Today I’m out on the beautiful Isle Of Palms in Charleston, SC troubleshooting a Frigidaire Stack Dryer M# LEQ1442ES1. This one is not coming on at all, no lights show when you press the start button.

The first thing you need to check in this situation is the power supply, make sure you have 220 volts coming to the unit. You’ll find a tutorial on using a Voltmeter here.

The power supply is fine on this unit, the issue is, and this happens a lot on these models.

The problem is figuring out if the main control board just went bad or if some part the board controls went bad and caused the board to short out.

There is no way to determine this without taking the entire machine apart and ohm testing every part on the machine. A procedure which is both time and cost prohibitive.

On a car, everything that can blow out your main computer has a fuse between it and the computer. The engineers don’t want your main computer to blow if an external part blows, they want the fuse to blow.

This makes it easier to diagnose and repair the vehicle.

Appliance engineers purposely don’t use this protocol. They want it to blow the board, they are purposely trying to engineer a scenario in which the smartest thing for you to do is to go buy a new one. It is a travesty that they can get away with this, but all of them do. Our government could care less.

This control board is roughly $280.00 with shipping plus my installation charge. There is a chance it could blow out again the second I install it. In this case I normally advise my clients to replace the machine.

I like to make money but I want to see my clients get their moneys worth. This is how I keep a good reputation and that is what keeps me in business.