Hotpoint condenser dryer overheating. Heard a loud bang fom dryer then smell of burning. Checked to see if power cable was melting but was ok. The back of the machine was red hot though thanks for any ideas

Unfortunately, without a picture of the symbol you are describing, it is difficult to give a precise answer. However, based on your description of the symbol and the accompanying burning plastic smell, it is possible that the symbol is indicating an issue with the dryer's motor or belt. The symbol you are describing with the oval and arrows could indicate a rotating part, such as a drum or belt, and the smell of burning plastic suggests that something in the motor or belt may have overheated and melted.
It is important to immediately stop using the dryer and unplug it from the electrical outlet until you can determine the cause of the issue and make any necessary repairs. It may be best to contact a professional technician or LG customer service for further assistance and to avoid causing any further damage to the dryer.

Any burning smell is not good. Indicates that something in there is too hot and perhaps melting something. Could even catch fire......

Could very well be that whatever is responsible for the noise can be causing the problemo.

The same happened to our Beko DCU8230 last week still under 1 year warranty, loud bang, burning smell and trip switch flipped. Beko Engineer who called said mains suppressor capacitor had blown.

The load bang you heard was the idler pulley slamming into the frame more than likely. this is because your belt broke removing the tension suddenly. Put a new belt on and you'll be fine.

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Hi,
The cycling or operating thermostatis often the problem when a dryer runstoo hot, but there are also other things that can make it run hot also.

Here is a tip that I wrote that gives more details about why a clothes dryer will get too hot.

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What sort of smell? IS IT RUBBER? or does it smell like plastic? if it is banging it means you have bearing out and you can look at iit on line at www.appliancepros.com to see what it might be and how hard it is to fix then if you need help come back and post here and I will help you.

The burning smell usually comes from an overheating motor. Onces it heats to a certain point, it will trip the thermal switch on the motor. Motor should be getting around 11 amps. Best of luck :)

hello sir,

there must be a electric short circuit happened in ur machine, plz check all d wires, b4 replacig the blown fuse.

or else u must have connected ur machine to a wrong rated power terminal.

plz isolate ur body from the machine while fixiing this problem, n ensure that there is no leakage of current after u fix it.

thank u!!

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is drum turning and the fan ok?

I WOULD RECKEN WHAT YOU HEARD WAS THE BEARINGS IN THE MOTOR GOING AND WHEN YOU TURNED IT ON AGAIN IT SEIZED THATS WHY THERE WAS A BURNING SMELL JUST REPLACE MOTOR