Hi I'm Mat from eSpares in this video I'll be showing you how to test and
replace a heater element in this Whirlpool tumble dryer.
If your tumble dryer is no longer heating up
it may well be that the element has failed and it needs replacing.
Safety first always disconnect an appliance before carrying out any work.
The next thing I need to do is to remove the top panel of the appliance.
By undoing the three screws that hold it in place.
Next I need to remove the back panel but before I do so
I need to disconnect the mains filter from its electrical connections here.
Do be careful when releasing the electrical connections to the mains filter
as this edge of the panel can be very sharp
so I just need to press down on this hook to release the connection
and then pull on the earth here, now I'm free to unscrew the back panel.
I've just put on safety gloves before removing the final screw
just to protect my hands as I remove the back panel.
So I'm going to bring the multimeter in so I can measure the resistance of the element
to find out if it's working or not.
Normally on tumble dry elements you would have thermostats exposed at the
top or accessible at the top of the heater on this version we don't have
that so what I'm going to do is measure across the connections here the groups of connections.
So we have three wires here and two wires here.
I can tell by the thickness of the wires, and the fact that the two
are much thinner than the three leads me to believe that these two lead to a sensor.
And these three would lead to the element themselves.
Now the fact that there's three wires indicates that there are two elements in here.
Meaning that the tumble dryer has two functions a half heat function and a full heat function.
So I'll measure all the way across those, what I'll do is just disconnect the connections here.
For first measuring across the sensor.
So I'm going to switch the multimeter to a high resistance reading let's say 200,000 ohms.
And see if we get a reading on here.
Now we can see we have a resistance around twelve thousand ohms.
Next I'm going to measure across these three wires that lead to the element
because one of these wires is a common wire for both elements
I need to have a reading across all three of these wires and let me try the first one.
So one let's say to the middle wire number two that's going to set the meter
to a much lower reading because an element will have much less resistance
and we see we have a measurement there of 058.
So if I measure from wire one to wire three I should be looking for a similar reading of 58 ohms.
As you can see we have no resistance here at all which means that the element.
has failed and it needs replacing.
So the next thing I need to do is to take the heater off
by undoing the screws that hold it in place.
With the heater unscrewed simply carefully lift out.
And then I can pop my new element in its place.
And screw it in.
Now I can refit my electrical connections
and put my gloves back on before refitting the back of the tumble dryer.
So hook the bottom of the panel into place before
fitting to the top and screwing into position.
With the back panel screwed into place I can now refit the connections to the mains filter.
Before refitting the top panel.
So there we have it one new heater element tested and replaced on this Whirlpool tumble dryer.
Remember spares and accessories for all the appliances around your home
can be found on the eSpares website.
Thanks for watching.