[RFI] RE: "The Maytag RFI in Maryland makes power co RFI look good"

[Chris Tobias]

Hello,

Most older washers and dryers use a motorized timer to sequence events.  At 
the end of the cycle, this motor must drive a set of contacts that 
disconnects the timer motor.  The designing engineers hope that there is 
enough inertia in the gear train to separate the contacts before the 
mechanism stops.  Unfortunately, this is not always the case.  The result 
is a small spark-gap transmitter spreading RFI.  Newer, CPU-based 
appliances should not have this particular problem, but might have others...

73, Chris Tobias
kd3oa at ptd.net
former GE appliance repairman

At 08:23 PM 2/23/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I think the question was "what in a washing machine could cause RFI"?
>If it's energized by volts it can spark!