Whirlpool Estate Washer TAWB600PQ0

[Tim M]

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Dear Friends,

Barked up the wrong tree the first time out on this one.

  The washer seems to spin OK.  Will Agitate OK on Heavy or Regular, but set on Light (or advancing to Light), it sometimes works and sometimes not.  When it does work, only the top part of the agitator moves, and fairly gently.  The gentle cycle is also intermitent.  It seems like the later part of the rinse cycle is intermittent at too.  I can't remember what happened on permanent press.

  When it was intermitent it would start up in those wash sections, though I never let it advance to them until later, when it never worked at all.

  Not working means it doesn't do a thing.  No buzzing, no humming that I can hear from the outside anyway.

  Thought it was originally the timer, but the new timer says I jumped to conclusions without carefully testing.  So, from as much as I can understand from the cycle diagram, I'm guessing that it is either the low speed winding is off or the centrifugal switch.  Am I on the right track here?  Apparently I've lost a great writeup on testing the motor and switch.

[appl.tech.29501]

Do you have a speed selector switch or does the timer control the speeds?

[Tim M]

The timer controls the speeds. The Normal section has Heavy, Regular and Light. There is a permanent press section. And a gentle section, all in the timer.

[appl.tech.29501]

The heavy , reg., and light is nothing more than the length of time it washes like 15 min., 10, 6....however you machine may go into a gentle or cool down agitation for the last 6 min. Now that you have already replace the timer there is nothing left to replace but the motor....but before you do you need to examine the wire harness connector at the motor...check each wire especially the red one....if all the wires check out and it spins ok with the lid closed then you need a motor

You stated that in the light cycle only the top of the agitator turned....need to check that again, that's impossible if the agitation works in the reg. Cycle.

[Tim M]

Here is the wiring diagram:

http://www.servicematters.com/docs/wiring/Wiring%20Sheet%20-%208557228.pdf

It does seem that the gentle and light wash both are on the low motor.  Can you check that?  Does this say that when I use cold water it behaves differently in perm press and regular?  If so, that could explain the intermitent behaviour.

Now how could I have come to the conclusion that it is the motor and not the centrifugal switch?

[Tim M]

[user=28611]Tim M[/user] wrote:

Now how could I have come to the conclusion that it is the motor and not the centrifugal switch?

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OK, as I look at the switch more closely on the wiring diagram, I see that if it WERE a problem with the switch, it would either be stuck in high speed with the Start winding still engaged, or it wouldn't run at all.  I hadn't noticed that the Low winding, clicks over to High when the Start is engaged.

So, is that right.  Also I don't see that the temperature switch makes any difference in how the cyles run on the wiring diagram, but what is the interval cycle chart trying to say by showing differnt timer settings with cold selected?