The short answer
A machine that will not start on an ADB dishwasher usually comes down to a setting rather than a fault: control lock and delayed start both produce a machine that lights up, accepts a cycle and then does nothing at the expected time. The order that follows puts the likeliest and cheapest causes first, and it is the order worth working in rather than starting with the part that sounds most serious. The ADB listings carry a masked suffix in the spine, so the trailing characters on your rating plate will differ from the table without changing the diagnosis.
What you actually observe
- Nothing lights at all when the door is opened — A supply problem, or the thermal protection in the control has opened.
- It beeps or flashes when the start button is pressed — The control is rejecting the start, most often because it cannot see the door closed.
- The panel lights come on but no cycle ever begins — Power is present and the control is alive, which moves the fault to the latch or a setting.
- It runs but nothing gets clean — NEAR MISS: that is a wash-performance fault with its own page.
- Body: Where a step below depends on which ADB listing you own, the table above is the reference; nothing here is written from a model outside it.
What causes it on the ADB platform, in likelihood order
- 1. Control lock and delayed start — Both features do exactly what they claim and both look like a dead machine to anyone who did not set them. A locked panel ignores the start press; a delay accepts it and waits. The control ranks this high on ADB because a single listing means a single control variant, so it is either the fault or it is not.
- 2. The door latch and strike — The classic owner description is that it starts if the door is pushed hard. That sentence alone identifies this cause. Second on ADB: it takes longer to confirm than the cause above it, and it rarely arrives without warning.
- 3. The touchpad and its ribbon connector — A pad that has taken steam or a ribbon connector that has corroded gives a machine that lights up and ignores one particular button, which is usually the start button because it is used most.
- 4. A cycle that never completed — A cancel-and-drain cycle, where the machine offers one, clears this and costs only the time it takes to run.
The order to work in on this platform
- 1. Look for a lock indicator and a delay setting before anything else — Free, immediate, and right often enough to matter.
- 2. Press start while pushing the door firmly shut — If that starts it, the diagnosis is finished.
- 3. Try every button and note which respond — A single dead button is a pad fault, not a board fault.
Before you open anything
Safety
Switch the machine off at its breaker before touching the supply connection; a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off, and a standard household branch circuit is 15 A or 20 A at 120 V. Never defeat the door latch switch to make a cycle run with the door open, because that switch is what stops hot water leaving the tub. The ADB roster is a single listing, ADB1300AF**, so everything here applies to one build rather than to a range.
Models in the ADB family — The listings this family covers; it is a family page, not a model page.
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| ADB1300AF** | amama:dishwasher:adb |
When to call a technician
The line is the door panel. Settings, the latch behaviour, the breaker and a stuck cycle are all owner checks that cost minutes; anything requiring the inner door skin to come off, with a meter on live terminals, is a technician's job.
The other symptoms covered for this family
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