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White Horseradish

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Dryer died again...
« on: August 03, 2014, 01:16:06 PM »
This appliance war is never-ending...

So, my dryer stopped heating up. It turns on, blows air, just no heat.

I checked the thermal breaker for continuity, it seems to conduct electricity fine. So, either the gas is not turning on, or it's not lighting. How and what would I test?
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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2014, 02:47:22 PM »
Check flame sensor first, black box with two wires on top of burner, and then the primary and secondary coils, two round solenoids on the gas valve. Lot's of youtube on how to check them. I guess I left out the ignitor. They tend to crack on dryers due to the vibration.

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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2014, 12:51:43 PM »
Yeah, check the ignitor.

I just had to replace mine a few weeks ago. On my dryer (Kenmore), there was a little plastic badge on the front panel near the lower left corner. Popping it off yielded a hole for looking inside to see if the ignitor was operating and, if so, if the burner ignited.

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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2014, 03:09:54 PM »
Yeah... I should probably just go home. I read the title and thought "When did he die the first time?"

I appear not to be firing on all cylinders this Monday.
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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2014, 07:07:04 PM »
Looks like ignitor is the winner.

My understanding is, it's basically a heating coil, and so should have continuity. It doesn't.

Looks like I'm off shopping.
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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2014, 07:28:15 PM »
Yeah should be able to ohm it out. Depending on model, you can sometimes see the crack.

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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2014, 11:21:49 AM »
Well, that wasn't it.

Replaced ignitor, no dice.

Should the gas flow for a bit, even if the ignitor isn't on? There is no gas flow that I can hear or feel.
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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2014, 11:25:29 AM »
On mine, gas doesn't flow until the ignitor is almost white hot.  YMMV.

I've also accidently cracked the new ignitor, that sucked having to buy it twice.
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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2014, 12:12:01 PM »
Does the new ignitor glow?

Ignitor should glow. Gas coil opens, if flame on second coil opens ignitor goes out.

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Re: Dryer died again...
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2014, 08:46:23 PM »
Turned out the flame sensor was bad. I swear it was good when I started checking this stuff last week...

So, new ignitor and flame sensor later, it works.
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