On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:23:37 -0400, bobmct
wrote:

I have a Kenmore Elite DW and today is has no power.

Not even when you manually cycle the machine, stopping at different
parts of the cycle?

I checked the
breaker for its dedicated circuit and it was not tripped. I reset it
anyway. There were no other breakers tripped.

I thought before I start digging into this I might ask here if anyone
knows where on this machine I should start looking? The manual that
came with it is uselesss.

It's an operation manual, not a service manual.

Ideas please? Thanks

Whether your machine is hard-wired to the electricity or maybe plugged
in, find the place where it connects to the power and check with a
meter if there 110 volts or so coming from the wall. If not, you
still have an electric supply problem, a failed circuit breaker maybe
(not very likely) or you are mixed up and measuring the votage from
the dishwasher, not the voltage from the fuse box.

If Yes, leave the DW unplugged or undo the wire nuts and disconnect
the wires from the power wires, and then, with the dw On, measure the
resistance between the two wires that come from the dishwasher. (If
you think you may have mixed up which pair of wires is which, measure
for voltage before measuring for resistance.)

I have no idea what Elite means, but if turning the DW on doesn't
yield a less than infinite resistance between the two wires that power
it, you have a bad on/off switch somewhere.