"Lee" wrote in message
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On 20/01/2015 14:52, Arfa Daily wrote:

I'm wondering whether there is a high value
resistor between this wire and earth, and it is some kind of static leak
from the rotating drum somewhere.

Service manual (for the IDCA735IT if it's different) has J11 1 as
green/yellow ground and J11 2 as a black wire to the "drum sensing strip"

If that's any help...
http://elektrotanya.com/indesit_idca.../download.html


Wahey! You absolute little cracker you !! I searched everywhere for a copy
of this manual. Never even considered Elektrotanya, and I use them for
manuals at least twice every single week. I guess that's because whenever
you Google for a manual, and ET have got it, they are always top or second
on the list, and in this case, they never showed up at all. I have found the
apparent location of this sensor strip on the exploded view, and it looks
like it's part of the plastic lump that the drum front sits in. When it's
good and light tomorrow, I'll see if I can see a connector tag for the wire
to go on. If it is some kind of strip that the front edge of the drum is
running on, then I'm willing to bet that it is for static discharging, and
the name has got lost in the translation from the Italian a bit.

Seriously, thank you thank you ! If you ever come to Wellingborough, I owe
you a burger from our diner ! :-)

Arfa

On 20/01/2015 17:59, Arfa Daily wrote:

I have found the apparent location of this sensor strip on the
exploded view, and it looks like it's part of the plastic lump that the
drum front sits in. When it's good and light tomorrow, I'll see if I can
see a connector tag for the wire to go on. If it is some kind of strip
that the front edge of the drum is running on, then I'm willing to bet
that it is for static discharging, and the name has got lost in the
translation from the Italian a bit.

Inclined to agree with you, but am reminded of how our current one
works, in that it has a similar sensor that it somehow uses as a
"humidity" sensor (as it's referred to in the manual) to gauge how "dry"
the clothes are. In our case it is nothing more than a short piece of
polished stainless so quite how it works I don't know. Maybe it's
capacitive, or RF damping or something

The one we had before used the difference in temperature between a pair
of NTCs to perform the same function, although the current one does seem
to be better at it...

"Lee" wrote in message
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On 20/01/2015 17:59, Arfa Daily wrote:

I have found the apparent location of this sensor strip on the
exploded view, and it looks like it's part of the plastic lump that the
drum front sits in. When it's good and light tomorrow, I'll see if I can
see a connector tag for the wire to go on. If it is some kind of strip
that the front edge of the drum is running on, then I'm willing to bet
that it is for static discharging, and the name has got lost in the
translation from the Italian a bit.

Inclined to agree with you, but am reminded of how our current one works,
in that it has a similar sensor that it somehow uses as a "humidity"
sensor (as it's referred to in the manual) to gauge how "dry" the clothes
are. In our case it is nothing more than a short piece of polished
stainless so quite how it works I don't know. Maybe it's capacitive, or RF
damping or something

The one we had before used the difference in temperature between a pair of
NTCs to perform the same function, although the current one does seem to
be better at it...


Looks like the location of this connection will be behind the control board
somewhere, This comes out easily with two screws through the machine's front
panel, so I'll whip it off tomorrow and get a good look behind.
Interestingly, the board was removed from the front as part of the job, so
maybe as I withdrew the board, that wire pulled off its tag, and that's why
I don't remember taking it off ...

Arfa