Well, the other day I had posted about working on my dryer. I ended up replacing the control board after all. My wife and kids had been telling me of a funny smell, said it smelled like fish, coming from around the dryer, so yesterday I set out to investigate the funny smell. I pulled the dryer out from the wall, disconnected the vent hose thinking I would find some damp lint or something in there but it was clean. Okay, we had been using the dryer prior to my investigation by the way. So, next thing I did was unplug the dryer and when I did, I discovered the plug was hot and it had started melting around one of the spade/prongs, and this was a brand new power cord too. So, I got out the multimeter and checked the voltage in the outlet and it was as it should be. Next thing I did, I flipped the breaker off and took the cover off of the outlet and found a connector in the outlet was loose and was very burnt. Ah ha!!!! Off to Home Depot I go. They replaced my power cord free of charge and I got a new outlet. I am 100% convinced that this outlet is what caused the circuit board to start acting crazy. So, all is good now. I replaced the outlet and power cord.
Here are pics of the old outlet, you can see melted plastic on the backside, the new one and new power cord.
I'm glad I found this as this is what let's the smoke out of houses ya know.
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