Serious question, did anyone else learn the hard way about checking the main control board for a specific voltage before replacing the motor?

I spent nearly two hours on a Samsung dryer in a mobile home park yesterday before a quick call to a mentor made me realize I'd been assuming motor failure for years without first confirming the 120VAC signal from the board was actually present at the connector.

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masontorres4d ago

Man, I read a forum post about this exact thing last month. Some guy wrote a whole rant about how he blew three good motors before he learned to check the board output first. He called it "voltage ghosting" where the board looks fine but just stops sending the signal. It's crazy how one missed step can send you down such a wrong path for hours. That story stuck with me, so now I always grab the meter before I even touch the motor.

tessa_hill864d ago

Ugh that's the worst, when you skip a basic step and waste a ton of time. Feels like half of life's problems are from assuming instead of checking the simple thing first.