Whirlpool dryer power dropping resistor

[combo52]

Clothes, dryer intake, air filters

Could be a good idea, of course the course filter like that. Doesn't even get 2% of the pollen going through it, but it would help keep the inside of the dryer from being excessively filled with Linton dust, especially when a dryer was not vented outdoors or poorly vented.

If you care about pollen getting onto your clean, damp clothing as they dry, you should have a very good high-efficiency air filter to completely clean the room. The dryer is located in. My laundry room is in an area of the house where the main furnace air handler runs 24 hours a day witha high efficiency pleated filter in an electric static filter after that it's also wonderful because when you're folding laundry and everything, there's an intake vent in the laundry room so dust just never accumulates it sucked up and filtered out.

The big problem with this filter that Maytag used as it should've been on the back of the machine where it might've had a chance of being seen cleaned occasionally.

The other problem is only about 70 or 80% of the air comes in through those vents in the back, the rest is drawn in around gaps all around the cabinet control panel, etc. like any other clothes dryer so it doesn't offer a full hundred percent filtration anyway.

John

 

[maytag85]

So here’s an update: finally managed to track down the problem. Turns out, silly me installed a fan thermostat which opens up and lets the current through as opposed to cutting power once the temperature is reached.

The timer advances like it’s supposed to but here’s on thing I noticed: the timer motor seems to constantly be getting power, but only speeds up a little once the thermostat opens, slows back down a little once the thermostat closes. On the cool-down portions, timed drying, air fluff the timer motor runs at the speed it did as if the double throw switch thermostat was installed.

Next, will install the 808 console (currently a 806 console on at the moment) tomorrow. Definitely will get things dried fairly quickly once the adjustable cycling thermostat is set to 165F.

 

[maytag85]

Welp, I spoke too soon. For whatever reason, the timer motor gets power regardless even with the power dropping resistor. Wired up everything correctly, still not working as intended. Either got a defective power dropping resist, or these older dryers were never intended to be used with a power dropping resistor.

 

[Chetlaham]

Post pics of what you tapped, the wiring back up to the timer (you need a dedicated conductor between the stat and resistor and timer motor, the timer assembly itself, and the wiring diagram to the dryer.

 

As I understand it, you took a basic DE308 model and added a DE808 console to it?