Got a problem with a clothes dryer not working. It leaves clothes wetter w hen it is finished than when it started! That is because it doesnt seem to get hot enough and a certain amount of water feeds into the drum in the no rmal course of drying.
There is a sensor which I assume tells the element how hot to get and the element itself. The sensor usually dies in this machine and I Have had to r eplace a few of them. I check the wires and when they start to look burned, a replacement sensor is needed. When I get the sensor out, one terminal us ually looks completely burned.
However in the present case, I ordered a new sensor and then found that the one in there LOOKS perfectly OK. The wires look burned but that seems to b e because they burned on some last replacement occasion. When I pulled the actual wires off, the terminals look OK and the sensor looks OK.
How can I check the sensor to see if it is really OK or whether the sensor has now failed in some other way? Alternatively how can I check the termin als of the element itself to see if it that part which needs replacement?