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Post by brummieboy on Jan 13, 2024 10:42:19 GMT
Where the feck am I suposed to screw the flexi hose into the hot water? This is a boat!
Even moving the machine out of it's cupboard involves taking the door off.
Double twat! back at ya
is it a built in cupboard one then? Posh twat! Serves you right. Where does it get it's water from now, aren't there 2 Flexi feed pipes into your cold and hot water? With those little taps at the end of the solid pipework? Washing machines normally have Flexi feed pipes to the solid copper/plastic system. Is it only cold water feed? Where will you get the hot water from? If you do have H n C pipework and need to T in, they do a washer feed fitting that can be fitted to a "live" pipe, no soldering, cutting etc. Otherwise hot water down the soap 'ole. Cold feed then just does the rinse. Unless this is a washing machine from the ark, there will only be one flexi. connected to the cold water. Leaving this in place, and making the 1st fill via the door, as long as your manual fill os hot enough to switch the thermostat, then the machine will run as normal.
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Post by Aloysius on Jan 14, 2024 9:27:57 GMT
Anyway...it's a machine, and somewhere there's a sensor which detects water temperature...maybe it's a thermostat similar to what you find in a car (although it would work in reverse since the function of the thermostat in a car is to trigger a cooling fan)...if it's electrical then all you have to do is disconnect it.
Maybe it's both things at once in which case the electrical switch that activates the heater element may be mounted on the thermostat itself, or maybe you would have to follow the wire coming out of it.
Although, having too much time in which to procrastinate, I watched a yootoobvid or two and it seems that somehow disconnecting or disabling the heater element would result in the machine deciding there is a critical fault and thus not working at all.
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Post by fi on Jan 14, 2024 9:34:35 GMT
Tried yesterday but the generator just kept going into overload even with everything turned off. Out today visiting family etc so will try to work out what the problem is on Monday.
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Post by dogless on Jan 14, 2024 9:54:00 GMT
Of no real help, sorry ... but I bought our Honda 2kw genny from a guy who'd bought it and discovered it wouldn't work all the programmes of his washing machine.
Despite trying different suggestions he ended up buying a 3.5kw genny and I got an almost new Honda at half price.
He went into great length explaining that more power than was needed was necessary at various critical times to operate programmes.
Computers huh !
Rog
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Post by Aloysius on Jan 14, 2024 10:14:27 GMT
Another possible solution would be a inverter of around the 4kw mark, although I suspect that would also require an expensive alternator to push it.
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Post by on Jan 14, 2024 10:53:26 GMT
When I tried to get a eashing machine going I had the same problems. Inverters sometimes don't work and generators seem to need to be bigger than is reasonable. It seems to be an odd one. Telemachus will know how to run a washing machine. I think he might use a travel power. fi don't you have a travel power on your Boat ?
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Post by fi on Jan 14, 2024 11:09:53 GMT
Yes I have a travel power, for some reason that has stopped working, this could be coupled to why the generator overloads as soon as I swich to landline/generator. Washing machine socket is on a seperate circuit, power is only available via travelpower/land line/generator. I'll go through things more methodically tomorrow, yesterday was a bit of a try anything to see if it works type of day....
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Post by on Jan 14, 2024 11:14:11 GMT
someone I talked to said they took the back orf the washing machine, located the heating element and cut the wire going to it. Not sure how easy this was amd it is a bit awkward to reverse but it stopped the heating element coming on.
It may not be that which is the problem.
I think it might be to do with the motor startup current requirement or something.
As it is an AC motor perhaps the timing goes wrong or something. I don't know enough about motors but there is a phase thing.
If it gets out of sync it won't work.
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Post by fi on Jan 14, 2024 11:19:14 GMT
Yesterday I didn't get as far as turning the washinhg machine on, the generator went into overload every time I selected it as the boat's power source, so fairly certain current problem is being caused by another issue.
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Post by on Jan 14, 2024 11:27:55 GMT
Is it trying to run an immersion heater and a battery charger?
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Post by fi on Jan 14, 2024 11:31:54 GMT
It is trying to charge the batteries yes. Batteries are in a poor state, have been hoping to get through the winter and replace in spring. Would charging batteries be enough to cause the overload? It is a 2kw inverter generator.
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Post by on Jan 14, 2024 11:42:30 GMT
If it is a big battery charger I think it could yes. My old Heart interface 120a charger on the barge used to change the tone of the 7kW generator. Heavy battery chargers can pull a lot of load.
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Post by fi on Jan 14, 2024 11:45:29 GMT
OK something for tomorrow, charge batteries using the engine and then try the generator - will add it to the list of things to try.
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Post by on Jan 14, 2024 11:47:59 GMT
And the immersion heater is definitely switched orf?
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Post by fi on Jan 14, 2024 11:49:38 GMT
And the immersion heater is definitely switched orf? I don't think I have one, however I have added to my list to double check...
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