Re: Washing machine schematic, OT.

Patrick Turner wrote

How could the connections become incorrect?

If you'd read all the posts I made about the old machine,
you'd have seen how I admitted that after replacing faulty
timers without a schematic, I managed to get several wires
to wrong
connections.
This was very very easy to do, because the wires all have
individual
crimped slide on connections, not a multiposition plug.
So you pull one lug off an old terminal, and move it to
the same
position lug on the new timer box.
So a single mistake may not be noticed.
And the same mistake can be repeated, and another created
on the next
timer replacement.

The schematic for the machine should have been supplied
with the
machine,
or supplied by the parts supplier with the suply of a new
timer.
None of these wrong connections made unknowingly over the
last 10 years
seemed to have affected
the main heavy duty cycle I normally used.

Anyway, one connection came right off a lug last week,
giving
the same symptoms of a failing timer, ie, the machine
would fill, and
pump out,
but not wash or spin.
I replaced the timer, and the same symptoms occurred,
leading me to
think
that maybe the original timer was OK,
maybe the replacement is a dud,
maybe the motor or some other part
such as the motor micro switches had become faulty; ie,
open circuit
somewhere.
And maybe I had the wrong lugs pressed onto the wrong
terminals.

There is a thermal cut out to protect against excessive
mains current so
its impossible to burn
out the motor.

This kept tripping. I tried several terminals for the wire
that had
sprung off the
unknown terminal and no good results.

So maybe I needed a schematic, because working out what
wire was
supposed to go to what terminal
without knowing schematic of the complex sequenced
internal and
concealed timer switching,
working out what was switched to what and when would have
taken me ages.

The spare parts shop reluctantly gave me a copy of the
schematic and in 30 minutes I had all the wires properly
connected and
it actually
now washes better on the less used 'delicate' non standard
cycle.

It is probable that the timer I have replaced is quite OK,
and it worries me not that i now have a spare for use when
the present
replacement fails perhaps in 4 to 6 years time.
Then there may be no further support for timer repairs and
the machine
then becomes redundant.
But I think I hove a spare, and maybe I won't need to
dispatch the
machine to re-cyclers until I am 72,
at about the time when I myself may expire, and need
recycling by
conversion into
gasses uppa chimney, and a bowl of ashes for fertilizer,
ie, if the
Greenhouse Police
still permit cremations. No doubt there will soon be a
HUGE carbon tax
imposed upon
the living for a cremation, or claimable by a government
out of a
deceased estate.

People will begin secretly burrying their grandparents and
parents in
graves in the back yard late at night or underneath the
loungeroom to
avoid the taxes.

Much of what goes on amoung those living above their dead
relatives will
cause a noise
similar to a spinning washing machine, no doubt about
that!

It cost $8,000 to dispose of my sister's remains after she
died of
cancer.

I reckon it was an outrageous waste of money, but then she
spent
$10,000 on her marriage, and it lasted only 3 years.

If a bus runs over me while I'm out cycling,
I hope they have a nice big fire hose to wash my reamins
down a drain
somewhere.
Outa sight and outa mind, and the pong lasts no longer
than
the pongs when large kangaroos get mangled and left to rot
by the
roadside.

During my 107km ride today, I cycled past one 4km stretch
of road where
20 piles of bone lay at the road edge.

There is a real argy bargy going on amoung roo lovers and
roo cullers,
as to whether they should cull the excessive population of
roos.

But while they dither and ague, and carryon politically
posturing,
roos are dying in agony and ruining motor cars at alarming
rates.

I'd force all the roo lovers to ride the roads where I see
the carnage.

They'd want the fences all raised from 1M high to 2M, to
stop the roos
jumping over them.
Pollies and farmers would object because its all too
expensive.

But roos are clever, they find a way onto road spaces, and
once there
they are the dumbest
or poor brutes, and have no sense of road dangers, and
will jump right
in front
or vehicles travelling at 100kph.

The wombats, wild foxes, rabbits and many bird species
also litter
Australian roadsides. The repairs keep an army of panel
beaters well
healed.
What you see that's dead is the tip of the iceberg because
wounded
critters
try to get away but die from wounds and shock just out of
sight,
judging by the pongs and absense of obvious corpse.

The worst thing is when a large roo comes into the cab
through the
windshield,
and while still alive it kicks around violently and the
results to
occupants
and accident outcome is appalling.
The bloodstains are difficult to remove.

There is a fashion for eating roadkill here.

My colour vision is poor enough for me to have never
developed much of a memory for colour. Even if I can see the
different colours of wires, I know I won't be able to
remember where they were. So I got into the habit of
labelling connections with numbers before disconnecting
anything.

Nevertheless, I suffer occasional bouts of denial. At the
time of disassembly, it always feels to me like I will
remember where everything goes, and so I'm tempted to forego
the tedium of labelling. It's a matter of discipline, and
that's something about which we both feel ambivalent.

My previous Hoover front loader, possibly the first they
made, donated with blown motor cap by the mean parents of
some Scottish wife, ran for ten years with its controller
bound with string because its insides fell out after its
rivets rotted. They are remarkably reliable, considering
their complexity. Eventually the chassis rotted at a crucial
mounting point, and welding is something I've never got
into.

Its replacement went totally haywire after eight weeks. It
was a fright to see quite how badly a washing machine can
misbehave with a malfunctioning controller. Replaced under
guarantee, it ran for fifteen years without incident until a
couple of weeks ago. I've just replaced a slipping drive
belt. I guess one difference between an expensive machine
and a cheap one is a proper belt tensioner, and a wiring
loom that doesn't pass through the loop, so I had to label
dozens of wires and their inaccessible locations. Took half
a day at least.

Frank Zappa's "Flakes" in which a parody of Dylan whinges
that "they said it would be ready by Friday, but they took
all weekend, didn't do nothing, AND CHARGED ME DOUBLE FOR
SUNDAY", made me laugh.

Ian


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