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I recently (3 months ago) bought a brand new dryer as this exact problem happened to my old one - turned on but just hummed and never rotated. Now it’s happened again to my brand new model. What could be causing capacitors to go bad? Do I have a wiring problem or just sh1t luck?
@alexanderkhulme1 If it new get it fixed under warranty. If it is proven that the capacitor was the problem then it could have been just a faulty capacitor and you were unlucky but this would be rare as nowadays electrical components are quite good and robust and not prone to failure as some were in the past. Can you check the value of the voltage supply at the outlet that the dryer is connected to? Check your power supplier’s website to see what it shows regarding this. It may depend on your location but for example, where I am the mains power supply is guaranteed to be within +/-5% of the nominal supply voltage i.e. nominal mains supply is 240V AC so it is between 228V - 252V AC. My house supply is 246V AC so I am within the specs. The appliance manufacturers should be aware of this and would design their products accordingly to cater for it. If it is higher than the specs as shown by your supplier this may be one reason for the failure although you would think that your other electrical devices, appliances etc would experience problems also. Can you connect the dryer onto a different power circuit from the meter box just to eliminate the particular feed that it is on?
