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I'm not an expert on washing machine-ology, so sorry if I sound like a smartass, but a quick google search confirmed my suspicions - lower end washing machines

I'm not an expert on washing machine-ology, so sorry if I sound like a smartass, but a quick google search confirmed my suspicions - lower end washing machines tend to use the same PCBs, a telltale sign being that the controls/displays tend to be in the same place. To be honest, even if you can't find a PCB replacement, a faulty PCB can be fixed by inspecting the components and/or replacing them. Usually it costs only a couple of dollars and an hour of soldering time, less if you are good at it. Microcontrollers obviously are not as easy, but as luck would have it, my old (early 2000s) machine doesn't even have one - it is driven by those rotary encoder dial thingies that move in a circle and open/close various traces to begin/end program steps.

pbronez 5y ago
> a faulty PCB can be fixed by inspecting the components and/or replacing them. Usually it costs only a couple of dollars and an hour of soldering time, less if you are good at it. That's a pretty steep DIY requirement. Wonder how robust the market is for these kinds of repair skills. Hard to know when you have a problem like this, who to call about it, and how much it'll cost to fix.
- torginus 5y ago
  I mean yeah. But hunting down a skilled repairman as you said, or browsing for a new machine that fits in the exact same place as the old one, and then wrestling with that hulking beast is no easy task either.
IshKebab 5y ago
> even if you can't find a PCB replacement, a faulty PCB can be fixed by inspecting the components and/or replacing them Yeah right. Maybe if you're lucky or it's all low power stuff but circuits aren't generally designed to isolate failures. If one thing fails it will often cause other components to fail invisibly. And yes I have tried it. The main transistor on an amplifier I had blew. Replaced it. Still doesn't work.

pbronez 5y ago

> a faulty PCB can be fixed by inspecting the components and/or replacing them. Usually it costs only a couple of dollars and an hour of soldering time, less if you are good at it. That's a pretty steep DIY requirement. Wonder how robust the market is for these kinds of repair skills. Hard to know when you have a problem like this, who to call about it, and how much it'll cost to fix.

torginus 5y ago
I mean yeah. But hunting down a skilled repairman as you said, or browsing for a new machine that fits in the exact same place as the old one, and then wrestling with that hulking beast is no easy task either.

IshKebab 5y ago

> even if you can't find a PCB replacement, a faulty PCB can be fixed by inspecting the components and/or replacing them Yeah right. Maybe if you're lucky or it's all low power stuff but circuits aren't generally designed to isolate failures. If one thing fails it will often cause other components to fail invisibly. And yes I have tried it. The main transistor on an amplifier I had blew. Replaced it. Still doesn't work.