This is my second trip to this forum with this dishwasher. Recently, the dishwasher will trip its house circuit breaker when I fully open the dishwasher door.

When the door reaches the fully open position I will see a spark at or near the right side door hinge. I stopped using the dishwasher and today (after several days of no use) I pulled off the door panel. I don't see any obvious causes for the sparking, nor can I see where it originated. I do notice some kind of sensor located in the vicinity of the right door hinge. I can't find any technical information about this dw online, but I perhaps this is a sensor to turn off the water flow if the level reaches this height (?).

After reassembling the dw, I turned on the power and opened the door - no spark. Maybe the original problem was caused by water in the door, but there is none there now.

I am going to try running it with water tomorrow, but before I do that I thought I would check here to see if there is a known problem that could cause this.

Thanks,

Jerry

Glad to hear you were able to find and fix the problem. Thank you for sharing it with us and good luck with your dishwasher.

Gene.