Kitchen Large Electric Appliances - de808 Maytag Dryer Problem
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al4kris
08-23-08, 01:01 PM
My problem is the dryer will only run for about 20 minutes and then shuts off. Any suggestions on a solution. I think the high limit temperature switch has been by-passed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
ecman51`
08-23-08, 02:48 PM
You THINK it has? Do you know who did it?
If it was bypassed, then either you have some other thermal fuse that is some type that can reset itself, or your motor is overheating and tripping out for a while.
In order to get to the bottom of this type of problem, you'd have to be prepared to make some quick multimeter tests on it during that down time, and just before it resets, to see if you can find the 'open' circuit that should be 'closed'. (Or you could jump down to the 3rd line of my paragraph below and assess those things first, as a good thorough inspection of this dryer and a good vacuuming out may be good, anyway)
Then, depending on what went out, you'd have to assess why and correct the root cause. If say it were the motor, you would have to make sure the dryer can spin freely without having bad motor bearing, or idler pulley bearing, or bad roller bearing(s) or a belt that is getting off track and getting caught, or something hung up in the blower wheel, or something.
Clean out the whole ducting system.
If it was bypassed, then either you have some other thermal fuse that is some type that can reset itself, or your motor is overheating and tripping out for a while.
In order to get to the bottom of this type of problem, you'd have to be prepared to make some quick multimeter tests on it during that down time, and just before it resets, to see if you can find the 'open' circuit that should be 'closed'. (Or you could jump down to the 3rd line of my paragraph below and assess those things first, as a good thorough inspection of this dryer and a good vacuuming out may be good, anyway)
Then, depending on what went out, you'd have to assess why and correct the root cause. If say it were the motor, you would have to make sure the dryer can spin freely without having bad motor bearing, or idler pulley bearing, or bad roller bearing(s) or a belt that is getting off track and getting caught, or something hung up in the blower wheel, or something.
Clean out the whole ducting system.
al4kris
08-23-08, 05:46 PM
After about twenty minutes the dryer dings like it is through drying, but the clothes are not dry. It takes about seven cycles of this to dry the clothes, at which time it will continue to run and ding until the door is open. It did not just start doing this. It has been like this since I bought the dryer, used, about a year ago. A guy today came over and said he by-passed the high temp switch. I said, "I think", because I could not remember exactly what he said he by-passed.
pugsl
08-23-08, 06:39 PM
Dose the timer turn off? Dos the timer turn fast? In timed dry dose it do this?
al4kris
08-24-08, 10:03 PM
There is no timer that I can tell and there is no time dry setting.
pugsl
08-25-08, 05:00 AM
I will try to see if digram at work tomorrow.
pugsl
08-26-08, 06:07 PM
Could not find anything on machine. Timer on Maytag is usually knob or right side of consul.