My dishes have been coming out wet ever since flushing my water heater; my wife started a dishwasher load without telling me while I was in the middle of that project so I’m guessing it ran dry and fucked up the heating element.
I haven’t noticed any issues draining. The dishes are coming out clean but wet. I’ve already run a reset on the board in case there was a fault that wasn’t clearing or something. So now the most likely culprit is a dead element or maybe the switch for it?
I’ve acquired a new heating element and I’m planning on replacing it in hopes of getting dry dishes again today. Any tips beyond what a tutorial on YouTube would already bring up? Open the breaker, close the water valve, have a towel handy for any water that comes out of connections I’m breaking, etc. But maybe you know of some challenges in the process and a sort of life hack to make them easy?
Anecdotal, but I was about to order a heating element for mine and decided to pull the unit out and test the resistance with a multimeter. It tested good, so I thought oh well, maybe time to upgrade the dishwasher with a new one. I also messed around with the little round switch thing in line with the heating wires. I think it’s some sort of thermostat or overheating protection. Just by fiddling around with the wires and stuff, it magically started working again.
I’ve fixed a dishwasher by taking all the stuff apart and putting it back together again. No idea what I did. Obviously loosened something up along the way.