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.

 

[qsd-dan]

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.

This picture is the only experience I have ever known. Grew up with a Maytag A490 that used a Kingston timer. My HA806 washers uses a Kingston timer. These are tried and true proven tech with solid reliability, it's not waxing nostalgia or survivors basis (as the youngin's today say).

 

[qsd-dan]

The thing is, I thought appliances would just keep getting better and better.

That's what most of us thought. Some of us picked up on the lie early on, most bought the lie and paid for it...usually by throwing away or leaving behind a perfectly working appliance with much regret later on.

 

[Chetlaham]

This picture is the only experience I have ever known. Grew up with a Maytag A490 that used a Kingston timer. My HA806 washers uses a Kingston timer. These are tried and true proven tech with solid reliability, it's not waxing nostalgia or survivors basis (as the youngin's today say).

It is a timed tested time approved success. Your inference is based on evidence based reasoning. Rooted in fact, not fantasy.

I know there are those who will knock on a Kingston timer in favor of Mallory, Singer, RSPC, Eaton, Invensys, ect however any Kingston timer is superior to modern electronic circuit boards.

 

[Chetlaham]

That's what most of us thought. Some of us picked up on the lie early on, most bought the lie and paid for it...usually by throwing away or leaving behind a perfectly working appliance with much regret later on.

I did the same. I left behind a perfectly good Whirlpool Power Clean Filter Module. I've left behind direct drive Kenmores, various fridges, GE stoves, given away blenders and toasters, ect.

I was dumb thinking buying new was an improvement. Now I know that I was wrong. If only I could have known back then what I know now.

 

[qsd-dan]

It is a timed tested time approved success. Your inference is based on evidence based reasoning. Rooted in fact, not fantasy.

I know there are those who will knock on a Kingston timer in favor of Mallory, Singer, RSPC, Eaton, ect however any Kingston timer is superior to modern electronic circuit boards.

Mallory timers are kind of superior but not without fault. A Kingston timer will run at least 25 years of very hard use before it needs a timer motor, which was cheap and easy to replace. I have a very, very low cabin use only 1967 Maytag A806 washer I saved from the crusher with a Mallory timer that seized up and wouldn't advance on the 3rd load because the grease inside the timer motor hardened. Had to fully disassemble, clean, and re-grease the entire unit.

16 Years ago, I was chatting with an employee of an appliance parts outfit who had being doing that job since 1975. He said Kingston had better contacts, Mallory had better gearing. The Kingston timer in my HA806 is original and 50 years old as of last September. I did change out the timer more for a 90 second one a couple of years back vs the original 60 second. Other than that, all original and untouched.