The short answer
On an ADB dishwasher, a machine that will not start is most often the supply rather than the appliance: these machines are hard-wired or plugged in under a cabinet, and the connection there fails far more often than anything inside the door. The causes below are in likelihood order, cheapest first; working down that order costs less than starting with the part that sounds most alarming.
What you actually observe
- It starts hours later than expected — A delayed-start setting doing precisely what it was asked to do.
- 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.
- It starts, drains briefly and stops — NEAR MISS: a machine clearing itself before a cycle points at the drainage page instead.
- Body: 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.
Ranked causes on these ADB models
- 1. Control lock or delayed start — It is checked first because it costs nothing and because it is right often enough to save a service call. Control faults rank high on ADB because the revision numbers in this roster are mostly control and interface revisions.
- 2. The thermal fuse behind the panel — Many machines in this class protect their control with a thermal fuse. Once it opens, the whole panel goes dark while the house supply is perfectly good, which sends owners looking at the breaker for nothing. Second on ADB because it mimics the cause above it almost exactly, so the cheaper one is eliminated first.
- 3. 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.
- 4. A machine waiting to finish the last run — A machine interrupted mid-cycle will often resume rather than start fresh, so it appears to ignore a new selection while it is actually trying to finish the old one.
Check in this order on the ADB platform
- 1. Look for a lock indicator and a delay setting before anything else — Free, immediate, and right often enough to matter.
- 2. Confirm the breaker and the outlet are good with a dark panel — Good supply plus a dark panel points inside the control.
- 3. Press start while pushing the door firmly shut — If that starts it, the diagnosis is finished.
Before you open anything
Safety
Isolate at the breaker before any wiring is touched, and treat a capacitor as charged after the power is off. The door switch is an interlock and not an inconvenience: a machine persuaded to run with its door open sprays water near household voltage, and no diagnostic step is worth that. 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.
Models in the ADB family — The listings this family covers; it is a family page, not a model page.
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| ADB1100AW**-02 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF** | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-05 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-06 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-07 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-08 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-09 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-10 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-11 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-12 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-13 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1300AF**-14 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1400AG** | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1400AM** | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1400AM**-01 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1400AM**-02 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1400AM**-03 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AD** | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AD**-01 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AD**-02 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AD**-03 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AD**-04 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AD**-05 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AD**-06 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1500AM** | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1700AD** | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1700AD**-02 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
| ADB1700AD**-03 | amana:dishwasher:adb |
When to call a technician
Call when the panel is dark with a good supply at the outlet, or when the latch, the settings and the buttons are all clean and no cycle will begin. What is left is the thermal fuse, the pad or the board, and all three are behind the door panel. The ADB roster covers twenty-eight listings, ADB1100AW**-02 through ADB1700AD**, and what follows is common to all of them unless a step says otherwise.
The other symptoms covered for this family
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