Thread Number: 57451
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Looking for some help controlling a FL washing machine motor |
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Post# 798139 , Reply# 1   12/8/2014 at 12:26 (3,398 days old) by revvinkevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)   |   | |
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Hello Ali and welcome to AW!
I cannot answer your question because that info is WAY above my pay grade (LOL), but I have a few questions:
Why are you looking to change the spin speed and time, what are you trying to achieve?
How long and how fast do you want it to spin?
Are you planning to use it for something other than laundry?
Just curious, thanks!
Kevin
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Post# 798146 , Reply# 3   12/8/2014 at 13:27 (3,398 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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I can understand Ali's request.
When my Affinity spends more than the length of the actual spin cycle trying to get the load balanced (grrr), once the balanced load goes into spin, it's for an abbreviated period. Usually after such a short spin the contents are still way too wet, so I select the "Spin Only" cycle and cross my fingers that the load will be quickly balanced and receive a full-length spin. I have about a 50/50 success rate at best.
One thing I'd be concerned about is spinning an out of balance load for an extended period. I think that's asking for premature and expensive trouble, and of course any override of the washer's design is going to void the warranty. |
Post# 798375 , Reply# 6   12/10/2014 at 05:14 (3,396 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Things to consider:
You probably don't want it to spin faster. Some of these machines destroy themselves and anything nearby even at their programmed speed. It's readily possible for the motor control to tell the timer when it's balanced/not. So that the timer can extend the spin period to actually SPIN instead of burning most of the allotted time TRYING to spin. From what I've seen, it's seldom implemented. It would be a pretty elegant redesign to retrofit such a feature. But it's doable. Up to a point. If the timer is mechanical and the motor controller digital, you'd need to pick off a signal from the MC that confirmed balance was achieved. Then use that to gate the timer motor so that it only advances AFTER balance. This could also be used to extend spin with a programmed delay which could even be variable. If both timer and MC are digital, the provision must exist on the timer for a 'hold' command. If such doesn't exist it would be very difficult to retrofit. It would be easier to build a digital timer from scratch. Robert has done such things. I could too but at this point my most practical approach was to buy an inexpensive Chinese twintub which is intended to be operated manually then stand there and do so. Towels come out of the spinner dry enough to use (maybe a bit clammy) after 3 minutes and manual/supervised balancing. Given the right mechanical platform it is readily possible to build an automatic that is as smart as you are. Sounds like fun, as Capt Kirk said to Capt Picard in Star Trek Generations. (But then he died.) |