Hi Alex, thanks for the useful videos on the Morphy Richards power steam irons. Just want to pick your brains briefly if you don't mind.......on mine the water fill light stays on pretty much most of the time, after a bit of tinkering I can see that it's an issue either with the float magnet in the water tank or the magnetic proximity switch inside the base unit, the water tank only has to move a few mm in its housing for the contact to be lost and the water fill light to come on. When I put the magnetic tip of a screwdriver against the switch itself (inside the unit) I got a solid stable action and the water fill light stayed off, however, when I moved the magnet along the length of the switch (about 20 mm long) the connection came and went, it seems stable at the ends but less so in the middle. Do you know if these types of switches either work or don't or is there a level of deterioration? If the former then the switch isn't at fault which just leaves the floating magnet, maybe it's just not strong enough to penetrate through the plastic layers and small gap? Unfortunately you can't get to this magnet to change it as it looks like the water tank is a factory sealed unit. I thought this observation might be useful for others to know. Cheers.
Hi Alex, thanks for the useful videos on the Morphy Richards power steam irons.
Just want to pick your brains briefly if you don't mind.......on mine the water fill light stays on pretty much most of the time, after a bit of tinkering I can see that it's an issue either with the float magnet in the water tank or the magnetic proximity switch inside the base unit, the water tank only has to move a few mm in its housing for the contact to be lost and the water fill light to come on.
When I put the magnetic tip of a screwdriver against the switch itself (inside the unit) I got a solid stable action and the water fill light stayed off, however, when I moved the magnet along the length of the switch (about 20 mm long) the connection came and went, it seems stable at the ends but less so in the middle. Do you know if these types of switches either work or don't or is there a level of deterioration? If the former then the switch isn't at fault which just leaves the floating magnet, maybe it's just not strong enough to penetrate through the plastic layers and small gap? Unfortunately you can't get to this magnet to change it as it looks like the water tank is a factory sealed unit. I thought this observation might be useful for others to know.
Cheers.