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Thread Number: 38666
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Electrolux Model 1521 powerwand runs even when the vacuum is off |
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| Post# 410925 , Reply# 1 6/26/2019 at 22:35 (1,763 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 410927 , Reply# 2 6/26/2019 at 23:01 (1,763 days old) by compactc9guy (Bathurst NB) | ||
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Post# 410929 , Reply# 3 6/26/2019 at 23:28 (1,763 days old) by vacuumlad1650  (Wauponsee, IL) |
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| Post# 410940 , Reply# 5 6/27/2019 at 10:14 (1,763 days old) by Dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 410944 , Reply# 8 6/27/2019 at 12:07 (1,763 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada) | ||
Steve - Question for you. Has anyone ever opened up the bag door?
You say this vacuum was running fine up until a month ago. On your Electrolux UltraLux, these metal tanks made from 1968 to 1994 had only four places where the wiring & connections were made: The bag door, power switch, motor & cord reel. The majority of the connections are made directly inside the bag door. At the bottom, there is a wiring harness with three wires that leads to the switch, motor & cord reel to make the rest of the connections. The switch & motor connections only have 2 wires on them, so impossible to mess those up. If you already tried swapping the cord reel wires, that leaves only one possibility - the bag door connections. When you open the bag door to change the bag, you will see a plastic pole that contacts the cardboard bag collar when you close the bag door. If you take the plastic cover off on the inside of the bag door, you will see that pole activates a contact switch with three wires connected to it. This is part of the Automatic Control system which shuts the vacuum off when there is a full bag, if that pole isn't depressed by a bag being in place the vacuum will not run. There are also a few wires connected to the metal hose connector on the bag door. This has the contacts inside that make contact with the 2 metal prongs on the hose connector which power the hose, wand & powerhead. What I am willing to bet is that someone, at some point in time, opened up the bag door & tried to repair the vacuum, & when they put it back together they put the wires in the wrong connections. Take your ohm meter & check all the connections inside the bag door. It might also be a good idea if you can find another metal canister & look to see exactly how it is wired inside the bag door. The Diamond Jubilee, Marquise, Grand Marquise & metal UltraLux canisters are all virtually identical inside with respect to their wiring & layout, so any of those will do. Hope this helps you out & you can get your Electrolux canister back working normally & cleaning your home. Rob | ||
| Post# 410947 , Reply# 11 6/27/2019 at 14:13 (1,763 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
I had a similar problem with a slightly older Electrolux Silverado, which came to me as a basket case last fall and I resurrected from the dead last spring. In taking it apart, I disconnected the wires on the cord winder and reconnected them in what I thought was a logical manner with the two white wires on the double connector and the black wire by itself on the single connector. This appears to be how yours is wired in reply #7 above.
With it wired that way, the power nozzle wouldn't run when the vacuum was turned on but would run when the vacuum was turned off. By swapping one of the white wires to the single terminal and the black wire to the top of the double terminal, everything worked fine. Try that and if it doesn't work right, then swap the two white wires and see if that does the trick. I've included a link below to the thread I created to document my trials and tribulations with the Silverado. In reply #7 of that thread, there is a link to a site that shows a teardown of a Diamond J, which is the next model older than yours and the next model newer than mine. As someone else has already mentioned, it's nearly identical to yours. The photo of the wires on the cord winder in that tutorial is incorrect as evidenced by the numbers on terminals and the wires. Wires 2 and 3 are clearly on the wrong terminals. This is what threw me when I wired mine up initially because I focused on the colors and not the numbers. CLICK HERE TO GO TO human's LINK | ||
| Post# 410955 , Reply# 14 6/27/2019 at 21:30 (1,762 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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| Post# 411048 , Reply# 18 6/30/2019 at 10:29 (1,760 days old) by Dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 411339 , Reply# 24 7/9/2019 at 20:53 (1,751 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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Glad you got it fixed... | ||
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