It took most of the weekend, but "hey!", mission accomplished. Icame down Friday morning around 3:00am to get on the computer. For some weird reason, Wife came home from work and convinced me to go upstairs to our bedroom and before I knew it, I was in that slow sleepy mode of looking at porn/sleeping phase from about 8:00pm until I got up at 3:00am. We just never go to bed that early, but she had gone to work, so I understood that she was tired. Anyways, coming down, I run into Boy at the stairs and he tells me like I'm the Super "just so you know, the dryer stopped working..." "Did you overfill it or something?" I asked. He was all "nah, I was just running a small load and it made a weird noise and then stopped working." "Awesome."
I started looking at Best Buy for prices on dryers, thinking that is what we were going to be doing Friday during the day. Maybe if not for Covid-19, we really don't want to leave the house for stupid shit. I started trying to look for solutions and I remembered YouTube is great with the do it yourself videos. The first one dealing with an F40 code on our style of dryer had a problem at the circuit board and that looked like more than I could handle. I liked the 2nd solution, replacing a faulty fuse. There were like 3-4 videos labeling this a fix for F40 code, so I figured this is my real solution. I opened up the dryer after seeing how they did it (it's a little tricky without help). It was as they said pretty dirty, so I used the vacuum and cleaned up so much lint and dirt and junk from inside the machine. I took off a couple more parts and found the fuse on the bottom. I ordered the part, waited a day to get the new one, even though I tested it like they said and it seemed to be fine (did a continuity test and it beeped like it should have according to another video). I replaced it with the new part and got nothing. By this time, I opened up the top where the circuit board was at and found the test booklet to check for this and that. It showed another fuse, a thermistor, close tot he fuse, so I took it off and tested it. It tested fine, so I wasn't going to order another one. I had been talking to Wife and we had pretty much decided to go to Lowe's and look at a new dryer when I thought about tearing up the circuit board. The one the guy had was rough looking and it had an ugly burn mark on the back. My circuit board looked pristine and new. I still took it apart and "Wow, there it was!" From the back, it looked exactly like his, a big ole burn mark on the plastic and a hole in the circuit board. The guy in the first video soldered a small piece of metal wire to establish a connection, so I told Boy, who has done this a lot more than me to get his solder gun and fix it for me. He had it going within a couple minutes, I had already shown him where to where to make the connection and viola! We are back in action.
I don't know how long this fix will last, but I am at least on the second load right now, so I can say I got a little more use out of it. Hopefully, the fix keeps us going a couple more years. Replacing the circuit board is a mixed bag of thoughts. The part looks to cost about $180. That dryer was a high end $1200 unit with misting capabilities to remove wrinkles and other fancy stuff, but like the washer we replaced with a $270 unit, the cheap version is working just as well (and we have never really used the fancy wrinkle remover options). I don't think I will be buying high priced machines like that anymore, the next dryer will be under $400.
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