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Top Loading Washing Machine with Built In Heater |
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Post# 150168   8/23/2006 at 18:29 (6,456 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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A poster mentioned that the GE Harmony washer did a type of proflie wash by heating water after a period of washing with a cold fill. Cannot find any information on GE's website as to weather or not the Harmony washers have a built in heater, but this raises a question that has been on my mind for some time. How difficult would it be to design a top loader with a built in heater? Know some vintage Hoovermatics and solid tub washers had this function and it does seem an answer to the problem of top loaders being "hot water" hogs. The heater design in question could either have elements between the two tubs to heat water as it recirculated, or maybe just route water though some sort of built in inline water heater like many European dishwashers. Thoughts? L. |
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Post# 150175 , Reply# 1   8/23/2006 at 19:27 (6,456 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 150194 , Reply# 3   8/23/2006 at 21:17 (6,455 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 150196 , Reply# 4   8/23/2006 at 21:23 (6,455 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 150230 , Reply# 7   8/24/2006 at 03:58 (6,455 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK)   |   | |
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Post# 150238 , Reply# 8   8/24/2006 at 05:08 (6,455 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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All the UK Agi Top Loaders (Hotpoint Servis) have heaters in them as well as twinnies, most us a bowl with the heater and pump outlet in like the twinny pic below, and the wash/spin basket sits above... Normally 3KW 240v, the hotpoint takes on average 1.5 hrs to reach 95c (204f)from cold.You wouldnt want to be doing that every wash... All of these where hot & cold fill with ATC mixing linked to the individual programme. CLICK HERE TO GO TO chestermikeuk's LINK |
Post# 150253 , Reply# 9   8/24/2006 at 06:53 (6,455 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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The GEHarmony will heat to a maximum of 140 degrees on the White Cottons cycle. Some of the stain cycles include water heating, but I don't have a list of which ones do or don't. The Super Clean cycle starts with cold water and will heat to warm or hot depending on which temperature you chose. I don't think its hot temp is a targetted 140 degrees, but more like 125 or 127 in the Super Clean cycle. I would like to find more detailed technical information on this great machine, but it is somewhat coveted by GE. MRB |
Post# 150254 , Reply# 10   8/24/2006 at 06:56 (6,455 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 150340 , Reply# 12   8/24/2006 at 18:13 (6,455 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Hot water on my Miele starts at 120F, the traditonal setting. Warm is 100F, and cannot truly call 112F water "hot", IMHO. With this in mind, there are bound to be limits of what a 120V/15 amp washer can do in terms of heating 15 or more gallons of water. Imagine how much fun it could be if GE had put say a 3,000 watt 220v heater in that baby. It would give one a "copper" boil wash, just like the old days. L. |
Post# 150505 , Reply# 14   8/25/2006 at 14:38 (6,454 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 150898 , Reply# 15   8/27/2006 at 16:36 (6,452 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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