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Miele washing machine; dashes appear in display and washer will not work
3 dashes (or bars) in our Miele W1119 washer display. Beeping. All lights are off and machine is not working. Miele service call: the light bulb in the drum was loose! He pushed it back in and the machine worked fine again. This solution is nowhere to be found. Only in the service manual according to the service tech.
Waterproof system activated - close the stopcock
The cover to the filter plug is hinged at the bottom and when horizontally open, it acts as a chute for the water in the unscrewed filter plug. If you completely remove the cover to access the filter plug, the water from the filter plug dribbles under the machine, and sets off the water leak sensor.
Remedy: as already advised. turn off machine. Tip forward to allow water to run away. Turn on machine.
Washing light flashes when in drying cycle. What does this mean?
It means the NTC sensor reading is not what is expected. This is my experience when it happened on my machine when for some reason (still not known) the thermal cutout on the dryer tripped. This could have been due to an uneven load causing excessive shaking as I recall doing a towel wash recently.The next time a drying cycle was done there was no heat to the drum and the machine thinks there may be a fault with the NTC senser that reads the temperature of the drum, as its not reading as high as it would normally. This causes it to flash the Washing light, and store an F3 error code in memory.As this code relates to the temperature sensor the machine can't trust it to regulate the wash temperature so it effectively disables the water heater. The next wash cycle will be too cold. Again the machine will see the unexpected temperature and flash the Washing light.In my case the code is F3 as the sensor isn't short (F1) or open (F2) just reading an unexpected value (F3).At this stage this looks like a heater fault but I seem to be lucky because there is no fault with the NTC sensor (it correctly measures 13KOhms at room temperature (24 degrees)), no fault with the heater element (reads about 24 Ohms), no fault with the heater relay and no obvious problem with the control board. If any of these are faulty they would need to be replaced. I don't know anything about the thermal breaker at this point. It seems like the control board might be faulty because it doesn't even try to turn on the water heater relay, but I think it behaves this way as a safety measure because it has a temperature sensor related fault stored and so it would be unsafe to turn on the heater. There is no obvious way of seeing the error code, I wonder if a number of these control boards have been replaced when they only required the code cleared.To Read/Clear the error code, you go to service mode:( ) Turn off machine( ) both dials to 12 o'clock( ) Close door( ) press and hold Soak and Water Plus buttons ( ) Power on machine( ) Release buttons when the LEDs on the right wake up.Now turn the Washing knob anti-clockwise one step to Rinse out fluff position. If the display shows "c" then there are no faults (ie 'c'orrect) otherwise it shows F, then the code. Turn off the machine now to clear it. Then go back into service mode and verify there are no faults (c)The machine is now caplable of washing, but it failed again when asked to dry. After finding and resetting the thermal cutout breaker at the top of the machine and clearing the code again, it now drys properly as well..If the breaker trips again (try it with extra dry setting perhaps) maybe need to replace it, and/or defluff the dryer? It seems OK so far.
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