Fisher and Paykel Washing machine error codes

[Dan]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone here can help me. My Fisher and Paykel washing
machine decided to die in mid-cycle. With the help of Google I figured
out what the main problem was a faulty motor controller. I've replaced
it and the machine turns on OK, which it didn't do at all before. I'm
pretty sure that a resistor on the PCB had burnt out...

Unfortunately now when I turn it on and try to commence a cycle to get
rid of water still in the bottom of the bowl, I get the "Spin" and
"Short Wash" lights staying on and a 1 second on-off beep which keeps
repeating.

I tried to follow up a link I found from an aus.electronics post last
year but the page doesn't appear to work:
http://www.dougsmithspares.com.au/faultcodes.htm

If anyone out there could help it would be very appreciated!

Cheers,
Dan

 

[The Real Andy]

Use those links to find out how to set the bowl size. I'd tell you but I can
remember how to do it.


"Dan" <dansmail@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm hoping someone here can help me. My Fisher and Paykel washing
machine decided to die in mid-cycle. With the help of Google I figured
out what the main problem was a faulty motor controller. I've replaced
it and the machine turns on OK, which it didn't do at all before. I'm
pretty sure that a resistor on the PCB had burnt out...

Unfortunately now when I turn it on and try to commence a cycle to get
rid of water still in the bottom of the bowl, I get the "Spin" and
"Short Wash" lights staying on and a 1 second on-off beep which keeps
repeating.

I tried to follow up a link I found from an aus.electronics post last
year but the page doesn't appear to work:
http://www.dougsmithspares.com.au/faultcodes.htm

If anyone out there could help it would be very appreciated!

Cheers,
Dan

 

[mikegw]

"Dan" <dansmail@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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I tried to follow up a link I found from an aus.electronics post last
year but the page doesn't appear to work:
http://www.dougsmithspares.com.au/faultcodes.htm

If anyone out there could help it would be very appreciated!

Cheers,
Dan

Start at www.archive.org and get the old copy. I tried it and it seems to
be there.

Mike

 

[The Real Andy]

"Dan" <dansmail@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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dansmail@fastmail.fm (Dan) wrote in message
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Thanks to an e-mail I received from a reader of the group containing
all the error and service info for the electronic modules I got it
working. As per one of the above posts I had to set the bowl size.

The stupid thing is that the bowl size (model type) is detected via a couple
of switches on the main board. Plug the controller in to a particular model
and the chassis presses a certain configuration of the two buttons. Why it
cant just detect the model on power up gets me. Why do you have to instruct
it to read the switches?? Stupid..

 

[The Real Andy]

"cdb" <barnDOTc@webcityuk.zznDOTcom> wrote in message
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The stupid thing is that the bowl size (model type) is detected via a
couple
of switches on the main board. Plug the controller in to a particular
model
and the chassis presses a certain configuration of the two buttons. Why
it
cant just detect the model on power up gets me. Why do you have to
instruct
it to read the switches?? Stupid..


Perhaps it's so they can build the same chassis, but put different drum
sizes depending on the country they're exporting to. Means they only need
to
have one run programming the uP. Though of course they could do this as a
LUT in EEPROM.

You can still have one program running, just read the switches on power-up
(initialisation)..