[stevestr]

Hi Everyone,

I have an electric Whirlpool Senseon dryer that's 6 years old. In the past 6 months the dryer has been taking much longer to dry. I have an appliance warranty through our local utility. I've made a call and they have dispatched one of their contract appliance repair contractors to look at the problem.

The repairman has replaced the thermistor and cleaned out the exhaust so all of the lint has been removed. It still continued to take a long time to dry. On his next visit, he suggested that the outlet is bad because he couldn't get 240 volts. An electrician replaced the outlet and got 240 volts and the dryer still doesn't dry as quickly as it should. The repairman came back again. He said the dryer still wasn't getting 240 volts. He checked the dryer side of the cord and not the outlet side. He decided to pull the plug from the outlet and expand the prongs just to see if he could get a better connection. That simple fix got 240 volts on the dryer side of the cord. The repairman stayed and tested the dryer (empty) and found that the dryer cycled correctly and provided the appropriate amount of heat through the exhaust. But it is still not drying very well. The repairman tried to blame the poor performance on the age of the dryer (6 years old!) and I refuse to accept that a 6 year old dryer is going bad.

Can anyone suggest another fix to try for this dryer?

Thanks,

Steve

[andrewcocke]

Now we know the dryer is free of lint, which would have been my first check. We can also rule out the thermistor. And improper voltage.

Now its just down to making sure everything is working. Check the door gasket, make sure the only way air can enter the drum while its running is through the element. This insures that all ai that enters the drum will be heated.

You will want to check the element, thermostat, and high limit for proper operation.

Once you check all that, and still have a problem, its time to start using your imagination. For example, I once beat my head against the wall on a rotisseire oven, darned thing wouldlnt cook chickens. All the elements were working, changed thermostats, and high limits, checked blowers, cleaned blower chambers out. Even stuck my own temp probe in there, came right up to 375 like it should. It blew my mind. Actually told the customer her oven seemed to be in somekind of antichicken cooling vortex (as a joke).

Changed the blowers, turns out they were heating up and not working intermittenly after so long. Problem solved.