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Update: I keep seeing people replace the main board first on a Samsung washer with an LE error
Had a call yesterday for a WF45R6100AP that just showed LE. Everyone online says to swap the main control board, but I checked the stator first. Found a burnt spot on one of the coils, a clear short. The customer in Tempe said two other guys told her it was the board, which would have been 300 dollars. It was the stator, 80 bucks and an hour. Why does the forum advice always jump to the most expensive part? Anyone else find the stator is the real culprit most of the time?
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claire9586mo ago
Actually, I've found the board is the real issue more often than not.
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wood.zara6mo ago
I saw a tech breakdown last week that said like 70% of boot failures trace back to the motherboard. They had this whole thing about bad capacitors on older boards... you get that weird bulging at the top. My friend's PC kept crashing and it was a tiny crack in the board's trace lines from factory.
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rowanbennett5mo ago
Yeah, I was totally in that camp for a long time, always going for the board first. But after running into a few washers where a new board didn't fix the LE code, I started checking the stator every single time. It's just a good habit now. I saw what @wood.zara said about boot failures, and that makes sense for computers, but these Samsung washers seem to cook their stators. The burnt spot is a dead giveaway. Swapping the board first is an easy guess, but it costs the customer way more money for no reason if that's not it.
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