Thread Number: 65426
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Circuit board work? |
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Post# 880315 , Reply# 4   5/11/2016 at 10:55 (2,904 days old) by Wishwash (Indiana)   |   | |
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To mess with the microcontroller programming. Any idea how this is done by the engineers at WP? |
Post# 880317 , Reply# 5   5/11/2016 at 11:09 (2,904 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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Specialiced connection interface, probably a logic level converter, some highly copyrighted and impossible to get software tool as well as highly protected data files in some embeded-system-type language. Basicly, impossible. |
Post# 880517 , Reply# 6   5/12/2016 at 23:23 (2,903 days old) by Murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US)   |   | |
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I actually still have my WTW4800 in the garage that I'm debating selling now that the BravOasis has proven to be reliable so far. I'd like to keep it for when we have a larger laundry room and can have two washer hookups but sometimes I get in a "minimize everything" mood and can't decide what to do. Mine was the last VMW with the true agitator and tub that was used in the last generation direct drives much like your Kenmore, but it has the four water level settings that fill up past the upper row of holes and has the Fabric Softener option, so the washer behaves just like a good old traditional machine so long as that option is on.
I wonder, not knowing right off hand the cost of parts, if you could buy the control panel and logic board for that same Whirlpool and just hot swap it on your Kenmore, since mechanically and electrically they're identical aside from variations in available options. That may cost more than would be sensible however, but at the same time I don't think you can buy this design anymore with a water level selector. The only model I see that is listed for either Kenmore or Whirlpool is one that still has the dual action agitator but no level selector, and not many options either. All the rest are agipeller machines. Maytag doesn't even have the agitator anymore. That was just a thought though. Not anything too noteworthy. I do see my same WTW4800 on Craigslist now and then for around ~200 or so, so that may be a possibility if you're thinking of selling your Kenmore. The 4800 is an excellent machine in my opinion; mine was used for three years without a single complaint or hiccup, and still is in brand new condition. The splutch doesn't even look a bit worn. The WP VMW platform was definitely a better fit with the traditional agitator design than it is as an HE impeller/agipeller machine. |