My dishes have been coming out wet ever since flushing my water heater; my wife started a dishwasher load without telling me while I was in the middle of that project so I’m guessing it ran dry and fucked up the heating element.
I haven’t noticed any issues draining. The dishes are coming out clean but wet. I’ve already run a reset on the board in case there was a fault that wasn’t clearing or something. So now the most likely culprit is a dead element or maybe the switch for it?
I’ve acquired a new heating element and I’m planning on replacing it in hopes of getting dry dishes again today. Any tips beyond what a tutorial on YouTube would already bring up? Open the breaker, close the water valve, have a towel handy for any water that comes out of connections I’m breaking, etc. But maybe you know of some challenges in the process and a sort of life hack to make them easy?
Replacing the heat element didn’t solve my problem. Thanks to your comment, I did some digging and found that my dishwasher should have a sort of safety shutoff switch which would’ve likely been triggered by a call for heat while the box was empty. I took the dishwasher back out, flipped it on its side, and looked for it. I followed the wires to a switch with a little black button and pressed it. I heard a click.
I haven’t tested it yet, but I think that’s all I had to do lol. Thanks!
Edit: FIXED!
Awesome! You are lucky, some of those devices don’t have a reset - they are just like a fuse and once they are blown they need replacing.
Good to hear it’s all working again, and at least now you know for next time!