Hello washer enthusiasts. I posted a similar request in the Deluxe forum, but I'm also interested in figures for older machines, so I'm posting here as well.
I'm posting to ask if any of you can share energy and water use figures for any clothes washers you have or know about.
I run a consumer website where one of the popular pages is my Laundry Costs Calculator, which estimates the cost of energy and water for washers + dryers per loading per year. I'm in the middle of a major upgrade to the calculator, and I'm trying to find more specific energy and water use data to make the calculator more accurate. The kind of data I'm looking for isn't available from the user guides, customer support (I called every manufacturer), the EPA (their figures lump machine energy, energy for heating hot water, and energy to dry the clothes together, so it's impossible to see any of those individually), Consumer Reports, or Reviewed.com (except that Reviewed does list water extraction for some models). And yes, I've written to the EPA, CR, and Reviewed to ask about getting better data, but haven't heard back.
Here's what I'm hoping to find (the first item and at least one other item). I don't expect everyone to be able to supply every line, but the first line and at least one other would be very helpful.
(1) Make, model, and manufacture year of machine (or serial #), whether it's a top-loader or front-loader, and if you have it, capacity in cubic feet
(2) kWh for machine energy for a standard load (excluding energy for heating the water or drying the clothes afterward), measured with a Kill-A-Watt meter.
(3) Whether the washer regulates the hot and warm temperatures, or whether it just takes the hot supply as the hot, and 50% hot and 50% cold for warm.
(4) If it regulates the hot and warm temperatures, what those temperatures are
(5) Gallons of water for a wash cycle, gallons of water for a rinse cycle, or
(6) Total gallons for wash+rinse
(7) Water extraction efficiency (by weighing the clothes before and after washing, to see how much water is retained)
Thank you very much for any help you're able to provide!
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