Thread Number: 57641
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
New Whirlpool Duet showing signs of possible issues? |
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Post# 800518 , Reply# 2   12/23/2014 at 12:16 (3,383 days old) by BoschExxcel ()   |   | |
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henene4, Ive found my whirlpool aborts the programme when pausing on the final spin. I then have to put it on the separate spin cycle, a bit of a pain! |
Post# 800520 , Reply# 3   12/23/2014 at 12:28 (3,383 days old) by electron1100 (England)   |   | |
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Surely you are joking, in this day and age manufacturers are sourcing unreliable control boards...........my god imagine such a board in an aircraft for example......oh I think I will switch off engine Number 3.......amazing all this technology and still they cannot make a simple program board..................and yet I know several computer controlled machines from the 1980s that are still working without problems or spurious programs.
Amazing just amazing |
Post# 800536 , Reply# 5   12/23/2014 at 14:36 (3,383 days old) by BoschExxcel ()   |   | |
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Mine normally cuts down the time. I guess if you wanted gentle you could reduce the spins speed and stop the programme before it's finished? |
Post# 800609 , Reply# 7   12/23/2014 at 20:40 (3,383 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas)   |   | |
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Keep track and write down when it does goofy stuff. Since is is under warranty, don't hesitate to call service.
My Maytag 5000 series does funny things from time to time that has worried me, but it doesn't do it consistently enough to go shopping for a new machine, or call for service.
Like: sometimes if you pause the machine to add clothes in the Heavy duty cycle, the time remaining will go back to the original setting when the cycle started. |
Post# 800646 , Reply# 8   12/24/2014 at 00:03 (3,383 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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Post# 800660 , Reply# 9   12/24/2014 at 05:00 (3,383 days old) by electron1100 (England)   |   | |
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Post# 800662 , Reply# 10   12/24/2014 at 05:27 (3,383 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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As a sidebar, aircraft computers DO perform unanticipated actions. *Most* resulting deaths are compounded by erroneous crew actions and/or unanticipated hardware anomalies and computer responses thereto.
But really, there is no viable excuse for code that can't make it through a washing machine cycle without gagging. There are however, reasons. I'm not a 'professional coder' but I've written flawless machine control code because I fully understood the machine I was controlling. 'Professional coders' seldom have such utility. Their understanding of the machine is slightly worse (nominal error) than the data they were given. Otherwise they have no concept of the machine itself. HUGE handicap. Next, what we used to call 'testing', much like what we used to call 'employment' within the development chain, have both drastically diminished along parallel curves. Much/most hardware is sold with known deficiencies and the anticipation of needed firmware revisions. Case in point, entire lines of late 00s Dell desktops had firmware (BIOS) that couldn't control the fan. Fan control is the second-simplest BIOS job, after power on/off. Yet it took FIVE firmware revisions to get it right. An eighth-grader with engineering aspirations could get it right in two. Pardon the Seinfeld reference, but whazup wit dat? It's corporations-- ALL of them-- loathe to define/identify/pay for competence. IOW competence exists but dumbshits are cheaper so that's what's controlling your washer. |
Post# 800673 , Reply# 12   12/24/2014 at 06:54 (3,382 days old) by electron1100 (England)   |   | |
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Post# 801415 , Reply# 15   12/29/2014 at 11:41 (3,377 days old) by washerdude (Canada )   |   | |
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It did it just did it again on the heavy duty cycle. Same pattern. |
Post# 814845 , Reply# 17   3/20/2015 at 01:34 (3,297 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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the board had problems! I think that's the reason I joined this forum in the first place back then. I would get F/DL code flashing and the machine would beep and stop. It would NOT start back, but I discovered that if I hit the top back right side of the machine really hard, it would start working again. I shared that info on gardenweb laundry forum and people who had the same issues were so happy that hitting the machine worked. (LOL)
Anyway - The repair person came out, ordered a door lock (that took week), he came back, installed the new lock and guess what - that wasn't it! F/DL returned. He came back out and messed with the connections and that seemed to help (that's all he did on that trip), that worked for a few weeks, then the F/DL returned. Another call, he came back and ordered a new control board. Once he installed that, I plugged my machine into a surge protector and it has worked great ever since, except an F11 code I got once like 5 years ago.....LUCKILY, the machine would work while I was waiting for repair. If it gave an error, I just hit the top really hard and it worked for a few cycles, so at least I could get laundry done while waiting. I'm honestly NOT sure if the surge protector is helping, but with these new machines, I always tell people to use a surge protector just in case. |