Hi
So my daughter has one of these dishwashers and must be 10-12 years old.
It is stuck in a mode where it continually tries to drain water and will
not run any program.
If you put some water in the bottom it'll suck it out OK but the pump
doesn't stop running. Even when it thinks a program is finished, which
can only be achieved by pressing the cancel button, the pump continues
to run.
She hadn't used the dishwasher for a couple of months. It worked fine
before.
Anybody know of a sensor that detects the presence of water?

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Grumps wrote:
Hi
So my daughter has one of these dishwashers and must be 10-12 years old.
It is stuck in a mode where it continually tries to drain water and will
not run any program.
If you put some water in the bottom it'll suck it out OK but the pump
doesn't stop running. Even when it thinks a program is finished, which
can only be achieved by pressing the cancel button, the pump continues
to run.
She hadn't used the dishwasher for a couple of months. It worked fine
before.
Anybody know of a sensor that detects the presence of water?

possibly a float switch which has become stuck . Hard water area?

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After serious thinking charles wrote :
possibly a float switch which has become stuck .

Sometimes a sensitive diaphragm air pressure, at the top of the
machine, with a pipe down to bottom of machine. Water rising up the
pipe, triggers the diaphragm and switch. The pipes sometimes become
choked with debris, holding in the slight air pressure, so pump runs
trying to pump the water out.

"Grumps" wrote in message ...
Hi
So my daughter has one of these dishwashers and must be 10-12 years old.

If you've got 10 years out of a Beko DW you've been lucky

HTH

tim

Yes often detach and shove something up it to clean it. I was going to say
this as a similar silly device had us confused in a carpet vacuum that did
not know the tank was empty and was cleaning dry. Of course float switches
should not get stuck if the device was not put away with water in its tray.
I constantly here of problems with dishwashers, and have never even
considered buy one myself.
Brian

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After serious thinking charles wrote :
possibly a float switch which has become stuck .

Sometimes a sensitive diaphragm air pressure, at the top of the machine,
with a pipe down to bottom of machine. Water rising up the pipe, triggers
the diaphragm and switch. The pipes sometimes become choked with debris,
holding in the slight air pressure, so pump runs trying to pump the water
out.

Harry Bloomfield, Esq. wrote:
After serious thinking charles wrote :
possibly a float switch which has become stuck .

Sometimes a sensitive diaphragm air pressure, at the top of the
machine, with a pipe down to bottom of machine. Water rising up the
pipe, triggers the diaphragm and switch. The pipes sometimes become
choked with debris, holding in the slight air pressure, so pump runs
trying to pump the water out.

Also if the filter is blocked it can cause water to spill out where it
shouldn't and trip the aquastop. Even tiny amounts of water in the
undertray can activate the aquastop.

Clean the filter, run some hot water through it (it will frantically try to
pump it out). Leave it open and with the plinth off for a couple of days to
dry out and then see if the problem is still there.

Theo