I have a Maytag Neptune washer that is about 6 years old. It came with
our house when we bought it. As of yesterday, it is filling with hot
water on any cycle that calls for cold water and vice versa. The hoses
have not been touched and I know it was working right previously. I
thought about just swapping the hot and cold hoses, but this must be
indiciative of a problem. Has anyone ever heard of this happening ?
Perhaps a bad circuit board ($$$) ? I searched but could find nothing
that matches this scenario.
Thanks in advance !

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I have a Maytag Neptune washer that is about 6 years old. It came with
our house when we bought it. As of yesterday, it is filling with hot
water on any cycle that calls for cold water and vice versa. The hoses
have not been touched and I know it was working right previously. I
thought about just swapping the hot and cold hoses, but this must be
indiciative of a problem. Has anyone ever heard of this happening ?
Perhaps a bad circuit board ($$$) ? I searched but could find nothing
that matches this scenario.

It seems unusual that they might be operating in reverse. I'd
pull the washer out and check that the hoses are connected the
right way around first, even tho you're sure it hasn't been
touched.
--
Chris Lewis,

Age and Treachery will Triumph over Youth and Skill
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

In article . com, wrote:
I have a Maytag Neptune washer that is about 6 years old. It came with
our house when we bought it. As of yesterday, it is filling with hot
water on any cycle that calls for cold water and vice versa. The hoses
have not been touched and I know it was working right previously.

I'll bet that if you check with the other members of your household, you'll
discover that somebody disconnected the hoses to move the washer to clean
behind it, or retrieve a dropped article, or something like that.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

Doug Miller wrote:
In article . com, wrote:
I have a Maytag Neptune washer that is about 6 years old. It came with
our house when we bought it. As of yesterday, it is filling with hot
water on any cycle that calls for cold water and vice versa. The hoses
have not been touched and I know it was working right previously.

I'll bet that if you check with the other members of your household, you'll
discover that somebody disconnected the hoses to move the washer to clean
behind it, or retrieve a dropped article, or something like that.


Bingo.

Kids hiding their stash.

Rob

When I had a new washer installed they reversed the hot and cold
hoses-- even though in my house like in most houses the cold was on
the right.

I think it's entirely possible that for years nobody noticed.

Switch 'em and see. Much more likely that they're switched than that
something's broken in the machine to cause it to draw from the wrong
one on each cycle.

Shaun Eli
http://www.BrainChampagne.com
Brain Champagne: Clever Comedy for Smart Minds (sm)

On Jul 27, 6:48 pm, trainfan1 wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
In article . com, wrote:
I have a Maytag Neptune washer that is about 6 years old. It came with
our house when we bought it. As of yesterday, it is filling with hot
water on any cycle that calls for cold water and vice versa. The hoses
have not been touched and I know it was working right previously.

I'll bet that if you check with the other members of your household, you'll
discover that somebody disconnected the hoses to move the washer to clean
behind it, or retrieve a dropped article, or something like that.

Bingo.

Kids hiding their stash.

Rob

Sorry, but it must be something else going on. I checked the lines and
they have not been touched. The machine is in a spot that makes it
very hard to move and/or get at the lines. It is the most bizarre
thing. I guess I will have to have someone come out. Thanks to all who
have responded.

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On Jul 27, 6:48 pm, trainfan1 wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
In article . com,
wrote:
I have a Maytag Neptune washer that is about 6 years old. It came with
our house when we bought it. As of yesterday, it is filling with hot
water on any cycle that calls for cold water and vice versa. The hoses
have not been touched and I know it was working right previously.

I'll bet that if you check with the other members of your household, you'll
discover that somebody disconnected the hoses to move the washer to clean
behind it, or retrieve a dropped article, or something like that.

Bingo.

Kids hiding their stash.

Rob

Sorry, but it must be something else going on. I checked the lines and
they have not been touched. The machine is in a spot that makes it
very hard to move and/or get at the lines. It is the most bizarre
thing. I guess I will have to have someone come out. Thanks to all who
have responded.


The question should not be whether they have been touched, but whether they are
connected correctly.

Bob

In article .com, wrote:

Sorry, but it must be something else going on. I checked the lines and
they have not been touched. The machine is in a spot that makes it
very hard to move and/or get at the lines. It is the most bizarre
thing. I guess I will have to have someone come out. Thanks to all who
have responded.

Have you at least checked to see if they're connected correctly? The inlets on
the washer are labelled to show which is hot and which is cold; check to make
sure that the hoses are connected to the proper pipes.

If you call a repairman without checking first, my prediction is that you're
going to pay a $100 service call to have the guy tell you the hoses are
hooked up backward. It is *far* more likely that they've been wrong for years,
and you never noticed until yesterday, than it is that the controls have
failed in such a way that their operation is reversed and everything else
works normally. I'm not saying that's impossible, just very, very unlikely in
comparison. At least check which hose goes where, before you call a service
tech.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:53:47 -0700, wrote:

I have a Maytag Neptune washer that is about 6 years old. It came with
our house when we bought it. As of yesterday, it is filling with hot
water on any cycle that calls for cold water and vice versa. The hoses
have not been touched and I know it was working right previously. I
thought about just swapping the hot and cold hoses, but this must be
indiciative of a problem.

You have a Maytag Neptune, and Neptune just passed the apogee (or
aponep) of its orbit around the sun. This causes the water to
reverse. Neptune's orbit is 186 years iirc so if you reverse the
hoses, you should be ok for another 93.

Has anyone ever heard of this happening ?
Perhaps a bad circuit board ($$$) ? I searched but could find nothing
that matches this scenario.

There are more than two settings. But, if hot and cold work
backwards, then warm should be ok. If wash and rinse are both
backwards, then both should work out ok with the hoses switched.
Sounds good to me. Maybe someday it will get bad again, and that
might answer the nagging question, how did this happen in the first
place?

Thanks in advance !