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Thread Number: 7012
Question about a Philips Whirlpool AWG752 |
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Post# 138506 6/28/2006 at 13:55 (6,508 days old) by foraloysius  (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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A friend of mine has a frontload washer, Philips Whirlpool AWG752. She is not very interested in doing laundry and washers, but since her washer started to smell I gave her some advice. For instance what detergent to use, what cycles etc. This machine has a timer, a temp. control, a spinspeed control, an on off button and another button. I am just wondering what that other button is for. Here's a picture, it's the button with the tub pictogram in the yellow square. Does anybody know what that button is for? I know it's not a rinse hold button since that is on the spinspeed control.
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Post# 138508 , Reply# 1 6/28/2006 at 14:38 (6,508 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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Could it be waterlevel? That style looks old enough to be pre auto sensing. | ||
| Post# 138524 , Reply# 2 6/28/2006 at 15:16 (6,508 days old) by fredriksam (Sweden) | ||
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I,m pretty sure the button is for "gentle" wash. In old VDN for clothes that symbol means: gentle wash with high water level, spin max 1 min. | ||
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Post# 138543 , Reply# 3 6/28/2006 at 15:53 (6,508 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 138551 , Reply# 5 6/28/2006 at 16:05 (6,508 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Kirk, This machine has a cottons cycle, a delicate cycle and a wool cycle. There is not a real synthetics cycle, with older Philips machines you just used the cottons cycle with reduced spinspeed. I'm not sure, but I don't think this is a Merloni machine. This machine sounds like a real Philips and is from the era just after Whirlpool took over Philips. Louis | ||
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Post# 138694 , Reply# 8 6/29/2006 at 01:26 (6,508 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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details
I don't remember the exact details, but have pasted the link to them in the picture, attached. The machine had, at the very least, the Wollmark certification, so I could imagine the button actually did do something. Just what...been too long and I was already stink sauer regarding Whirlpool in Europe. This was the era when Philips was begining to get rid of lots of albatrosses - Grundig, too. I said era, not month and week. Funny, their quality in many areas is outstanding, in others so-so and it doesn't bother them one bit. I do know that Siemens Medical takes them as competitors very very seriously and that is one reason not even their idiot managers are permitted to cut corners - they have to keep the quality up to compete against Philips MRI products. 
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Post# 138701 , Reply# 9 6/29/2006 at 04:08 (6,508 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Symbols
Hi Louis I`m sure its the symbol for the high water level to be selected with the delicates & synthetics, this machine had the simple timer with the other controls for temp & spin, this option simply gave you the high water level enabling a more delicate wash.And its the international yellow colour for delicates/gentle action. I think this could be after the 090 series and possibly be merlioni made, that squareness gives it away. Mike | ||
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Post# 138705 , Reply# 10 6/29/2006 at 04:56 (6,508 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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I suspect this is right,
but not being sure left it with the details listed above. Our shop just through these out when one came in on a trade, they weren't worth repairing in our boss's eyes...There were several Merlioni products with this concept for a while. I think Stiftung Warentest gave them high marks for washing out the detergent residues well, but serious demerits for their counter-balance weights cracking and breaking... | ||
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Post# 138748 , Reply# 11 6/29/2006 at 09:42 (6,507 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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Merloni made?! gasp! So are some Whirlpool front loaders made by Merloni? I thought that Whirlpool had its own factories? or did they do a mixture of both? Thanks chris. | ||
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Post# 138754 , Reply# 12 6/29/2006 at 09:51 (6,507 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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I just looked up the textile affairs website posted by Panthera. The symbol looks like the permanent press symbol. (water vessel with a line under ) Chris. | ||
| Post# 138781 , Reply# 15 6/29/2006 at 11:59 (6,507 days old) by askomiele (Belgium Ghent) | ||
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My washer has the same button. It decreases the wash rhythm and increases the water level in the coton cycle. In the synthetic it decreases only the wash rhythm. In délicats and handwashing it has no fonction! | ||
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Post# 138807 , Reply# 16 6/29/2006 at 14:50 (6,507 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Thank you all for your responds. I will mail my friend with the results of my question. If I had some more time I would go there and see what it would do. This is the first time I saw such a machine working. The jury doesn't seem to be out on the Merloni question. To me the motor sounds like a real Philips, it sounds almost the same as my Philips toploader, with the PM motor.
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