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I've been wanting to get one since they first appeared, but have waited for prices to fall and designs to improve enough, to be worthwhile for my low usage. The main issues I've read people complaining about in deals forums and reviews etc is clogged heat exchangers (and the difficulty cleaning...

That looks a neat design, I haven't seen a dryer with a perforated drum before. Mind, I haven't been in a launderette for a very long time. I did wonder why they don't make heat pump dryer with a drum with the holes in the side like that, with the heat pump evaporator below the drum, so the...

The magnetic attachments look quite neat

I think my least favourite dryer design was the Hotpoint Reversomatic by mum had, which was a "pair" for with her X2000 washing machine. It had the heating element at the front, covered by a half doughnut shaped metal panel the width of the plastic drum, and the diameter of the porthole was a...

Perhaps you could buy a cheap washing machine electromechanical timer, and 3d print your own cams or a disc for your own cycles? I vaguely remember seeing in a electronics catalogue or magazine, many years ago, long before the day of cheap microcontroller boards, arduinos and raspberry pi and...

I have seriously thought about building and programming my own washing machine control board on a number of occasions, mostly when I've had an error code or malfunction that could indicate one of multiple causes. The main difference to a regular board would be extra monitoring circuitry to...

It was actually a very nice machine, with intuitive controls with appropriate symbols on the nice sized buttons and labels below that attracted me to it, you didn't need to refer to a manual to understand any of the settings or chose the right wash, the first 8 programme numbers corresponded to...

Better reliability than mechanical timers/controllers was actually one of the advertised benefits for the microprocessor controlled Hotpoint washing machine my mum bought in 1981. Ironically, the one thing that failed on it after about 5 - 7 years, was the microcontroller itself, which was on a...

Even premium quality relays can stick sometimes. I saw a documentary about some of our 1950s aircraft, and a former pilot was talking about one, which of course had all electromechanical flight systems, I think it may have been the Handley Page Victor (V-bomber), and was saying that he was...

Oxygen bleach stain remover products containing sodium percarbonate, but without TAED/NOBS (so hydrogen peroxide) usually recommend 40°C and above. eg Astonish: https://astonish.co.uk/products/oxy-active-plus-fabric-stain-remover However it is much more effective at temperatures above 60°C...

Their ingredient lists are available here:- https://churchdwight.com/ingredient-disclosure/ There's no mention of TAED or bleach activator in the ingredient lists of a couple of the oxi-clean products I just looked at, but I've not gone through them all. Clorox 2 powder and their "packs"...

Here's a video showing a sensor being replaced (first video to come up on YT) - Probably need to be a little careful not to get the new sensor too hot while soldering it in.

I hadn't realised they'd now stopped selling Zanussi altogether, they'd already repositioned it as a low end budget brand. There also seems to be far fewer AEG branded models without a filter now, which are presumably made by the same factory as the budget Zanussi range were, so perhaps they're...

The EU specified, eco 40-60, is usually the longest wash on current UK machines, which I think is supposed to be equivalent to a 60C cotton wash using lower temperature, less water and longer duration. An actual cotton 40°C will obviously use a lot more electricity. Most of the energy consumed...

Here's a nice video of the keymatic doing a wash, showing the clutch mechanism as well. I guess Samsung's Quickdrive is the modern version, although doesn't look like it does much. Their addwash doors seem a bit pointless to me aswell, and it must weaken the door glass. I'd rather have a...

An H-axis machine? I assume Zanussi's patents related to the recirculation spout / "jet" passing through the door seal. Monotub's Titan, which also had a recirculation system, was first released around 2000, however it pumped the water though a hollow drum shaft and sprayed it out of the...

I don't know anything about US machines, least of all top loaders, but would it be worth running the diagnostic cycle and checking the timings against the chart (it's a different model in that video, so may not apply anyway), and also using whatever component test options it has (if it has a...

As mentioned in that video, Servis launched the first microprocessor controlled automatic washing machine, the Selectronic in 1976. This newspaper advert is for the 1980 model There's a thread here about it: https://automaticwasher.org/threads/the-machine-in-this-advert-is.31491/ Hotpoint...

That calls for a visit to The Washing Machine Guidance Counsellor - (Incidentally, I believe Arçelik / Beko now own controlling interest in Indesit and the associated brands, although I think whirlpool still holds a smaller interest)

Most surge protectors use MOVs - Metal oxide Varistors, their resistance decreases as the voltage across them increases, and decreases sharply above a specified operating voltage, following a sort of bathtub curve. You'll typically find at least one MOV on the circuit board in most switch mode...