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Post# 852811   11/20/2015 at 11:54 (3,072 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA)        

Hello everybody. I was at Lowes yesterday and saw the new GE's. I noticed that it still had the agitator. The other one I saw had the infuser. The one with the infuser had the laundry detergent and fabric softener drawer. I tilted the GE machines and saw the new drive system. Does this washer have a gearbox like the whirlpool vmw or is it just a belt and pulley? I'd like to know. By the way, the new GE's have a lid lock.




Post# 852885 , Reply# 1   11/20/2015 at 18:56 (3,071 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA)        
different sounds

 I noticed that this washer sounds different from their hydrowave. It sounds more like a whirlpool/maytag vmw washer. How is this system different?

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Post# 852887 , Reply# 2   11/20/2015 at 18:59 (3,071 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA)        
infuser model

 Here is the infuser model.

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Post# 852888 , Reply# 3   11/20/2015 at 19:00 (3,071 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)        

there is reduction gearing between the drive pulley and the agitator/agipeller-just like a VMW whirlpool.The compact top load "impeller"(AKA pulsator)hitachi made washers GE sold ~1971-80,also had basicly the same drive setup:split capacitor motor coupled via a belt to reduction gearing driving the impeller(single direction on those old hitachi washers,motor reverses to engage spin)On a hydrowave though,agitator is coupled directly to drive pulley without a reduction gear train-pulley ratio is far higher in a hydrowave:motor pulley is ~1",drive pulley ~11",hydrowave's inverter driven motor can rev to ~10,000 RPM for spin-60 HZ driven motor of VMW(and new GE apparently) limited to~1700 RPM.

Post# 852900 , Reply# 4   11/20/2015 at 19:42 (3,071 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA)        
cycle programming

 I wonder what the agitation profile and spin speed are for the darks cycle.


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