Greetings -

Recently given a nearly-new Whirlpool dishwasher, surplus from a company's
relocation. Installed it today, cleaned it out and ran it a few times to
flush the pipes. Announced to adoring spouse that it's ready to use, and
start putting my tools away. Moments later, there's a gunshot *bang*
accompanied by familiar smell of "buggered electrics". Obviously someone
up there has a sense of humour.....

Anyhow, tipped it over and immediately found the problem was a little grey
device filtering the incoming mains, the casing had been blown open
releasing a bit of black, oily muck. Photo at http://tinyurl.com/34y8gc

This device looks pretty similar to the replacement four-teminal capacitors
pictured on http://tinyurl.com/2s96vw , and I'm assuming that's what it is.
However, it's mounted on a steel backplate with an earth connection into the
capacitor.

Two questions for the experts please :

- Does this failure signify another fault somewhere in the dishwasher's
circuits? I don't think it's meant to act as a safety cut-out, and I'm
assuming it just chose to fail because of Sod's Law, but please correct me
if I'm wrong.

- How do I spec an equivalent unit? Is it important to be very close to
the original, or will any similar appliance capacitor serve the same purpose
(suppresion of RFI / EMI?). The case is marked with following :

D.E.M
F3CF75005L
0.15uF (X1) + 1M?
+2x0.027uF (Y2)
250V 50/60Hz _ 16A/40?C

- Where would be the best place to obtain a replacement, preferably placing
a web order today?


Thanks in advance!
Steve