I suppose we should be greatfull that we’ve gotten 5.5 years out of this before this issue. Symptoms:
Failed running a load.
Unpluged and replugged in all connections at the CCU; MCU and Motor.
Ran an empty Drain/Spin cycle and cycle completed. Re-ran a normal Whites Load got to Spin cycle with no errors. Washer went into Spin cycle and heard Drain pump running, drum not spinning after a bit time left on the cycle started flashing, heard pump cycle again and drum didn’t spin time left lite solid for a a few seconds and started flashing again, pump ceased, cycled like that again and got F06 error code.
I’m thinking MCU or Motor or both; wish I could aford to just replace both, but would love a more definitive suggestion on what part to buy.
Any suggestions; since the unit made it past the rinse/spin cycle with extra rinse setting all the way to spin but never started to spin the drum kind of sounds like it’s heat related failure on some component.
Many thanks - you all provide a valuable service to people needing help from reading the forums trying to get answers here.
Ran multiple empty load cycles for testing: from dead cold unpluged overnight; this morning the Heavy Duty Cycle made it all the way through to the end properly - I believe the cycle is 80 mins long (for testing - empty no laundry in the tub).
Started another cycle right after -> Whitest Whites which apear to be 60 mins long and it failed 5 mins into the cycle with F06. The motor does not appear to be overly warm to the touch when the cycle fails. Like the other cycles that died with an F06 error, it looks like the cycle dies as its trying to start the tub spinning at that point in the cycle and the tub never starts to turn when it fails witht he error.
Anyone have insight into this as to what part might fix this?
When you spin the basket by hand, do you hear bearing noises? If so, you have bad bearings that provide a lot of friction with a heavy load. Small loads will not overload the motor, but large ones will. It may take a while till the motor cools down, then it will run normally.