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I snipped the two wires that attached to the ld switch and tied them together.
Was that incorrect. I thought hat would complete the circuit
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When you snip the two wires, you now have four wire ends. Connect the two ends that go into the wire harness together, not the two ends that actually go to the lid switch.
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I can get a meter tomorrow. What should I check?
Ps the pre agitate check is no longer happening
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Need to check for 120 volts AC with one lead of the multimeter always on the white/red wire of the leftmost connector. Place the meter probe up into the bottom of the connector with the wire making sure you have contact with the metal pin. You should have 120 volts AC on the orange wire and the red/black wire of the same connector. When the washer should be in high speed agitate mode, normal cycle, on the rightmost connector, you should have 120 volts AC on the blue wire and the violet/white wire. For low speed agitate, the white and violet/white wire. For high speed spin, the blue and red wires and for low speed spin, the white and red wires.
Do not touch the motor case during testing as it is not grounded.
Reconnect your lid switch and operate it a couple times. Make sure there are no error codes flashing on the inverter. The inverter monitors lid openings and if you run two complete cycles without it seeing the lid open, it will shut down the motor and initiate an error code.
To reset and clear error codes, unplug the washer for at least 30 seconds, plug back in and open/close the lid at least 6 times within 12 seconds.
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Going to try again now. Does it matter which lead I use on the red/white wire?
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No, it doesn't, you didn't follow my directions.
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Ok. I'm not 100% sure I did this correctly.
With the red lead in with the red/white wire on the far left connector I seem to have gotten less than 120 V from the red/black and orange wires - it looked to be around 80V
The other wires seemed to be getting 120V in the various cycles.
Does that mean anything?
Thanks for helping
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I ran the tests again with the red lead in the black/red wire.
The black lead on the orange and red/black wires was reading 0.
The black lead on the far right connector during the first agitate stage was reading th estate voltage on all the wires.
I am unfamiliar with the multimeter but I have an analog meter on a 125 DCV setting and the needle was all the way up.
Thanks for your patience!
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I'm not having much confidence in the information your giving me nor in your abilities to do the electrical troubleshooting. This is AC voltage were measuring here, not DC. It would be very simple for me to determine whether this is a motor issue, timer issue or wiring issue by taking some AC voltage measurements but I'm very experienced at it and you basically have no experience, so I really can't help you any further. You could try the shotgun approach by simply replacing the motor and/or timer in hopes it's one or the other but it may end up being a wiring/connection issue.
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Hi Eric,
I am going have someone more expierenced with electrical troubleshooting come over tonight and take the measurements on the various wires. i will post the results afterwards.
I have never used a mulitmeter before. I would rather diagnose the problem rather than buy the motor and have that not be the issue.
Thanks again for your help.
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