How to tell if the touchpanel or control board is bad by taking a test of it.

The entry was posted by Samurai Appliance Repair Man.

You can't really be sure if a bad touchpanel or the control board is the problem when you're trying to fix a Whirlpool-built dishwasher.Examples include:

The thing they all have in common is that the dishwasher won't run.

It's almost always the touchpanel that goes bad in these cases, because a keypad gets stuck closed or worn on the inside, so it no longer makes contact.

If you remove the kickpanels below the door, you will find a tech sheet in a plastic pouch.There is a simple procedure for determining if the touchpanel or control board is the culprit.