Appliance Repair Wisdom for the Ages

Friday, April 29, 2005

GE is getting sloppy with the documentation on its sorry-ass appliances. In this case, it's a GE Triton XL dishwasher that tripped the circuit breaker (model number GSD6600G00BB). This is one of those abortion-that-lived dishwashers with the over-priced, unreliable electronic control boards. Turns out the problem was that an undocumented surge suppressor in the water inlet valve circuit had shorted-- this surge suppressor was not shown on the wiring diagram! How sloppy is that? Well, that's GE fer ya.

And, here's a tip: putting electronic controls in wet appliances is a great recipe for selling lots of replacement control boards.

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