Hello All,
I acquired a decent used electric dryer recently that I just couldn't pass up on. It's an older model made by "Gibson". It has been performing perfectly.
The only drawback to the appliance was the buzzer sound when the cycle is complete. It will make you jump out of your skin! It's loud, it's long and it sounds twice at the end of a cycle.
I couldn't take it anymore and did the usual searches to disable the buzzer. (It has no off selector switch for the alert).
Upon opening the top of the dryer where all the electronics live, I discovered the biggest "mouse house" I have ever found! It fill my vacuum up three times.
I went on to identify the buzzer and trace the wiring. Which I had successfully unplugged, covered the wire with electrical tape and tucked it safely out of the way.
I ran the dryer through a few short cycles and the buzzer no longer gave me a heart attack.
All is good. .....right?
Back to the mouse house,... I noticed a short bare wire dangling off the timer switch. The coating had been munched on by the tenents. I found what appeared to be the other end of the wire, just a connecter with no wire remaining on it, but plugged into the time board also. Both terminals are blade terminals with heat shrink coating them.
A genius deduction would be, those two ends, need a new section of wire and terminals and plugged back in.
Even though the dryer is working great, these wires must be relative to a setting I just haven't used yet, but could need in the future.
I fab the new jumper wire, plug it in, set the timer and press the start button.
I get this very loud "BUZZ!!!" sound from the wiring panel, the dryer starts, but shuts off immediately. I then notice a light wisp of smoke from somewhere.
I immediately removed my new wire, nothing's melted or hot (?) I try to restart the dryer as it's now back to the way it was before I attempted the bald wire repair.
I got nothing, the dryer will not start now.
( Btw, the buzzer wiring fix is ill-relevant at this point, as I had tested and concluded that fix was good before moving onto the unknown mouse damaged wires).
The circuit breaker did not trip during the attempted. I have power to the wall outlet. But nothing when I try to start the dryer. The interior light for the drum doesn't even light up when I open the door.
The paper wiring diagram stored in the appliance was pretty much destroyed by the mice. I did find a schematic on line.
This is acting like this old dryer has an internal circuit breaker, but I don't see one on the schematic. I do see a thermal coupler, but I'm thinking thats relative to the heating element maybe (?). I mean, no power, not even to the lightbulb,... I'm not an electrician, but I've trinkered enough over the years and paid my dues by learning the hard way at times, and this was so cut-and-dry, and that stripped wire and two chewed off blade connections were so obvious, the only choice it could have been.
Any ideas?
Sorry so long. Thanks for reading.
I acquired a decent used electric dryer recently that I just couldn't pass up on. It's an older model made by "Gibson". It has been performing perfectly.
The only drawback to the appliance was the buzzer sound when the cycle is complete. It will make you jump out of your skin! It's loud, it's long and it sounds twice at the end of a cycle.
I couldn't take it anymore and did the usual searches to disable the buzzer. (It has no off selector switch for the alert).
Upon opening the top of the dryer where all the electronics live, I discovered the biggest "mouse house" I have ever found! It fill my vacuum up three times.
I went on to identify the buzzer and trace the wiring. Which I had successfully unplugged, covered the wire with electrical tape and tucked it safely out of the way.
I ran the dryer through a few short cycles and the buzzer no longer gave me a heart attack.
All is good. .....right?
Back to the mouse house,... I noticed a short bare wire dangling off the timer switch. The coating had been munched on by the tenents. I found what appeared to be the other end of the wire, just a connecter with no wire remaining on it, but plugged into the time board also. Both terminals are blade terminals with heat shrink coating them.
A genius deduction would be, those two ends, need a new section of wire and terminals and plugged back in.
Even though the dryer is working great, these wires must be relative to a setting I just haven't used yet, but could need in the future.
I fab the new jumper wire, plug it in, set the timer and press the start button.
I get this very loud "BUZZ!!!" sound from the wiring panel, the dryer starts, but shuts off immediately. I then notice a light wisp of smoke from somewhere.
I immediately removed my new wire, nothing's melted or hot (?) I try to restart the dryer as it's now back to the way it was before I attempted the bald wire repair.
I got nothing, the dryer will not start now.
( Btw, the buzzer wiring fix is ill-relevant at this point, as I had tested and concluded that fix was good before moving onto the unknown mouse damaged wires).
The circuit breaker did not trip during the attempted. I have power to the wall outlet. But nothing when I try to start the dryer. The interior light for the drum doesn't even light up when I open the door.
The paper wiring diagram stored in the appliance was pretty much destroyed by the mice. I did find a schematic on line.
This is acting like this old dryer has an internal circuit breaker, but I don't see one on the schematic. I do see a thermal coupler, but I'm thinking thats relative to the heating element maybe (?). I mean, no power, not even to the lightbulb,... I'm not an electrician, but I've trinkered enough over the years and paid my dues by learning the hard way at times, and this was so cut-and-dry, and that stripped wire and two chewed off blade connections were so obvious, the only choice it could have been.
Any ideas?
Sorry so long. Thanks for reading.
