O.T. Kenwood mixer repair - Cooking Recipes Forums

Sorry about being so O.T. but I can't imagine anywhere else

with more Kenwood Chef knowledge.

I have a second-hand A901 which I bought on eBay, very

pleased with it, can't really believe things are still that

well built, cast aluminium case, gear-train like an Alfa

Romeo, 1/3 HP motor etc.

Now its gone wrong, it will only go a one speed - maximum,

good for meringue, less so for bread dough.

Unfortunately it has the old elecro-mechanical speed control

replacement boards anywhere. It used to be possible to

upgrade the control to the newer all electronic sort but

this seems to have been stopped, It now means changing

practically the whole works: motor, controller the lot - £100.

As this seems to have been done deliberately and Kenwood

technical support refuse to speak to anyone but a Kenwood

service agent Kenwood are rapidly rising on my list of firms

to be avoided in future. They are a branch of Thorn EMI, are

they all this nasty?

A crude multimeter test of the passive components shows OK,

this is the only testing I can do. I have replaced the triac

to no effect and now the triac(again) and the capacitor,

again no difference.

Can anybody help? I am fresh out of ideas. I can supply more

details if that would help.