SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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This morning my wife informed me that our washing machine had stopped working. I told her I would take a look at it.
Now I have never worked on a washing machine but hey, how hard could it be?
It took me about ten minutes to figure out how to get to the controls. Now I was confronted by a Mass of wiring as well as two rotary switches. The only good thing was they had included the wiring diagram in there.
I spent the next several hours in the shed trouble shooting and checking the Rotary switches. They were both good. Now I started on the wiring harness. I finally found the problem after more than three hours in the 6ftx6ftx5ft shed.
It turned out to be what's called a Lid Switch. (This is the switch that shuts down the motor when you open the door.) Now I could cross wire this so it thnks the door is always shut but I prefer to just replace the switch. (It's safer for my wife that way.)
The only bad part about this whole thing is the shed sits behind the trailer and is always in the sun. The outside temp was about 83 degrees but inside the shed it was reading almost 100 degrees.
Cat
Now I have never worked on a washing machine but hey, how hard could it be?
It took me about ten minutes to figure out how to get to the controls. Now I was confronted by a Mass of wiring as well as two rotary switches. The only good thing was they had included the wiring diagram in there.
I spent the next several hours in the shed trouble shooting and checking the Rotary switches. They were both good. Now I started on the wiring harness. I finally found the problem after more than three hours in the 6ftx6ftx5ft shed.
It turned out to be what's called a Lid Switch. (This is the switch that shuts down the motor when you open the door.) Now I could cross wire this so it thnks the door is always shut but I prefer to just replace the switch. (It's safer for my wife that way.)
The only bad part about this whole thing is the shed sits behind the trailer and is always in the sun. The outside temp was about 83 degrees but inside the shed it was reading almost 100 degrees.
Cat
