Hi Bluejets and thanks for your continued interest - much appreciated.
I took the whole motor out of the casing yesterday. As there had been a lot of liquid (grey, oily watery stuff) coming out of it the previous day, I didn't think there was any point doing any electrical testing until I had...
Hi Bluejets. I expect you're thoroughly bored with my problem now.
I have read everything you have written on this thread, but no need to worry about deja vu.
Yesterday I began stripping the washer down. I had had to get some impact torx bits as I had been unable to free the bolts that hold...
Will do, as soon as it arrives.
The original trip was on the house RCD, not a fuse or MCB. This happened first when I was jetting a drain run and the machine just cut out. It was plugged into a four-way extension lead and then into a wall socket. Did a bit of searching and it was suggested the...
Hi all. Talented amateur here, stage electrician at school 1971 - 74 and have done much DIY electrical work iover the years, including central heating systems. I worked for several years for the residential division of Honeywell Control Systems and wrote many installation and user instructions...
After testing the blanket circuits, where there was resistance on one but none on the other/s, that is conclusion I have reached as well.
It has been binned.
Cheers.
SP
Just looked at a YouTube video on diode testing and if I've done it right, then all diodes check out ok, giving a reading of around 0.6v.
Starting to suspect it's the blanket's wiring at fault, not the controller.
Hi all.
My neighbour ask me if I can try and fix her electric blanket.
The blanket wiring itself *may* be faulty, but when she took it in to a local electrical shop they did some tests on the blanket and the controller and said there was a fault in the controller's wiring.
Well, I have...
Should have mentioned bulbs are incandescent.
Have already replaced the switch, just excercising my curiosity as this is the second such switch taken out by an incandescent bulb failure in my house in the last couple of years.
Hi all.
Well, I replaced the triac with a BT139 and it made no difference.
Original symptom persists: as soon as you press the pot seutch the light is on at full. Varying the pot makes no difference.
So, could another component be at fault?
The triac cost as much as the whole switch more or...