electronics and undersized molex connectors just don't belong in the hot, moist, condensing environments of automatic dishwashers. Its just that simple.

 

[Chetlaham]

I bought this Whirlpool Point Voyager for $20 just to play with it. I managed to record this video of it blowing its brains out and tripping the AFCI due to an arc fault (it did not trip due to overcurrent or ground fault). I threw it out but perhaps I could have kept it and got $100!

Now you know why AFCI and GFCIs are expanding as they are. Home prices are literally going up because home owners and landlords now have to pay for the obscene cost cutting of appliances. Cheap appliances cost MORE not LESS.