ChadTower uses his new electrical skills... to prove he's a dumbass

[ChadTower]

Okay, feel free to laugh at me while I kick myself in the head.

Last night I'm cleaning out the area of the basement behind the washer and dryer.  The cold water input on the washer leaks a bit, then the dryer lint gets in it, and it gets this pasty stuff on the floor.  So I'm back there cleaning, and I'm looking into what I can do to fix the leak.  I move the washer a foot to the left.  I continue cleaning.

Later on I'm trying to do laundry and the washer is now dead.  Dead, dead, no response to turning it on.  DAMN.  So, I have all the mad 3l3ctrical sk1llz now, right?  I'm anxious to use them.  I test the outlet... good, grounded.  I take the CP off and the housing off and test the power supply and the lid switch... both good.  I run some more tests for continuity... good.  I finally determine there must have been a part on the ledge and I pushed it off when I moved the machine.  I resign myself to calling a repair guy and go upstairs to curse at myself for a while.

An hour later I have a flash of realization and I go back downstairs, turn the WATER source back on, and it starts right up.  I had turned off the WATER when I was checking the hoses.  I was so anxious to use my new mad 3l3ctrical sk1llz that I never even thought about WATER.

I spent two hours taking that thing apart and testing parts of it... and that's not counting the putting it back together that still needs to be done. 

 

[Sephroth57]

n00bie!!

[Goz]

DOH!!

[missioncontrol]

you didn't hear the motor buzzing while it was trying to pump water???

[ChadTower]

There isn't a motor, it just opens the 'faucet' and lets it pour in.  The motor would be in the drain.

[missioncontrol]

mine makes a humming sound when the water is shut off and you try to turn it on I just got up and checked........

[ChadTower]

Does it make that humming sound when the water is on as well, masked by the running water sound?

[missioncontrol]

you can't really hear it when the water is running unless you try to listen read hard

[ChadTower]

Yeah, maybe mine is just that much quieter, or maybe there was something in the way, but I wasn't hearing anything and I had my damn head in there.

[missioncontrol]

well at least you figured it out before the repair guy got there.....

[ChadTower]

Seriously, that would have BEEN REALLY BAD if I'd paid like $100 for a guy to come out and pull the water valve level back down.

[RayB]

Could be it has a cut-off switch when there's no water pressure.

[ChadTower]

That's possible... there are a couple of two connector disconnects on either water intake, I had assumed they were to prevent fire if the water intake starts to leak internally.  Maybe they were cutting off because of lack of pressure instead.

[danny_galaga]

there is normally a solenoid for each hose in and a pump to take the water out again between cycles and for spin drying. at the start of the cycle you probably wouldn't be hearing the water pump as it isn't needed until later...

[ChadTower]

That's consistent with what I saw.