u/LastOfADyingBread

Hey all. My dryer is a 3 prong outlet reading 120/240 on the multimeter both on the dryer and the wall outlet.

We had a crappy dryer that stopped heating after a year. Just got a Samsung DVE52M8650V and it only lasted a WEEK with the same issue! All spin, no heat. We haven't been able to remove the drum yet to test the heating element with the multimeter, but the fact that it happened so soon is surprising. We wanna determine if it's the house or the dryer before dismantling. The super blurry picture is genuinely the best image of the coils I could get without taking the whole thing apart.

Any help would be SUPER appreciated

So, before this I had an old whirlpool that stopped heating. It had lasted about a year and we got it super cheap. I inspected the heating element but it looked genuinely okay and was too much of a pain to not just ditch.

We sprung to get another off Facebook marketplace.

It's worth mentioning I had to get new terminal screws because one was missing, but that went fine. The dryer (Samsung DVE52M8650V) worked great for...a week. Now it's also stopped heating. This time, the small bit of the coils of the heating element I can see looked not great. The screenshot I included is the best visual I can get of it on my phone without dismantling this week old dryer.

Truly worked great for that time. I realized after it stopped heating that there was a clog under the lint trap but like. Not bad enough to overheat the whole thing. Plus I emptied the whole inside of as much lint as I could before installing it.

What gives? When I use a multimeter, my plug is reading exactly what it should both on the dryer and the plug, but twice in a row doesn't feel like a coincidence. This dryer was relatively new, at least compared to the old one. The breaker that flips for the laundry room is also only one lever, not two like I've heard it should be. But again, I'm getting 120/240 everywhere I should.

I can't get a multimeter on the heating element without removing the drum which I desperately don't want to do until it's absolutely necessary.

I'm sorry for not providing multimeter readings for the heating element or a better view, I'm just trying to do as little damage as possible, especially if the solution is not with the dryer but with the apartment.

TL;DR. Two Dryers of wildly different quality both kept spinning but stopped heating. The first after a year, the second better one was after a week. I want to inspect the cause with minimal dismantling. Multimeter readings on plug (wall and dryer side) are appropriately reading 120/240