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Post# 94821   11/20/2005 at 02:45 (6,725 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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I tried the "Sports/Muddy" LifeCycle on my F&P IWL12 yesterday evening. I had a couple pairs of jeans with muddy knees from yard work. One had been sitting for a week, the other was fresh from the afternoon. Six pairs of jeans in the load. The cycle seems to be intended for clothes substantially more muddy/dirty than that, but I figured this is as close as I may ever get. All fills are cold. The user manual says warm or hot water sets mud. Soil level automatically sets for high. Tide Coldwater. :-) The cycle begins with a 5-min prewash and drain (no spin). Next is a cold EcoActive wash, and a cold deep wash, both for the longest possible time due to the soil level selected for maximum. Interesting that it tried to agitate after EcoActive, but *before* beginning to fill for the deep wash. The basket hadn't floated, so of course it couldn't agitate properly, and it went on with the fill. I don't recall seeing it do that before. It could be a one-time 'glitch' or maybe the EcoActive phase on this cycle fills a little more than usual which causes water level pressure to be at low level when recirculation stops. Drain. Spin with sprays. A deep rinse, agitated *longer* than usual. Drain. Spin with sprays. Another deep rinse, agitated for the normal length. Drain. More spin sprays. Final spin. The entire cycle took about 68 minutes. Other cycles have two deep rinses, but I believe this is the only cycle I've seen (thus far) that spins before both deep rinses, with sprays both times, and also the only one with sprays in the final spin. The muddy knees came out clean. |
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Post# 94840 , Reply# 1   11/20/2005 at 08:51 (6,724 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 94845 , Reply# 2   11/20/2005 at 09:51 (6,724 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 94858 , Reply# 3   11/20/2005 at 12:43 (6,724 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Yes, it stops and beeps to signal for adding more detergent. A cold prewash can be added to any cycle at any time, it just happens to be included by default on a couple of the pre-programmed LifeCycles. After a LifeCycle is selected with the various parameters preset, most of the usual things can be still be adjusted. The prewash could be eliminated, a different water temp selected, (probably) Traditional Wash to skip EcoActive, a lesser soil level, a specific water level, etc. I'm pretty sure the extra rinses would remain in effect, however. Prewash is always cold, and I don't know in this case if a temp adjustment would affect both EcoActive and deep wash. Many combinations of cycle and option are possible on this machine. |
Post# 94859 , Reply# 4   11/20/2005 at 13:10 (6,724 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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