Whirlpool commercial dryer....console change.Hi

[kenmoreguy89]

Hi everyone, I have recently bought this WP commercial gas dryer, it was very very cheap, I love older whirlpools like this with small doors, and it would match my BD whirlpool from 1989, it is an automatic pushbuttons dryer only...no timed cycle...
I do not really like the panel and the commercial kind buttons programmes....
Do you think it is an feasible and easy thing to put another consolle from another WP dryer?
I think my best bet would be importing one as gas dryers this old are kinda rare here.
I wonder if voltage difference may be a problem for the timer...it sure could be the hz difference when used on timed....it would advance slower but since the auto dry advance the timer at the sensors signals says laundry is more dry...hence hotter.. I think voltage is not a big issue....

 

[kenmoreguy89]

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[kenmoreguy89]

P.S

It is a gas dryer.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I did it for friends in Florida. John had the top and control panel which we sent down in the hold of their motor home when they were up here. I was going down in a couple of weeks so when I got down there, I changed it, easy peasy.

 

[combo52]

Changing a Control Console On A WP Gas Dryer

If you can grab all the parts from a another dryer of similar age it can be quit easy.

 

You asked about voltage and Hz etc, where are you and what voltage etc do you need and what voltage etc is this dryer ?

 

John L.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Thank you all.
I am in Italy.....
I am unsure about whirlpool dryers this old.
I still have to open and inspect it....as of now timer's 220 volt operating voltage is just an assumption.
My speed Queen gas dryer has a built-in transformer feedeing the coils sensors and switches and somehow timer too even though it is a push knob kind of start dryer.. it has this transformer block inside the panel...motor is 230 volts...but maybe whirlpool made things differently...for their 220 volt gas dryers.
What other parts do you think I would need other than the consolle and wires? Is it just a matter of connecting the wires harness in the connector? If compatible?
And where I could find one?
Could you eventually address me to a compatible panel?
Of course as soon as I get a chance I will post pics.
Thanks.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Ok......so I have the dryer.
It is a very weird model.
It has 3 temp settings you select...knits,perm press and high (cottons).
But it is timed!
It has a lever that you pull and it gives 45 mins, you pull twice 90 mins drying time.
After that you cannot erase you cannot go back....it just have to finish its cycle....
I do not know what controls I could put...
I hate this controls.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

The weird dryer

 

[kenmoreguy89]

I think it uses the same mechanics of the coin dryers, as you push money in it starts running the timer that feeds everything (45 or 90 mins) the thermostats only cycle the valve upon the heat setting you select...
Matter would be wiring motor and the cycle settings thermostats to a control that moves timer as thermostats cycle on and off....right?
Or I need extra thermostasts and stuff?