Appliance Repair

Testing Washer Accelerometers

Name: Testing Washer Accelerometers
Uploaded: 2026-05-28T13:49:21Z
Duration: 2 min 20 s
Description: In this follow-up accelerometer training video, we dive deeper into out-of-balance redistribution events, low spin speed conditions, and why clothes come out soaking wet. Learn how to use GE Appliances Smart HQ to analyze cycle history, verify RPM performance, graph motor speed, and test accelerometer circuits directly from the schematic and control board connections.

In this follow-up accelerometer training video, we dive deeper into out-of-balance redistribution events, low spin speed conditions, and why clothes come out soaking wet. Learn how to use GE Appliances Smart HQ to analyze cycle history, verify RPM performance, graph motor speed, and test accelerometer circuits directly from the schematic and control board connections.

Diagnostic

Appliances

Electrical

Juan Morales

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You can actually see, take a look at this, my friends look at number, uh, cycle 1266. We're gonna go ahead and look at the, look at that out of balance redistribution events. Eight eight outta balance redistribution events. And if you look at the target speed, look at the, look at the maximum spin speed, 400 RPMs.

And again, what I'm talking about is the out of balance redistribution events right there. This is essentially telling you, right, look at the target, the the spin speed. This is telling you that the machine only was able to get up to 400 RPMs. And what this is gonna do, it is gonna make the clothes come out wet.

So when you actually take the clothes outta the washer, because it spun so slow, you're gonna have to ring 'em out. And that's, that's obviously no good. Right. So again, going back to our slide over here with the accelerometer, how do we test that? Well, again, the first thing you will need to check is the fault code, but if we zoom in over here, we can see that we have a connector on the main, uh.

That is connector J 9 0 9. And then we have a connector on the accelerometer board itself. That's J 3 0 1. So the two lines that should stand out are the five volt and the ground, and of course that's gonna be a red and a black wire. Now if you go to your main control board, it's very easy to to find it because you just go ahead and identify the, the, the connector number.

And there it is, pin number's, uh, 4, 3, 2, 1. It's black, yellow, blue, and red. And. Exactly what the schematic symbol tells us, right? Four pin connector, four wires, black, yellow, blue, red. Very, very easy. And again, as I mentioned before, above that connector is where you have your, um, your pressure sensor. So with that said, my friends, we've talked a lot about, you know, I kind of mentioned Smart HQ and what it can do as far as.

Documentation, right? Looking at the schematics, looking at the cycle history, the fault codes. But now, okay, let me go ahead and show you how you can leverage the Smart HQ service application, not only to verify that the motor can get up to the maximum spin speed, but also to verify the RPMs and graph the speed so you can see if it's actually working.

You could use this test. Before you fix the machine or as a post repair functionality test.