My start button started to act weird a couple days ago. I had to kind of play with the button to get it to start and now it won’t work at all. I know it’s either the control panel or the touch pad itself. I’m thinking it’s the touch pad since all the other buttons work expect the start and cancel button. I just wanted some thoughts on this.
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Here is a link to the tech sheet.
It is too big to be able to upload it to this site so I have had to use another site.
Download MDB7609.pdf
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Then use the light grey Download button.
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The usual way to check the panel is to use a meter on the control pane pinouts to check the individual keys.
Note that the control panel is the keypad.
The other part is the control board (electronic control).
I do agree with you that in your case the control panel is the most likely culprit as playing with the button will start it.