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boik

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Bit of a long shot, but there's all sorts of experts and accumulated knowledge on here, so here goes.....

Daughter has a Beko washing machine. Has been working fine, suddenly the motor/drum will only do one or two revolutions and then stops, but carries on with the rest of the cycle. At each point in the cycle where the drum should spin, it only does one or two turns and then carries and and the cycle completes. There is no display to show any error codes. Obviously nothing is washed properly.

I've replaced the motor brushes, and cleaned (and removed 2 hair grips from) the pump. Belt is fine and I can't hear any obvious bearing noise. Water comes in to the right level and stops, and gets pumped out when it should do.

Anyone got any experience of this sort of problem? She's not got much money so replacement is not really an option.

Cheers.
 


Gazwag

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Not much help other than a bounce but there is definitely somebody on here that deals in washing machines but I cannot remember who
 




Bold Seagull

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@Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee is the resident appliance expert. Been round and sorted ours before.
 








peterward

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Nov 11, 2009
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Bit of a long shot, but there's all sorts of experts and accumulated knowledge on here, so here goes.....

Daughter has a Beko washing machine. Has been working fine, suddenly the motor/drum will only do one or two revolutions and then stops, but carries on with the rest of the cycle. At each point in the cycle where the drum should spin, it only does one or two turns and then carries and and the cycle completes. There is no display to show any error codes. Obviously nothing is washed properly.

I've replaced the motor brushes, and cleaned (and removed 2 hair grips from) the pump. Belt is fine and I can't hear any obvious bearing noise. Water comes in to the right level and stops, and gets pumped out when it should do.

Anyone got any experience of this sort of problem? She's not got much money so replacement is not really an option.

Cheers.

not exactly your situation, however.... ive got a Beko and something similar happened and i had never in my life before fixed a washing machine but managed to do it...... it would fill up normally and then stop mid cycle, at first it emptied water, then one time it didnt even do that (no error code) and i had to manually drain it. called some crowd who wanted £140 to fix it (for a £250 machine!), so looked online for solutions, i whipped out the multimeter i'd bought on amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Multimeters-Proster-Multimeter-Voltmeter-Backlight/dp/B01EV44V5A/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1467621479&sr=8-4&keywords=multimeter downloaded the manual for my model and took off the top and back of machine and then watched a few videos to test resistance on individual components in washing machine - multimeter (ohms setting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jXehEzSBF0

if you have a duff component you should find it with the multimeter

i went to the motor, circuit board and tested across every mechanical thing that had wires, and finally i found one that had no resistance reading on the multimeter, it was something called the EMI supressor filter, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Beko-WMC7120W-Washing-Machine-Suppressor-EMI-Filter-DNF06-T-JGCAA-2827980500-/172239775454?hash=item281a4a66de
it was near to where the main power lead from the wall enters into the back of the machine, at top right side and back of machine (when facing machine). I took it off and searched for same model and ebay sells recons for £12, still wasnt 100% sure of what i was doing or if changing would fix machine but it was only component with no resistance from multimeter i'd found. Though a £12 punt was better than £140 repair or £250 for a new machine, so bought it. Took 2 mins to replace when it arrived, and it worked, machine been running normally again since Feb 2016.

I dont have a clue as to the specgif problem you have, but a multimeter across the mechanical parts and circuitry should find a duff component with no resistance reading..... good luck
 


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Hmmm - that's a cut'n'paste too. Weird.
 




Westdene Seagull

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Bit of a long shot, but there's all sorts of experts and accumulated knowledge on here, so here goes.....

Daughter has a Beko washing machine. Has been working fine, suddenly the motor/drum will only do one or two revolutions and then stops, but carries on with the rest of the cycle. At each point in the cycle where the drum should spin, it only does one or two turns and then carries and and the cycle completes. There is no display to show any error codes. Obviously nothing is washed properly.

I've replaced the motor brushes, and cleaned (and removed 2 hair grips from) the pump. Belt is fine and I can't hear any obvious bearing noise. Water comes in to the right level and stops, and gets pumped out when it should do.

Anyone got any experience of this sort of problem? She's not got much money so replacement is not really an option.

Cheers.

Just PM'd you the details of an engineer [MENTION=342]cardboard[/MENTION] recommended to me and was really good at fixing my machine.
 


Arthritic Toe

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Nov 25, 2005
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Swindon
not exactly your situation, however.... ive got a Beko and something similar happened and i had never in my life before fixed a washing machine but managed to do it...... it would fill up normally and then stop mid cycle, at first it emptied water, then one time it didnt even do that (no error code) and i had to manually drain it. called some crowd who wanted £140 to fix it (for a £250 machine!), so looked online for solutions, i whipped out the multimeter i'd bought on amazon
...
it was near to where the main power lead from the wall enters into the back of the machine, at top right side and back of machine (when facing machine). I took it off and searched for same model and ebay sells recons for £12, still wasnt 100% sure of what i was doing or if changing would fix machine but it was only component with no resistance from multimeter i'd found. Though a £12 punt was better than £140 repair or £250 for a new machine, so bought it. Took 2 mins to replace when it arrived, and it worked, machine been running normally again since Feb 2016.

I dont have a clue as to the specgif problem you have, but a multimeter across the mechanical parts and circuitry should find a duff component with no resistance reading..... good luck
Blimey thats clever. When you say 'no resistance', do you mean it shows no reading - or full scale reading?
 


boik

Well-known member
Thanks for all of your replies people. Daughter is over in Aldershot which complicates things a bit. I'll see if I can find a manual online and check a few more components out.

Cheers guys.
 








Easy 10

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Not me, sorry. I know eff all about this sort of thing. Big Dave's your man.

Oops.
Could've sworn it was you who had the "I'm 'ard Bruce Lee" thing under his username.

Its BUGGING me now
 






hans kraay fan club

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I think that the tagging system doesn't like the ' in @Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee
 


Easy 10

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Nope, it's big Dave, but tagging him doesn't seem to work.

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SIMMO SAYS

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Jul 31, 2012
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I had a Beko dishwasher that packed up in less than a month - Turkish made I believe.
Have avoided their products ever since.
You do normally get what you pay for on most goods but white goods are always pot luck.
 






Muhammed - I’m hard - Bruce Lee

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Bit far for me to go I'm afraid, how competent are you with a meter?
All I can suggest, is to measure the motor windings and tacho from the motor block.
Trial and error without seeing the motor but the easiest way is remove it and trace the wires. You've already changed the carbons so that should rule that out. 2 more windings should go to a coil at the end of the motor, that's the tacho. It should measure anywhere between 80 and 200 ohms on the resistance setting. Depending on what motor it is, there should be either 2 or 3 other wires depending on whether your motor has a tapped field connection or not. Across either 2 of these, you should get 1.5 - 3 ohms.
If they all check out, it'll be the pcb or speed control unit. Can't really check those apart from putting a 9 volt supply across the motor relay connections and seeing if you can hear them clicking on and off. If it's motor windings or pcb, it's not really worth paying out for spare parts unfortunately
 



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