September 14, 20205 yr I bought a used washer that has worked fine for the last year. Recently, it started tripping the braker every few wash cycles. I would love to limp along for the next 3 months until I move and get a new one anyway, but also don't want to burn the house down.Any thoughts on what's going on that would cause this and how urgent of a problem it is to correct? My location and hours make it difficult to get a repair guy to come out and take a look.
September 14, 20205 yr Do you have another plug close enough to move the washer to a different circuit to verify it is not the plug or breaker? Otherwise it could be multiple issues with the washer. If you have a meter, you can do some fairly straightforward checks that may help identify the issue.
September 14, 20205 yr 24 minutes ago, hookem2010 said: I bought a used washer that has worked fine for the last year. Recently, it started tripping the braker every few wash cycles. I would love to limp along for the next 3 months until I move and get a new one anyway, but also don't want to burn the house down. Any thoughts on what's going on that would cause this and how urgent of a problem it is to correct? My location and hours make it difficult to get a repair guy to come out and take a look. When does it trip and does it seem consistent? e.g. always when starting, sometime during washing, only if non-cold water chosen (ie heater needed) First thing I would try is make sure set to only using COLD water to avoid having it use the main electricity draw of the heating element.
September 14, 20205 yr 3 hours ago, Parliament said: Put a bigger breaker in. Great way to burn the house down
September 14, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, EE2B said: Do you have another plug close enough to move the washer to a different circuit to verify it is not the plug or breaker? Otherwise it could be multiple issues with the washer. If you have a meter, you can do some fairly straightforward checks that may help identify the issue. good advice. Use a heavy extension cord and plug it in elsewhere. If it trips a different breaker, you've got a washer issue. If it doesn't, you've got a breaker failing.
September 14, 20205 yr Author I never notice it shut down during a cycle, but when I go to start a new load I realize its been tripped. I may be able to reach a different outlet to see if that makes a difference. Thanks for the input.
September 14, 20205 yr Is anything else running when it happens? Circuit might be overloaded. Breaker might be taking a shit. Is it a gfci breaker?
September 14, 20205 yr Why is your wife repeatedly tripping the breaker? Edited September 14, 20205 yr by midtown
September 15, 20205 yr Why is your wife repeatedly tripping the breaker? Jody is tripping it so he can get out of the house.
September 15, 20205 yr My guess is something is making the motor draw too much during the start of the spin cycle. Either motor getting old, rusting or just goobery bearings. Run a empty load on the lowest water level and see if it still trips. I'm actually surprised though because modern washers are so finnicky and have so much electronics they have error detections for all sorts of things.
September 15, 20205 yr 6 hours ago, Alex Karev said: Don't buy Matag washing machines Now you tell me. Three times my washer just flat out stopped working, I mean it had no response from the stupid ass fake knobs. Twice it just started working again a few days later. The most recent time I learned how to go into diagnostic mode and cleared the error code and it was back to normal.
September 16, 20205 yr 5 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said: Now you tell me. Three times my washer just flat out stopped working, I mean it had no response from the stupid ass fake knobs. Twice it just started working again a few days later. The most recent time I learned how to go into diagnostic mode and cleared the error code and it was back to normal. I fought that for 4 years then it quit for good.
September 20, 20205 yr On 9/15/2020 at 10:21 PM, Alex Karev said: I fought that for 4 years then it quit for good. Gotdam thing fubared again. Pulled out the multimeter, but it fixed itself after I just pulled out a connection and plugged it back in. Wtf?
September 21, 20205 yr A lot of times rain getting into an external outlet will trigger a breaker to go off. So if you see the same breaker going off when it's raining that's probably it.
September 21, 20205 yr On September 16, 2020 at 12:35 PM, freyguy said: Laughed hard at this. Reminds me of a dude years ago that jammed a piece of wood against breaker and cover.
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