Washing machine heating element

[Tessy]

Those of you who have experience with washing machines onboard... I know that some have disconnected the heating element and plumbed a hot supply directly to the machine via a mixer valve. 
 

I have done this, but I have not disconnected the heater as the machine has a cold wash button that I press to ensure the machine doesn’t use it anyway.

 

however I now have a fault popping on the screen that is to do with the element. I want to try disconnecting the element completely as I don’t use it  and it has an annoying 2 second activation that it does anyway before registering it is a cold wash. 
 

when disconnecting, is it as simple as pulling off all wires and blanking them off? 

[Tracy D'arth]

Er, maybe. Taking just one wire off, assuming only 2, will stop it working but the washer may go into a fault mode thinking that the heater has failed.

Modern electronics in washers are complex, using microprocessors.

All you can do is try it and see.