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Anonymous Posted on Apr 12, 2011

My general electirc washer model wcvh6800j1ms, after working some minutes and after drain all the water in the tub, fills the tub with more water totally unusual (almost full all the tub, this washer use normally a few liters of water, not this ammount), and after this, drained all the water without any work or process, when de washer is totally drained, the washer changes the cicle and puts the washer in pause mode. any idea?

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I had a similar problem ... mine was related to a hole in the pressure switch hose (code E22). Inside the washer, there is a pressure switch that senses how full the tub is. It does so using air pressure at the bottom of the tub -- air hose gets "pushed on" by the filling water and causes a pressure spike the switch. If you develop a leak in the air hose, the pressure switch never gets exhausted. There is a safety feature that engages if the water runs for more that 8 minutes without the pressure switch engaging. E22 is one of the codes related to this event. Easy way to see if this is an issue is to run a diagnostic test.

Check out this posting for how to do so: http://www.fixya.com/support/t9576766-found_small_part

Test T02 will show you the most recently encountered codes. At the bottom of that posting is a link to the code definitions with problem resolutions: http://www.fixya.com/support/t9556917-ge_model_wcvh6800j_error_code_04
If you do find a pressure switch related code, here's how to fix it: http://www.fixya.com/support/t9807344-ge_front_load_washer_stops_45_min_35_min

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