Hello Joy, This sounds to me like a problem with the water level sensor.
usually these are a rubber tube which extends up from an attachment to the tub which is attached to a pressure sensor. As the tub fills the rising water displaces air in the hose causing a diaphragm to distort eventually making an electrical contact. The level control usually moves the contact point closer or further from the diaphragm so the diaphragm must distort more or less to complete the circuit. There are a few variations on the theme so please, the purists on the list please forgive me if this isn't an exact description of each device. Once the contact is made usually the rest of the equipment operates, the water is shut off, what ever other parts of the system continue their work. When the electrical contact is broken everything stops and the filler solenoids again activate until pressure causes the electrical contact to again close.If, for any reason the contact does not close then the water continues to flow. Maybe the most common fault is an air leak in the little rubber hose. The pressure rises until the contact is made but over a little time some of the air bleeds off and the pressure falls breaking the contact. Now, as more water fills the tub it cannot raise the air pressure enough to make the connection again. If the leak is very slow then over night or some other extended period of time the tube may fill enough with air to apparently work correctly for a time. The leak may not be in the hose, it may be that the hose is a little loose on a fitting or some other failed seal. It might even bee in the sensor. Sometimes just pulling the tube off of the nipple and replacing it is enough to resolve the problem.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joy Cyr To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:39 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Washing machine Problems! To all you knowledgeable people, I'd like some advice please. My washing machine got rather dramatically ill this afternoon. I don't believe I'm up to repairing it myself but if anyone can help me to understand what is happening before I have to deal with a repair person I'd feel a lot better. (Especially since the person I usually hire is not available.) I have an apartment sized World Pool, about eight years old. It has a permapress setting that I was using today when this started. In this setting it fills, swishes for a bit, partially drains, refills and then continues through the cycle. During the rinse (fortunately I was nearby) I noticed that it hadn't done the partial drain, and now it was filling again. Its been a while since I used that setting so I thought maybe I had missed remembered. Well it kept filling and while I did realize something was wrong fairly quickly unfortunately not before the blasted thing over flowed. I got it draining and began the clean up. I mainly used towels and hoped that if I used a different setting all would be well. So I put the towels in. It began normally, filled to the right level, started to move, than stopped and started filling again. I've tried it on a variety of settings, unplugged it and replugged it (I learnt to my horror last summer that its most expensive little part is a computer chip so thought a sort of reset might help), but every time I try to restart it it wants to keep on filling. Any thoughts? Sorry for the novel, ... didn't think there was a point in half the story! Yours sincerely, Joy Please take a few moments to browse and enjoy my original artwork at: www.tigerfeathers.ca [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
