Thread Number: 57595
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
maytag washer a806 50hz pulley .made for use at 50hz power? |
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Post# 799977 , Reply# 1   12/20/2014 at 21:50 (3,405 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 799980 , Reply# 2   12/20/2014 at 22:03 (3,405 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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The pulley & belt kit takes care of the motor speed problem, but the voltage would need to be dealt with in some other way, maybe a transformer. Good luck and don't apologize for your English. I don't know one word of Swedish. European educational systems must be great. |
Post# 800070 , Reply# 7   12/21/2014 at 12:00 (3,405 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Hello Christer,
Welcome to the club of washer affcionados! If you ask me, letting an American washer run on 110V 50Hz isn't the biggest problem. Your biggest problem would be with the dryer. If you buy a 220V American electric dryer, IIRC you have a dryer with a heating element that runs on 220V and other components on 110V. That means that you can't just simply hook it up to a 230V connection in Europe. You will have to take care of that problem somehow. If you have natural gas, it might be easier to buy a gas dryer because those need 110V only. That means that you could use a transformer for both the washer and the dryer without any further hassle. If you can solve the problem with the slower speed of the washer, you still have the problem of the slower speed of the dryer too. The dryer will tumble slower, it might not divide the clothes through the drum enough for efficient drying. Can you work on these machines yourself? Louis |
Post# 800072 , Reply# 8   12/21/2014 at 12:10 (3,405 days old) by Chetlaham (United States)   |   | |
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