Dishwasher plug hot

[Super_Paulie]

Installing my kitchen today, noticed a smell of "heat". Traced it to the dishwasher (7 yeah old) plug, which was red hot and pliable. Opened it up and the fuse holder was melted.

 

So I cut the plug off, new one on, tried again. Red hot again. 

 

Opened up the socket, nothing to see, looked normal. 

 

Ran it again from a different socket, red hot again. 

 

Never noticed it before, do these just run hot, seems abnormal. Should I just bite the bullet and bin it off, wasn't expensive. Just took delivery today of all my Neff ovens, they were expensive 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Mr Punter]

The dishwasher is faulty and a fire hazard if you don't fix it.

[MikeGrahamT21]

Call someone in to repair it?

 

Sounds like something is drawing too much current, odds are on for the heating element, most dishwashers I think from memory have these as part of the pump, so you would be replacing the unit as a whole.

 

doubt it’ll be the PCB but check capacitors for any swelling/leakage

[Nickfromwales]

House fires are unpleasant, and that's if you're home to put it out....

 

Get rid, buy a better one. A molten plug will just allow a catastrophic failure to occur.

 

I bought a used TD and put it in the upstairs play room, and then the smoke detectors started wailing a few days later. Smoke billowing out, but turned out just to be the cap frying. Flung it immediately and went out and bought a brand new bosch after sitting down and considering the consequences of losing everything we own. (expletive deleted) that!!!

[Super_Paulie]

Sod it, everything else is new in here so what's another 500 notes. 

 

Cheers guys, unplugged and ready to go to dishy heaven.

[Nickfromwales]

52 minutes ago, Super_Paulie said:

everything else is new in here so what's another 500 notes

Money well spent, you'd prob spend half that on some BS repair and then never be able to take your eye off it every time you used it.

[Pocster]

I liked my post - but it’s gone 😔

[marshian]

5 hours ago, Pocster said:

I liked my post - but it’s gone 😔

I laughed but it was a little risky 😉 Probably one for Off Topic and even then it was a little edgy

[Pocster]

Just now, marshian said:

I laughed but it was a little risky 😉 Probably one for Off Topic and even then it was a little edgy

Glad someone got the humour !

[Nickfromwales]

51 minutes ago, Pocster said:

Glad someone got the humour !

You’re getting close to having your muzzle back on again.

 

Off topic section is for you, to be honest we should have just called it Pocsters Folly.