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A comment on Samsung Recalls 2.8M Top-Load Washing Machines. Parent comment

Re:Samsung Recalls 2.8M Top-Load Washing Machines by roseburg on Saturday November 05, 2016 @01:58AM (#12878399)
In the old mechanical brained dryers a simple set of thermostats regulated the temperature. They can be purchased for $5 on ebay to replace if they act up. A new computer brain? $100-$200
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Re:Samsung Recalls 2.8M Top-Load Washing Machines by kw71 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @10:46AM (#12879950)
If it's available, that is! I know most appliance repair techs are not going to go through this, but there are probably two components on the computer control that I can not buy off the shelf. The SMPS transformer and the cpu with masked firmware. The washingmachine had a third, the 3phase driver for the big motor, which is off the market now.

I figured the simplest dryers just had a "one heater, or two in series, or two in parallel" switch and a melting safety.

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