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Post# 845206   10/10/2015 at 23:11 (3,091 days old) by Supersurgilator (Indiana)        

I came across this link yesterday and was surprised what I found. I guess Speed Queen finally realized and redeveloped their commercial topload line. No more gray water rinses!!! The regular cycle does a wash with a spin rinse, like the normal eco cycle on the residential line. However if you select the heavy soil setting it will do a deep rinse. YAY!!

Also I've wondered why the Australian line of residential SQ's are made just like the US commercial line with the smaller lid opening etc.


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Post# 845293 , Reply# 1   10/11/2015 at 12:46 (3,091 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA)        
I'd like to know.

I agree with you. I'd like to know the same thing too.

Post# 845301 , Reply# 2   10/11/2015 at 14:15 (3,091 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))        

Those commercial SQs were designed to reach highest efficency levels that a laundromat owner wanted. A laundromat owner dosen't put clean clothes at first priority, they are more about low operating cost. Smaller tubs in TLs mean less water needed and the customer runs more washers. And, lets face it: Most laundromat users don't feel the difference between spray and deep rinse.

And as Australia has way more strict efficency requirements, they just took the HE base (which I think had a slightly smaller tub and a modified fill spray) and put it out as home version in Australia.


Post# 845346 , Reply# 3   10/11/2015 at 18:38 (3,090 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Route/apartment building coin-op laundries and other such places may "rejoice", but at least here in NYC you'd be hard pressed to find any laundromats that still use top loaders. They all have gone over to H-axis a long time ago.

Post# 845402 , Reply# 4   10/12/2015 at 05:42 (3,090 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))        
the customer runs more washers

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Or crams the same stuff in the smaller space, gets squat for results then complains about it. That's about par for cusstomers.

Post# 845418 , Reply# 5   10/12/2015 at 08:11 (3,090 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)        
PeterH

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Ping, chime in...............

Post# 845420 , Reply# 6   10/12/2015 at 08:22 (3,090 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)        
Agreed...

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The money saved by the establishment on the water bill is lost on repairs due to machine overloading and abuse. At least that would be my most educated guess.

Malcolm


Post# 845515 , Reply# 7   10/12/2015 at 21:32 (3,089 days old) by alr2903 (TN)        
The vend price....

.... did not change, that I could see anyway.  Looks like partial load would cost a bit less and Heavy would be  a  couple more quarters? 


Post# 845577 , Reply# 8   10/13/2015 at 07:30 (3,089 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))        

Actually, I doubt that a smaller tub would increase the cases of overloading. You can just overload any machine, and beyond overloaded, there is not closing any more. So, a customer that overloads would overload the smaller washer as well as the bigger washer.

But, given these use the same belt drive spin drain system, a spray rinse should significantly increase belt life due to basicly cutting the number of spray rinses in half. This could counter act the overloading. And given the greedy customer, they'd never select heavy soil if it was more expensive.



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