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Post# 213711 6/2/2007 at 06:07 (6,165 days old) by bajaespuma  (Connecticut) |
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Post# 213713 , Reply# 1 6/2/2007 at 06:29 (6,165 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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...now GE claimed that the automatic portion of the cycle "automatically preset the proper drying temperature and shut dryer off and correct time". Being a button-pusher by nature, I always felt cheated by the fact that everything was controlled (supposedly) by the dial--especially when I discovered that the higher-end TOL's featured buttons to control the heat. But after studying GE's it seems that the TOL dryer tended to feature LESS controls rather than more ( I think they were right, women like my Mother didn't want buttons, they wanted simplicity). But with GE, as usual, there were always two trains running. My question is: how did this dial control system work? I know that the drying time was controlled by measuring the temperature of the air exiting the dryer--the timer would advance when the preset temperature(s) is reached. But did this dial also control the heater? 
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Post# 213758 , Reply# 3 6/2/2007 at 10:24 (6,165 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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What I'm asking is this: in 1960 and 1961 the TOL GE dryers had a contol panel that looked like this where one presumably set one dial to any variable setting between Delicate and Heavy. According to the marketing literature, the Dryer would set the heat according to the fabric and the correct amount of "dryness" would be reached.
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Post# 213759 , Reply# 4 6/2/2007 at 10:27 (6,165 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Then three years later, they market the same TOL dryer, with few changes only now, on what looks like pretty much the same panel with the same dial, now there are buttons to contol the heat. What, if anything,was controlling the heat before? Was this all a lie or did they simply transfer the heat control away from the dial to produce some buttons so the unit would appear to have more bells and whistles?
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Post# 213792 , Reply# 5 6/2/2007 at 15:55 (6,165 days old) by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass) |
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Sounds like a little white lie....there is no variable temperature tied to that first console..delicate just means less dry time and heavy means more dry time...temperature is not any different anywhere on the dial. | ||
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Post# 213829 , Reply# 6 6/2/2007 at 19:23 (6,165 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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Post# 213936 , Reply# 7 6/3/2007 at 07:28 (6,164 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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| Post# 214251 , Reply# 8 6/4/2007 at 13:00 (6,163 days old) by fa_f3_20 () | ||
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Well, they might have been "different temperatures" in the sense that the target shut-off temperature depended on the dial position. | ||
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Post# 214461 , Reply# 9 6/5/2007 at 18:15 (6,162 days old) by jeff_adelphi (Adelphi, Maryland, USA) |
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Post# 216327 , Reply# 11 6/15/2007 at 19:56 (6,152 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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