Thread Number: 4878
Does a WE16 really fill faster than a FriGEMore?
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Post# 107862   2/4/2006 at 21:55 (6,626 days old) by zzzzz ()        

Had to kill time while washing a comforter too big to fit in my FriGEMore, in one of the triple-loaders at a coin laundry (mostly Wascomat WE16s there, except for half a dozen older W125 "Emerald" triple-loaders and a pair of Dexter "Mega Load" monsters). While checking out one of the WE16s under repair I noticed it filled a lot quicker than my Kenmore, the water gushing out of the fill flume like from a downspout in a heavy rain and filling the basket to the brim in about fifteen seconds.

Is the FriGEMore's commercial cousin designed to fill up that quickly, does the civilian FriGEMore have a restrictor in the water lines, or is it just the 50-psi-regulated water pressure in my house making my Kenmore fill slow?





Post# 107866 , Reply# 1   2/4/2006 at 22:13 (6,626 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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I beleive the water intake hose threads are a standard 3/4 inch hose-cock thread for both home and laundromat use.

IIRC the hoses in laundormat are have a greater I.D. (Internal Diameter) and therefore carry more water, quicker.

Also in a typical one-family home, the main pipes are typically 3/4" and the branches to each room are 1/2"

Therefore ALL three fixture in a bathroom feed from ONE 1/2" set of water-feed pipes. The washer supply, then and the neighboring slop sink would also use 1/2" pipe.

I am surmising in theory this is to prevent any one water use from hogging all the pressure, and the shower from changing temps due to other uses.

In a laudromat the wwater feeds are cerainly greater than either 1/2" or 3/4 inch.

So in summary I agree, commerical washers fill with water MUCH faster.



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