I agree Eugene...

Simply Awsome

Splash !

Wow Mike right in the face !

Lol.

Roscoe  ~

It was interesting to see; had used too much Persil Liquid Gold, and after the tub drained,  heavy suds were half way up the window. Remembered a short mention of automatic suds control--no details provided--in the terse, unsatisfying manual. So I watched, full of anticipation and wonder. The LG did a series of tumbles, spins,  and drains, and slowly but surely the suds dispersed; it took about maybe ten minutes. Surprised that no water was added. Basically,  the load whacked the suds back and forth and around compressing the suds into soapy water which the pump took away in stages as it cycled on and off intermittently.

You memory is perfect because I did mention this feature, suds elimination, but had not seen it, and hoped to film it, but this oversudsing episode was an accident. Thanks. My favorite shot is the last one which I almost lost. Hence, the Jesus! (smiling). 

Darren  ~

You really did the shot justice, making it much closer to the real thing. It's beautiful. Flying water currents are hard to capture. I need a slow speed camera to catch this stuff. Guess I'll add that to the bucket list.  Thank you.

Gene  ~  Only recently did I learn that the Frigi recirculates. How and where does your spray originate?  T'anks, Hank ;'D

Richard ~

Very satisfied. The local dealer had the last Wild Cherry without Turbowash, and I passed on it. Part of the good cleaning in minimum water is achieved by the constant saturation which the Turbo jets provide. Don't get one without it.  Every cycle I've tried has at least one deep rinse and at least two sprays.  The options let you select 1, 2, or 3 more rinses beyond what the cycle provides. All the deep rinses use plentiful water that you can see up to the bottom of the window's big rubber seal. To get that much water in the wash cycle,  you have to select Bulky, Permaent Press, Delicate or Handwash. 

Thank you  for appreciating the work,  love the questions -- can't get enough! -- and seeing that you've just joined, I offer you  big, warm  welcome to Automatic Washer. Good luck on your purchase.  

Chuck ~

I was really surprised at the short drying time of 20 minutes on a big load of cleaning cloths. Even a Unimatic load takes longer to dry. This machine has two Turbo jets for recirc

at 5 and 7 o'clock,  and one yellow spray valve at Noon &Midnight which LG describes as an atomizer. 

Interesting that I'm only seeing one deep rinse on the cycles I've tried. From what you say, it's because I use Turbowash exclusively. Didn't know that. Good to know, more fun to come experimenting. Thank you. But I don't think I could stand to watch without the Turbo Jets streaming ;'D

I love the Speedwash cycle ( 4 minute default wash time on mine)  and I use it all the time, firstly because I wash a lot of small loads frequently , and secondly because it's so familiar to me almost like vintage washing where the load takes about 30 minutes; it is never done in 15 real time--only in LG clock time--because the spin ritual adds about another ten minutes.  Thirdly, because you get all the signature LG drama compressed into a short sequence, and fourthly , the missing spin allows more retention of detergent fragrance which is important to me. The main drawback for the those with sensitive skin is that there is no spin between wash and rinse; and THAT is how they keep it speedy.  Aren't you  using HE detergent? When I accidentally over-sudsed, the LG removed them; it has a special protocol for this. Isn't yours working?  It was surprising and illuminating to watch. 

And no I wasn't wrong. My hot water is indeed 120-130 as mentioned in the vid because my cold water line is attached to the laundry sink's faucet facilitating any temperature I desire entering through the cold line; thus I don't have to fuss around to get hot water without heating.   I think you'd like the Sanitary cycle better than the Allergiene; it's shorter and doesn't  use that long initial  steam cycle which has set a few stains here that  Sanitary then removed.  You can upgrade for 12 dollars a year, a buck a month, or 3 &1/3 cents a day. I tried to go without upgrading for health reasons, and it was just too frustrating to do without editing. If you're strapped, the system allows any member to upgrade another member. Would you like me to do that for you? You've been so generous to me here.

Roscoe ~

I have really high water pressure here living on the lake. On some machines, I actually  have to adjust the valves toward closed because of all the force, especially the cold water valves on the Frigidaires.   The water pressure on the LG seems fine. The incoming water is forced through two "banks" atop the drawer opening. They look exactly like the bottoms of those square shower contraptions on bathtub hoses of old.  But loving natural water sports so much, you have me really interested in seeing what will happen to the water pressure if I remove the restrictors, assuming they're there. The machine was installed by the dealer techs, and I have only seen the tap end of the cold hose in which there was no restrictor, as expected.   I think you can see the incoming water in the open drawer in the vid, but I'm not sure.  Here's Big Wild Cherry's control panel.

I have to wash the two couch quilts-- they both fit comfortably and get good and wet--and I'll snap a pic for you later today or tomorrow.

I remember reading about the temperatures. somewhere on line as as well -- unbelievably they're not in the manual -- and if memory serves,  Allergeine gets up to 131, while Sanitary  heats to 151. The thing about Allergiene, though is that it does all that default or automatically scheduled steaming before the clothing gets really wet. While admitting that it sounds totally counterintuitive, steam first rather than later hasn't worked out too well for me.  The manual is not only stingy with details but sometimes contradictory especially what it says regarding Allergeine  versus Sanitary.  More study needed with less bias and angst toward such a bad manual for such a fabulous machine.

Notice that it also shows the temp level;  Aller. leaves it blank.

The star has just arrived next to you name. Have fun editing after posting. 

If you use Frigilux's recipe by adding LCB to this cycle, any dingy whites will startle when they come out of the drum. I tried it the other day, on some older stuff ~ WOW. 

No other machine in the house handles each of these well, let alone both.

Well, actually, it's already rollin' door open Bulky.

Bulky alternates sprays & tumbles. Here is a straight spray with no tumbling

Playing the Rock Opera "Tommy," by the Who.

You can stick your finger into the surprisingly wide joint. If I had longer fingers, I could reach the honey comb. Will start looking for a long-fingered person.

See the twin shower heads above. 

Up to the belly of the beast

Jerrod ~ Here ya go. Hope you like it, and thanks for the  inspiration. A lot of work and a lot of fun.

Eugene  ~ It works  like a chemistry experiment;  you never disappoint.

Logix  ~ Yeah, steam first, not good.  The steaming is separate from the water heating, but I don't have a handle on it yet. Stay tuned.

Johnny ~ You've got the tools, and I know how to get the temp. I discovered a secret cycle, unlisted anywhere. Found it playing the buttons in the flow state and using intuition: the DRAIN cycle. Turn the machine on, press the spin speed button till it reads NO SPIN, press start. The clock will read I minute. Tub drains & shuts off, fastest cycle in the world.  So use the sanitary cycle and come back after 30 minutes before the massive cool down. Stop machine and turn off to abort cycle. Turn machine on, and do the drain. Let the discharge get going; then get your equipment to find the truth in heating.

Johnny ~ NEVER put LCB in the rinse. Always in the wash, or in a separate pre-wash before the rinses. Bad for fabrics, bad for skin to keep the chlorine in. 

Notes: The Bulky Cycle  started  a second full deep rinse, but I aborted it, having used uber low-sudsing Persil Mega Pearls, and wanting scent. Used the Spin cycle at full speed. The Bulky spins at medium, 800. 

It took two loads in the dryer for LG's big washink ;'D

Roscoe ~ You KNOW I'll be looking for those restrictors if they're there. If so, out they go, and I'll let you know, but if you see the pic of the inlet above, the pressure is strong.  Intrigued.

THANK GOD FOR EDIT. HOLY FECES. I LEFT SOME INADVERTENT FECAL MATTER.

Thank you Alexander the Great.  I get right on that crap NOW ;'D

So as not to tease and leave: For "Tub drains and shuts off," I first wrote "Tub drains and sh!ts off. 

"I did add LCD to the proper area in the inner-left area of the pull-out dispenser, and it seems like it dispensed most of it right away. I thought it was supposed to introduce the LCB into the rinse cycle? "

I didn't mean that you put it in the wrong dispenser. What your wrote suggests you thought the machine added beach during the rinse; it doesn't ! Bleach always comes in during the wash cycle.  I thought this was common knowledge, and I'm trying to show you bleach IS SUPPOSED TO go in during the wash phase.  

Alex & John ~ I agree the stream seems like gimmickry, but the glass does get awfully hot,  and I'm sure we'll all figure it out.

By the way, a thank you or at least an acknowledgment for the upgrade would be nice. 

The March of the Water Nymphs

Are technically supposed to introduce, Chlorine Bleach, sometime during the last 10 minutes of the wash cycle. But, one finds, if you're not careful, and use more than 1/2 cup, it dispenses in seconds. 

Honestly, I've found it easier, to just run another cycle, with Bleach as needed, than trust the dispenser. You really want the Detergent to have a go at the dirty laundry, before the bleach does. I think the Dispenser, was just simply poorly designed. 

Whirlpools dispense the bleach during the first rinse. Naturally, if there's only one deep rinse, the bleach has to be dispensed during the wash - like Mieles do.

So, what happens with steam selected? Does it fill some and then tumble while heating? You might want to try this once with an empty drum (and maybe even the door open ) to see what exactly goes on.

Hello Roscoe, I read the manual which is unusually forthcoming about the inlets, making much ado about the filters, and the warning not to remove them. Now this is about filters not flow restrictors, about which there is no mention, nor any pix of them in the diagram. No scanner here, so I can't show you. Hope to find a way later. 

John & Alex. Steam in progress; magic key in door lock, with door mostly closed by magnetized anti-mold device. I just opened the door, and the machine is full of steam, hard to perceive through the glass, but once the door is open, I got a nice facial. 

like a big boiling pot. Hard to see in pix but covincing in the flesh.  Streaming up across control dial,  over left panel scripts, up and over the dispenser drawer, ever upward.  

Nice!

How much time does Steam add on? Where does the steam come from - underneath the drum? Was there water in the drum? This happens before the actual wash cycle?

Alex

Truly enlightening: it really works. I thought it was "The Emperor's New Clothes!"  The whole house smelled like Persil because after I left the door open, the steam just kept pumping out. It was amazing.

The steam breathes forth from the top--I THINK--more study required. 

Just the usual low level of about 2 & 1/2 gallons--but that was without anything in the drum to absorb any water. Guessing that a load would have been wet but not sloshing. 

The Allergeine cycle time was 136. Don't know about the Steam buzzer pressed for other cycles; haven't tried.

Hey, Thanks, there's a lot here to learn. Now I'm really interested where before I was a doubting Thomas.

Hey Alex, the next time I have people over who have terrible gas and flatulence, I'll run down and do a door open Allergieeeeeeeeene!

Real Steam, Eugene. Imagine!!!

Last night I tried the Cold Wash, a cycle the booklet claims uses six motions: Tumbling, Rolling, Stepping, Scrubbing, Swing, and Filtration. Guessing that the rather violent back  & forth agitator like swings of the tub describe the "Scrubbing" motion, but then what is "Swing" ?  This was the first viewing. When I tried it before on another cycle none of this happened; the cycle must have been too short. For this  Cold Wash experience, I used Cottons/Normal.  Fun to watch. Definately movie worthy.

Wish I could pipeline you some steam.

Perfect, and the only reason this model can't show filtration is because it lacks the Turbo Jets.

Learning Curve:

So the rolling is slower tumbling. When I've seen this -- which I now recognize in hindsight -- thought I was just getting tired or that the light or the load was creating an optical illusion.  The door was closed during the times of witnessing rolling.  

And swing is simply slower scrubbing. Thanks !

So glad you found these and posted them, Alex. Many Thanks.

Watching scrubbing with water in the tub is impressive, dramatic, and memorable. With a direct drive motor, these moves are possible; just imagine trying to pull this off with belts and pulleys !

Wonder what the engineers will do to enhance direct drive moves is the years to come.

Wondered the same things too. but for blue  jeans and trail biking clothes, and rags, I'm going to use this thrashing Cold Wash Option. Seeing it once I was convinced.

Cheating though because the water entering through  the cold line will be HOT. That arrangement should really give the  this machine a vintage top loading-like edge. 

Just found out that the Speed Wash cycle does not spin between extra rinses, either, just as it does not spin between the wash and single rinse on the preset cycle.   In this regard, it works just like the GE Combo which rinses three times and then spins for the first and only time. (Other  LG cycles do.)

So I found a new favorite  cycle, kind of like a Super Wash. Select Speed Wash + one extra rinse. You get the selected wash time --I used Heavy Soil-- the gallon cool down, the quick drain which stops immediately when the pump senses a decrease in pressure, a refill, rinse, drain, refill rinse, spin. Fast & furious. Good for higher sudsers like Persil Liquid and when you want lots of washing, and no load sensing or long spin distributions. 

John, when you next do a wash would you see if the Speed Wash keeps the heat on when selecting max wash time, and when your meter says the power throttles back.  From you I eared that the Speed Wash heats.  Although I had a dim awareness that the load coming out was usually warm, I thought it was because I was rigging the incoming cold line.  And since it is a coil, and the fine fill begins at once, maybe it is heating the rinse water, if only partially and residually.  So, see when the heat goes on and off during Speed. Thanks.

Hey Alex, Hello!

Well it'll sure be great  fun to try especially since the other day when I selected medium speed it looked to be going like a banshee at 1200 and I thought good Lord does this only spin at one speed, a million miles an hour. Thanks for the tip so I can find out.

In that video, either the sound was perfection or that's one big a$$ machine, The Titanium,  with a bigger,  louder pump and louder percussives everywhere due to the size. Easy to recognize,  that's the big 5.2 cubic feet LG which the lady at Best Buy tried to sell me the day I went looking for Big Red which turned out to be  unavailable. She was so funny explaining that  she had the 3.5 machine but not in cherry red and that she was saving up money so that she could buy this great big giant beast because it can wash 77 towels or something. Hyperbole, mine. It would be fun to have if you're washing for an army but I had no  desire to get that great big beast. Yet, seeing it perform live.........

Alex,  you know what I think they've done with the spray on this bigger machine?  I think they've narrowed the flume so that the spray is not as expansive but it's more focused, narrowed, and maybe even stronger due to the nearly 2/5's increase in tub size.  In person the Titanium tub is cavernous.

That was my aunt Lenore's name who indulged my love for washing machines by letting me do the laundry with her in a vintage Easy spin.  Honored to have her name as my Aworg handle.

When you select Heavy Soil on Speed Wash, the cycle time increases from 15 to 25.  See if you can gauge the temp after what should be approximately 14 minutes of heating, when you think of it or is convenient.

Yesterday was the first time I added one extra rinse** with Speed Wash, and I witnessed a most welcome surprise. After the drain, there was a  nice long  spray rinse while the machine TUMBLED. Always like that classic maneuver in front loaders, but it seems to have disappeared in the contemporary washers.  All other spray rinses on this LG have occur during spin. It was very interesting and satisfying to watch it spray while tumbling. Then the drama increased. As soon as the spray stopped, the jets went on and the fill began. So many different water sounds with the tumbling starting and stopping. Total Washer Heaven.

I did another load using this custom made Super Wash, and it did the same thing.  Mindful of water waste  -- you're reading my mind ;'D --  after the LG did its new trick, I aborted the second rinse, and selected spin which gives the default cotton version of 18 minutes, at least 10 of which fly at 1200 RPM's; the load was really, really dry. This  Red Lady is full of surprises. I wonder what will come next.

Thank you, John

** (Using Persil Pearls, there is little-to-no sudsing.) 

I agree about the wonderful scent of Tide HE Original. It was my go to detergent for everything except whites for which I used Tide's Bleach version, until I discovered Persil.  Don't  know how long this Persil infatuation will last or if it is permanent. Yes, it would be wonderful if Tide made softener in their original scent. 

Somewhere in a lab way back in a forgotten cupboard is the long lost vial of Original Gain Powder Perfume. When they find that first scent from long ago, I'll come running. 

Thanks for the wash water temp check. Guessing 110.

that looks like a water-rich machine for sure! How long does the spray keep up? Whole cycle, part of cycle, beginning of cycle?

Rarely use the Bright Whites. Not surprised that you've found the rinse water to be ten degrees higher than tap cold even after the high speed spin after the wash. Residuals are interesting and subtle, coming to my attention when I moved into this house with baseboard hot  water heating.  It's been a constant source of fascination, even with barely a candle heating the LG's meager two gallons of wash water on the regular cycles. When I use Sanitary for white loads, the draining wash water is scalding hot, so that little bugger takes its time, but in the end does the job. Sanitary is about an hour and a half, heating for maybe 60 minutes--guessing.  Try sanitary for really hot water. No thermometer here.   Should I call you John? No name given in profile 

Jon, the spray is just under a minute--have gotten to the count of 50, using the one thousand, two thousand, three thousand method. (Must get timer and thermometer)

Two sprays in final spin. When they come depends on cycle. On Speed Wash, they enter at minute 5 & 3, remaining. More sprays occur depending on the cycle and the extra rinses selected. The LG computer truly has a mind of its own and seems to do any damn thing it pleases, lol.

You've got to get one of these, Jon. You'd have a ball. And with all your meters and equipment, you could do definitive water use studies.  Haven't written it out yet, but my thesis was that LG has copied every favorite and well-known maneuver from all the vintage washing machines we know and love. Someone at LG has spent a lot of time in the Imperial Archives of Aworg.

Jon Charles ~

Here's a link to the movie Dennis & I made showing the water richness.

Alex ~

I haven't tried the buttons yet,  and I would also love a "real" heater to do a classic European Boil Wash, but this teeny LG "buffet warmer"  is very satisfying for someone who has had NO heater ever before. 

 The whole hope and effort is to launder the load in as little water as possible. First for conservation of a diminishing natural resource ( see HBO's  "Vice" piece on Texas Drought or the PBS  "Nature"  edition about Beavers -- both currently available), and second to get the laundry clean. With minimal water the laundry rises all the way to the top and falls with the full weight and force of a wet towel -- not possible in a  vintage amount of water.  It works, especially with the constant saturation by the turbojets. There is nothing new about this method when you understand it as a refinement of rock pounding and washboard washing used for centuries. 

The rinse uses twice as much for dilution, etc., and since the load is clean,  the heavy falling and thrashing is no longer necessary which cannot happen anyway in the high volume of water used for rinsing.   

It takes some getting used to, especially for a dyed-in-the-wool TL Codger like myself.  But seeing is believing, and I am convinced. The clothes are clean, washed effectively in just over two gallons of water. To put it into perspective, my 18 pound Norge took almost two gallons just to fill the lower regions before you could see any water at all in the tub, and then another 18 gallons to wash, which it did marvelously just like the LG does.

Nice video ! Very Pro I think. that is a pretty machine. All that jiggling in the beginning is the washer trying to sense the weight of the clothes to determine how much water to fill. The motor has a torque sensor that tells it how much weight is in the tub.

I am amazed that you are able to change cycle elements on the fly like that, even in my Speed Queen once it starts there is no changing unless you Z out the whole cycle and start over. That kind of flexibility is a real plus.

Love the Cherry color!!

Thanks John. Yeah,  you can play those buttons & keys  & blinking dial like an organ.   I so hope you'll get one.  The Wild Cherry will one day be as sought after as your  Charcoal .

 More on the water later.  Lots to tell.  "On the  fly"  to LA at noon. Washing and packing and securing the premises like a squirrel. 

Memory trigger: Jon is right: what happened when I added a towel late in the cycle, and then just a T-shirt.