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Thread Number: 1311
Higher End Kenmore's/ Elite Washers |
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| Post# 57384 2/16/2005 at 11:12 (7,007 days old) by Bryan71 () | ||
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Looked at the higher end kenmores this past weekend. Where is the lid switch on these machines and are the easy to access to view the wash action? | ||
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Post# 57388 , Reply# 1 2/16/2005 at 12:31 (7,007 days old) by coldspot66  (Plymouth, Mass) |
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If you are talking about top loading washers, the lid switches are now hidden according to a new UL mandate that all washers do not agitate or spin with the lid up. I think it took effect on july 2004. | ||
| Post# 57392 , Reply# 2 2/16/2005 at 13:17 (7,007 days old) by partscounterman (Cortez, Colorado) | ||
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Stinkin' UL I mean, I can understand not spinning with the lid up, but what sort of moron would it take to get hurt by the agitator for goodness sakes! My heart aches for all the little washerheads who will have to wait until they are old enough to rewire the washer to have any fun | ||
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Post# 57393 , Reply# 3 2/16/2005 at 13:24 (7,007 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 57395 , Reply# 4 2/16/2005 at 13:34 (7,007 days old) by Bryan71 () | ||
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Thanks I think it is only the Elite models that will not operate with the lid open. The standard Kenmore models still do I believe and still have the standard lid switch. | ||
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Post# 57396 , Reply# 5 2/16/2005 at 13:36 (7,007 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 57436 , Reply# 7 2/16/2005 at 19:00 (7,007 days old) by RE563 (Fort Worth, Texas) |
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Post# 57457 , Reply# 8 2/16/2005 at 23:29 (7,007 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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On the Calypso washers, the control board would only run a new cycle when the lid switch had been opened and closed again. I suppose this was to prevent a new cycle from being started with clean clothes still in the machine, but it was not a simple snip & wirenut bypass of the lid switch. In the one I had, I installed a simple on-off switch on the back panel, when the cycle was finished you flipped the swtich to off and then back on again and it fooled the smarter than the average bear computer into thinking the lid was closed.
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| Post# 57547 , Reply# 9 2/17/2005 at 21:02 (7,006 days old) by david (CA) | ||
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ewwwwww! Hmmm. Cut off switches on washers during wash and rinse and spin. Maybe doing away with the spin brake on all of them now and winding up with an indexing tub. | ||
| Post# 57612 , Reply# 10 2/18/2005 at 11:09 (7,005 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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When was the last report anybody heard of an agitator taking off someones hand during agitation?That's probably why fl's have windows.....to wean us washer heads who like to see action in a tl move to a HE fl.....clever very clever. | ||
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Post# 57627 , Reply# 11 2/18/2005 at 13:48 (7,005 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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Its not about the agitator Hi guys, its more about the risk of scalding from hot water entering the machine. All the Whirlpool's over here now dont operate with the lid up, at all. Most of our domestic machines are all the same and have been for quite some time. | ||
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Post# 57628 , Reply# 12 2/18/2005 at 14:31 (7,005 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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