A Miele washing machine door lock goes under Dave Jones's knife

EEVblog 1777 reverse engineers the W1's failed interlock to find the broken part, while a three-week-old op-amp exam question draws the most viewers each day.

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EEVblog 1777 - Miele W1 Door Interlock Teardown

Twenty-one days after it went up, a single exam question is still the busiest thing on EEVblog. "EEVblog 1771 - A Tricky OpAmp Exam Question" has Dave Jones working through a problem that asks students to use frequency and ignore it at the same time, then turning it into a bonus lesson on op-amp biasing, ripple filters and why it pays to think about what sort of exam you are sitting before you answer. It has passed 300,000 views and draws more each day than anything else on the channel.

The one new upload was more domestic. "EEVblog 1777 - Miele W1 Door Interlock Teardown" takes apart the failed door lock from a Miele washing machine to work out how it is meant to work and what gave up. It opened with about 36,000 views on its first day, and the comment section turned into a repair bench. Several viewers sketch out what each contact and the solenoid do, others suggest ordering two replacement parts so one can be opened and compared, and a few wonder whether the missing broken piece is lying somewhere on the laundry floor. One popular theory credits a bimetallic spring with the delay before a front loader lets you open the door.

In between sits "EEVblog 1776 - Get paid $175/hr to eliminate your own PCB Design job!", Dave's look at an offer to train AI on Altium Designer, the very software a PCB designer might be replaced by. Nine days old, it is running nearly level with the op-amp video.

The channel as a whole is moving slower than usual, though among the science channels closest in size it gained the second most views of the week, behind only Reactions, which is having a very big week. Isaac Arthur sits just behind.

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The videos drawing views on EEVblog right now

EEVblog 1771 - A Tricky OpAmp Exam Question313,280 views EEVblog 1776 - Get paid $175/hr to eliminate your own PCB Design job!152,641 views

The numbers

Here is how EEVblog's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Reactions

909,961

EEVblog

472,446

Isaac Arthur

406,285

Applied Science

328,706

Tibees

156,386

subscribers

1,010,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

223,524,063

views per day

47,288

typical day: 71,921

this week's videos (first-day views)

EEVblog 1777 - Miele W1 Door Interlock …

36,591

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Tibees

1,340,000

Isaac Arthur

1,170,000

EEVblog

1,010,000

Applied Science

890,000

Reactions

875,000

Konstantin - trendsetter

843,000

WeatherAdam

835,000

Fun Science

824,000

Cosmoknowledge

823,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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