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Thread Number: 8436
new dishwasher; should i be happy, or cry? |
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| Post# 159713 10/10/2006 at 20:46 (6,406 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
Well, the management finally replaced our broken Frigidiare dishwasher today. I was practically promised a "Roper" machine but...that's not what I got. What i got is far more interesting. A Haier. It's Chinese, 100 percent. I don't even know where to start. It looks to me that this machine is a direct rip off copy of both a GE and a Whirlpool machine. - it has the whirlpool door and control panel, as well as timer due to the tell-tale whirlpool cycle sequence with purge. - it has a whirlpool stainless steel wash arm that is not propeller-like but still sprays inward toward center. - it has a GE Power Tower - it has a GE Triton pump system with the dual CircuClean pump. Both these pumps are sourced directly from GE since they have the GE stickers plain in site. - the top rack is a rough copy of a standard GE rack - tank is unique but resembles a whirlpool tank so i'm thoroughly pissed off that i got a chinese machine. but glad that it's a GE at heart with a whirlpool water distribution system. it's just so shocking to me that Haier would be so blatantly obvious that they just copied other machines. Granted that it has these tried and true GE and Whirlpool components, but they're bolted to the worst quality appliance i've ever seen. it's clearly a piece of crap that had no original thought put into it whatsoever. it's a mutant, a bastard child of other manufacturers' ideas...and it goes against everything I stand for and what I value. but...it's in an apartment that's not mine. as long as it washes well i guess i can tolerate it. but it pisses me off still that my management is buying this trash and just encouraging Haier more with profits. oh where has this world gone? CLICK HERE TO GO TO johnb300m's LINK | ||
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Post# 159722 , Reply# 1 10/10/2006 at 20:59 (6,406 days old) by toggleswitch  (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 159724 , Reply# 2 10/10/2006 at 21:01 (6,406 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 159725 , Reply# 3 10/10/2006 at 21:04 (6,406 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 159741 , Reply# 4 10/10/2006 at 21:49 (6,406 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
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you bet I will. it will be very full tonight. funny thing about the "BobLoad." I always loaded my machines up like that before it had a name. You know the old Cascade Complete commercial where the lady bakes a cake, then dumps the whole cake in a PowerClean Whirlpool? Well....I DID THAT! I put half of a stale angel food cake into our GE Triton XL. It ran on Normal Wash, Xtra Hot wash. The machine protested in the first two fills, but afterwards, it did fine. No more Cake. I could never do that in this basic machine, but you bet your ass my dishes will always be filthy going in. Real soon i'll get some photos up of the filthy going in/ clean coming out BobLoad. | ||
| Post# 159756 , Reply# 6 10/10/2006 at 23:18 (6,406 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
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| Post# 159845 , Reply# 8 10/11/2006 at 16:10 (6,405 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
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Hair's Maiden Voyage
Well the Haier did its first load last night. EVERYTHING came out spotless! Except for a stainless steel pan that had scrambled egg on it. But not many machines get that off anyway. - The Haier did fantastic in the upper rack due to the powerful pressure of the GE pump and spray pattern of the GE PowerTower. The Whirlpool wash arm did quite well on the bottom. That thing gets me though, how it's able to clean all the plates when the jets spray inwards...consiquently spraying at the BACKS of the plates...lol, IDK. | ||
| Post# 159853 , Reply# 9 10/11/2006 at 16:53 (6,405 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
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For Toggles
Toggleswitch wanted to know about the GE dual pumps. An Engineering perspective: Whether in a GE or a Haier knock-off of a GE, the systems with dual pumps work like so. - Main pump circulates water after the fill. water and food soil is sucked through the first coarse filter. then through the hard food disposer with unusually large grind holes [shame on you GE]. In a Triton, the water is then pumped to the distribution system, and onto dishes. the water falls and returns to the sump, where a fraction of water falls into the rear fine filter chamber, gets filtered, and returns to the sump. As the machine runs, water is sprayed at the rear fine filter, pushing collected soil into a chamber under the filter. During drain, the QuietMotor shuts off, and the auxilary pump starts, sucking water out of the sump, into the collection chamber under the rear filter, which in turn, closes a piston, sealing the chamber, allowing water and soil to be forced out and into the house drainage. 
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Post# 159901 , Reply# 10 10/11/2006 at 21:34 (6,405 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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