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British-made Hotpoint top-loaders were designed to perform dry agitation during the fill cycle from the early 1980s onwards. During the wash fill, the machine would agitate for roughly 7 seconds per minute. These models were equipped with Automatic Temperature Control. The idea behind the dry...

One aspect that wasn't touched on is fabric gentleness. I recall a thread where someone mentioned that, in their experience, the Whirlpool Surgilator provided the best cleaning performance among the automatics they’d used—but it was also the harshest on fabrics. Interestingly, Consumer Reports...

I'm surprised by how stark the difference is between the Whirlpool results and those from Maytag and GE. I wonder if that’s because the exact same load size was used for each machine—one that the Whirlpool handled well, but was too large for the GE and Maytag models, resulting in poorer...

Haha, yes -- I too noticed that he butchered the pronunciation the first time round and then in the second video it was pronounced perfectly 👍🙂

Well at least your chandelier didn't die quite as dramatically as this one!

Ours is set to 23 ℃ / 74 ℉ during the day and then 20 ℃ / 68 ℉ for sleeping. The small apartment in Madrid has a 2.3-ton (8 kW) central forced-air system that cools and heats (heat pump). It's variable speed and just coasts along silently on low speed even in the height of summer. The...

It was indeed a lot of water for such a small load. But I did select the "water plus" option (or whatever Siemens calls it) which could explain it. I could try a load of towels without that option. If I washed double the amount of towels, it would be interesting to see by how much the water...

Another great experiment there, Robert. Keep them coming! I'm surprised at how little water remained in your towels after spinning. Are they 100% cotton? I've just washed a small load of thick towels. The load weighed 2.65 kg (5 lb 13 oz) when dry and 4.46 kg (9 lb 13 oz) after being spun...

I installed both new capacitors wired in parallel and unfortunately there was no change. It was still agitating and neutral draining fine but the spin was still sometimes working and sometimes not. I also tried holding the basket stationary while set to spin and the same thing was happening...

Great thread, Robert! I have never measured the consumption of my gas dryers. Another way to do it would be to look at the flame and time exactly how long in total the gas is burning throughout the cycle and then calculate consumption based on the known burner rating, assuming the burner is...

Sorry, yes what I wrote was ambiguous. What I meant was that I was not sure how you would measure the rinsing result if you tested the laundry or final rinse water prior to the final spin, as a faster-spinning machine would extract more of the final rinse water and would presumably give a...

I love tests like this, Robert! You can buy garden hose water meters on Amazon that will enable you to easily measure the exact water usage for each part of the cycle. I have two myself. As for the gas, you could set a camera to record the dials of your gas meter when the dryer is used (or...

Thank you, John. I've ordered two capacitors, identical to the current one (3348058), and I'll post an update once it's/they're installed.

That would make sense, Sean. The thing is, I don't know enough about these machines to say if the clutch can sometimes grab too much and cause the motor to continuously switch in and out of the start windings. So it's not possible for me to diagnose the problem. I could of course just start...

Hi John @combo52 I have some more info, after doing a few more tests. I think I have a slightly clearer idea as to what's happening during the clicking sound in the video above. When the machine has trouble picking up speed at the start of spinning, I think the motor is repeatedly switching in...