Hello everyone,
I am new to this but will be using this forum more often since I like DIY things.
My problem is one that happened to some people in this forum already. My Indesit WIDL 146 wash/dry machine has encountered several issues.
Right now, the machine won't start up, and just flashes all LEDs on the control board. According to the error code ( //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1282161#1282161 ), the dryer heater relay is broken.
Before this, it still worked and had another issue though. The machine kept letting water in and turning the drum, and repeating that process forever... while it should just do that once or twice and then continue washing. I've been able to avoid this problem by restarting the machine in the past. (which is just luck I guess).
Anyway, now I'm stuck with something nonfunctional so I decided to open up the machine and take a look at the PCB and see if I can find the broken relay (as it says wit the LEDS). I've taken a look at the following two topics for help: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=185931 and //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1245330
I've purchased 4 spares of the exact same relay... so I decided to try to fix the PCB myself. I've desoldered two of the relays which I thought could be broken, and one of them had a broken open contact. So now I replaced that relay, and plugged the PCB back.. and nothing seems to have changed. Here is the old picture of the PCB:
The broken relay is the one on the upper-right corner. Now the PCB looks the same, but all relays are opened up, making it easier to test them. Also the soldering in the back isn't that nice since I'm not a solder expert hehe.. but I've soldered it good enough I believe.
Help is highly appreciated!
- Ethem
I am new to this but will be using this forum more often since I like DIY things.
My problem is one that happened to some people in this forum already. My Indesit WIDL 146 wash/dry machine has encountered several issues.
Right now, the machine won't start up, and just flashes all LEDs on the control board. According to the error code ( //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1282161#1282161 ), the dryer heater relay is broken.
Before this, it still worked and had another issue though. The machine kept letting water in and turning the drum, and repeating that process forever... while it should just do that once or twice and then continue washing. I've been able to avoid this problem by restarting the machine in the past. (which is just luck I guess).
Anyway, now I'm stuck with something nonfunctional so I decided to open up the machine and take a look at the PCB and see if I can find the broken relay (as it says wit the LEDS). I've taken a look at the following two topics for help: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=185931 and //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1245330
I've purchased 4 spares of the exact same relay... so I decided to try to fix the PCB myself. I've desoldered two of the relays which I thought could be broken, and one of them had a broken open contact. So now I replaced that relay, and plugged the PCB back.. and nothing seems to have changed. Here is the old picture of the PCB:
The broken relay is the one on the upper-right corner. Now the PCB looks the same, but all relays are opened up, making it easier to test them. Also the soldering in the back isn't that nice since I'm not a solder expert hehe.. but I've soldered it good enough I believe.
Help is highly appreciated!
- Ethem