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Doesn't spin the drum in a Samsung washing machine

does not spin the drum in a Samsung typewriterIf the Samsung brand washing machine does not spin the drum, this does not mean that it is broken. The options may be different, but the difficulty is that you have to analyze all these possible options, determine the most likely, and then deliberately climb into the car to carry out repairs. In this publication, we tried to describe all the possible causes of breakdowns that lead to a situation where the drum stops spinning. We hope you find this information useful!

What could happen?

If the Samsung machine suddenly suddenly stopped spinning the drum, you don’t need to panic. First of all, turn off the “home assistant” so as not to aggravate the situation, and then start inspecting the “rebellious” equipment. Even before turning off the washing machine, you need to look at its display and see if there are any signs on it. Perhaps the washing machine itself tells you what happened to it.

If there is nothing like this, then you need to open the hatch, pull out most of the things and start the washer again. In general, all breakdowns leading to the fact that the Samsung brand washing machine stops spinning the drum can be conditionally divided into two groups: simple household and complex technical. Domestic reasons often arise due to the fault of the user, but far from always the user himself can be eliminated.

  • Clogged drain hose or nozzle.the drum does not spin
  • A solid foreign object has fallen into the tank.
  • Overload of laundry.

The list of complex technical breakdowns is longer, but these breakdowns are generally not critical, and in some cases they can be eliminated with your own hands without the help of a professional, but you still need to listen to the opinion of a specialist in this regard. These are the reasons.

  1. The drive belt has stretched and loosened.
  2. The drive belt has flown.
  3. The belt is torn.
  4. The carbon brushes of the commutator engine were erased.
  5. Engine lamellas were worn out.
  6. Break the engine winding.
  7. Engine coil burned out.

Important! If your model of a Samsung washing machine has an inverter motor, then the problems associated with brushes, windings and lamellas can be discarded, as well as breakdowns with a belt, since such a technique does not have a drive belt.

Household reasons

Modern washing machines are very sensitive to various kinds of malfunctions, even small ones. Inside this technique there are many sensors that, at the slightest deviation from the norm, can stop the rotation of the drum of the "home assistant". If the display of the Samsung washing machine does not show anything and the drum does not spin, you must do the following.

  • We take out most of the laundry from the drum of the Samsung washing machine and restart the washing program. Perhaps you just overloaded the washer with things. If the drum still stands still, go to the next step.
  • We de-energize the Samsung washing machine and try to open the hatch. If the hatch does not open, look inside. Saw inside the water - 95% of the problem is a blockage.

Somewhere in 5% of cases, the problem may lie in the malfunction of the pressure switch, but if the pressure switch is faulty, then most often the drum rotates at least slowly.

  • foreign object in the tankIf the drum of the machine does not spin even before the water starts to fill up and the washing program stops accordingly, the hatch can be opened, possibly because of a foreign object that has fallen into the tank. To check if the drum is jammed or not, just twist it with your hand and immediately everything will become clear.

If you encounter a blockage in the drainage system, you first need to drain the water from the tank. You can do this through the garbage filter, which is located in the Samsung washing machine in the lower right corner of the housing. Lay as many rags as possible so that water does not flood everything around, and slowly unscrew the filter.

After you can drain the tank, do the following:

  1. unscrew the dust filter to the end and remove all dirt and foreign objects from the hole;
  2. if this does not solve the problem, then disconnect the washer from the communications and lower it to the left side;
  3. Next, we will be interested in the part of the Samsung washing machine that we circled in the red circle below - this is a pump and a drain pipe. We need to unscrew and disconnect both of them in order to rinse and clean these parts;
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  4. Immediately below we have the opportunity to disconnect the drain hose from the drain pump, again to clean it from blockages. After this procedure, the machine should work as usual.

If a foreign object got into the washing machine’s tank and jammed the drum, which doesn’t spin, then consider that you are lucky. It could have been much worse.

Due to the oversight of users, a lot of small, and not even very small items fall into the tanks of washing machines, which can simply lie at the bottom of the tank, without disturbing anyone. But it could be different. Get into the tank a large iron button or metal a bone from a bra, which is larger than the space between the tank wall and the drum wall, and here the problems begin.

A foreign object simply seizes the drum, preventing it from spinning, and in the worst case (if it is a sharp bone of a bra), such an object damages the wall of the tank. The tank begins to leak and all this, ultimately, crawls out into an expensive and time-consuming repair.

If we find a jammed drum and suspect that it is not spinning because of a foreign object, we must immediately stop all attempts to rotate the drum or turn on the washing machine. Next, you need to lower the washer on the left side to remove the drain pipe from the tank of the washing machine and through the hole of the drain pipe, which, by the way, is large enough, try to pull out a foreign object with your fingers from the tank.

In most cases, a foreign object can be pulled out through the hole of the drain pipe, if not, you will have to remove the front panel, pull out the heating element (heating element) and, through the formed large hole, remove the excess from the tank.

foreign object in the tank

It's all about the belt

Samsung's older and modern washing machines with a belt drive and a collector motor are a real punishment. That the collector motor itself, that the belt are the weak points of the washing machine. But we know that usually “where it is weak, it breaks” and in our case this saying can be understood literally.drive belt replacement

The first situation that we will consider is the breakage of the drive belt. A belt break occurs either if it is pulled too tightly at the factory, or if it is worn off from time to time. In both cases, the belt must be replaced. You need to buy or order an original spare part and proceed with the replacement.

There is nothing complicated here. We take a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew the screws that are located on the back of the service hatch, remove the service hatch, remove the remnants of the old drive belt from the housing and put on a new belt first on the small engine pulley, then on the large drum pulley.

If you open the hatch, you find that the belt is not torn, check if it is stretched, maybe the drum does not spin for this reason. We take the belt from one edge and swing it from side to side, and then try to scroll. If slippage is evident, you need to remove the stretched belt and put a new one.

The belt can be intact, just flew off the pulley. In this case, it is also better to replace it, because just like that the drive belts do not fly off, either it is stretched or frayed. If everything is in order with the belt, but it still flies, check the condition of the drum pulley.

We look at the engine

If it is neither a belt, nor a blockage, or a foreign object, there may be a reason that the drum does not spin in the motor of the washing machine. You need to start checking the collector motor with its brushes and coil. To do this, do the following.

replacing brushes in the washer motor

  • We put the washing machine on its side, preferably on the left.
  • We remove the engine through the bottom of the machine by unscrewing a few bolts and disconnecting the wiring.
  • Using an ohmmeter, measure the resistance of the coil. If the coil burns out, it needs to be changed.
  • We turn off the small screws and pull out the brushes. If at least one brush is very worn out, then you need to immediately change the pair.

If the coil and brushes are intact, then perhaps the reason that the Samsung washing machine drum does not spin lies in more serious engine malfunctions - damaged lamellas or broken windings. To make sure that the engine is really not working, connect it separately and test. About, how to connect the engine from the washing machine You can find in the article of the same name.

Well, the engine is connected and does not work - the worst fears have been confirmed. Next, you need to decide what to do. You can give the engine to the bore of the slats, or rewind, depending on the malfunction. All this is expensive, and does not guarantee a result, so it’s not regrettable, it’s more reasonable to buy a new engine and install it instead of the old burned out.

In conclusion, we note that some experts argue that the drum does not spin completely when problems arise with the electronics of the washing machine. More specifically, due to malfunctions of the control module. One cannot agree with this statement, since in this case the rotation of the drum is maintained in test mode, that is, it costs a minute, then makes one revolution and again stands.

In this case, it is more correct to say that it does not rotate stably. In our article, we considered cases when the drum does not rotate at all, and we will talk about unstable rotation of the drum in a separate publication, because there are completely different breakdowns and their causes.

   

5 reader comments

  1. Gravatar Vyacheslav Vyacheslav:

    With great hope for an answer. The drum rotates, but not for long, 5-7 revolutions, and then the creak and drum stops. I cleaned the drain. Hand spinning without creaking.
    Thank you for the article

  2. Gravatar Catherine Catherine:

    Spins the drum for 5 minutes.
    Then exactly 10 pathetic attempts to scroll the drum and stop the program.
    In this case, nothing is displayed.
    I’ll check the blockage, although this is not at the time of rinsing or spinning, but during washing itself ...

  3. Gravatar Sergey Sergei:

    Thank you for the article!

  4. Gravatar Dmitry Dmitriy:

    I'm only trying to twist. Then he stops.

  5. Gravatar Nadia Nadia:

    The belt is in place, but the drum is shaking.

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