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Dishwasher Recommendations (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So the "fails to complete a cycle without erroring out" rate finally seems to have reached 100%, on the Samsung dishwasher that came with the house.

What do I need to know when picking a new one, and/or what models do y'all recommend?

I'll take recommendations about how to fix the current one too, I guess, but I already got advice from an appliance repair man, who basically said "it would need a new control board, I.E. ditch it." The error code it's giving is supposedly about insufficient water or water flow, but the water feed is completely fine, as far as I can tell.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it giving an error code, or just glitching out? I just repaired my Samsung control board. It would glitch out (display goes nuts, relays clicking). I found that there was cracked solder joints on the main board relays. I resoldered them and it's totally fixed now. I think the bad connection causes the relays to pulse which creates back-emf that glitches the display. Getting the board out of the potting compound is annoying and messy, but otherwise it was an easy fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It fails with a pretty specific blinky-light error code, 10-20 minutes into a cycle.

I'm anbelectronics engineer myself, so I've got no issue repairing any visible damage on the control board, if there is any.