Commercial Dryer Maytag SL50 - won’t start at all, sailor switch error - Maytag SL50 Commercial Dryer Repair in Milpitas, CA.

One of our regular customers called us regarding a Maytag SL50 dryer that one of our techs repaired before. This time, the dryer wouldn’t start. Since the tech has already worked with this particular dryer and was aware of its possible issues, it didn’t take him long to figure out what the problem was. One of the fuses for 20Amps on the control board burned down. Replacing it fixed the problem of dryer not starting. But our tech decided to get to the core of the issue. He connected a current meter to the power supply circuit of the control board. He noticed that when the motor was reversing, the control board would start 1-2 seconds before 28Amps current. Which means that at that moment the fuse was getting overloaded and it cause it to fail. Since for the customer it was not very important that the dryer was delicate, he decided that it would be better to turn off the reverse function in all of the drying cycles. The customer was quite excited about such an interesting lifehack.