Andre Majorel wrote:
On 2011-02-11, Jeffrey Angus wrote:
On 2/11/2011 2:32 PM, Andre Majorel wrote:
After reflowing everything on the controller board and reseating
the connectors it still won't work.
The motor of the washing machine spins for a few degrees and
stops. You can get it to spin (slowly) by pulling on the belt
but only in one direction ! Lots of sparks inside the motor.
The brushes are good and the motor seems mechanically fine.
I suspect the triac (ST BTB16 600CI). Plausible ?
does the motor have a start capacitor and a centrifugal
speed switch to disconnect it?
I thought that was mutually exclusive with having brushes.
I didn't know washing machines had brushed motors?
They do have variable speed controllers that do fail, along with
shorting the motor windings with them!
Jamie