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When the marketing department gets more say than the engineers

First thing I'd assess if what is it made of? If it is Nylon you can't hurt it machine washing it. Canvas wouldn't be as color fast but all flags are pretty durable if they had any intention of being hung outside. As you mention they aren't really soiled so a quick cold wash with a little...

Hi Carla, First off welcome to the group! As for your leak I'd pull off the kick plate and lay on the floor with a flashlight during a cycle and see if you can see any leakage points. A dishwasher tub isn't really sealed up tight so a common leak happens if suds build up in the machine. You...

Did a bit of Google'ing around over lunch. While I didn't find anything explicitly stating you can't legally use the Schuko sockets in the US, the consensus is you likely won't pass inspection if that ever needs to happen. There is nothing physically with the high quality European sockets of...

American Made Of course that definition is hard to nail down. There is higher percentage of American labor in some Honda motorcycles than in "American Made" Harley's But indeed I don't see Audi or any other foreign automaker getting any law enforcement vehicle contracts in the US

Are the circular round-pin outlets as shown in the first photo UL listed? Obviously they work just fine, just wonder if they run afoul of any US NEC or local wiring ordinances. I think I'd want to run NEMA outlets in my home just to stay standard.

Hans, I don't think anyone has said that the possibility doesn't exist. But put it in perspective. A few units developed a problem out of millions sold. We all have things that are WAY more likely to get us. I know if I lost sleep over this possibility, I know I could never again cross a street.

Funny how humans can be paranoid of things that really aren't a risk and be totally comfortable with things that are more so. The car fuel tank is a great example. 20 gallons of gasoline holds more energy than 1000's of those freezers yet we don't bat an eye at the thought of that in the...

Exceedingly unlikely to ever happen. Even if the refrigerant was highly flammable one would need: 1. A leak (typically quite rare no?) 2. Accumulating the right fuel/air mixture to be ignitable. 3. An ignition source. It's totally blue sky here today, I don't have a lot of concern of being hit...

First off I'm not sure how one can see durability just looking at a photo. But there is no doubt that all products made today are subject to cost cuts. Those glorious old mechanical timers of the 60's that would run forever will never exist again due to cost of manufacture. Because of this I...

So if you use a Time delay fuse or circuit breaker then you can use 100 amp unit? Whoever worded that tag did a lousy job. I can't imagine installing any vintage dishwasher on a branch circuit under 20 amps. Any serious fault in the dishwasher will trip either size breaker. And yes it should...

Google searches are a poor replacement for actual electronics knowledge. Henrik I try to not be an ageist, but I graduated from electronics school 12 years before you were born. I have continued to work with electronics every day since and strive to stay current. Controlling an oven element...

Henrik, respectfully I think your experience with modern solid state high power electronics is behind the times. Back in the 80's I was working on vapor-phase surface mount soldering machines and the solid state relay modules had no durability issues switching 40Kw resistive heating arrays...

Even with a microprocessor there will always be some set point hysteresis. Of course with a microprocessor you could have more adaptive algorithm if they bothered to deal with overshoot and tailoring element wattage to cavity heat loss. There would be no need for different elements as power to...

I still use my 1987 Sony 2 channel 49Mhz phone at home for my Google voice number with my OBI End point. It is hard to find batteries for it anymore, I have to solder the connector wire onto batteries sourced from DigiKey. It has had two PCB solder joint repairs, one in the hand set and one in...

I use a bit of fabric softener on towels but only every other time or so to prevent build up. Don't feel it hurts absorbency at all but it does seem to help the loft. Powdered Tide sometimes with oxy bleach always in hot water. Tumble drying in a dryer without the blue light marketing gimmick...

Sure is a lot of off topic drivel in this thread. And of course a new thread won't change the facts. Nor the people that refuse to believe them.

That last thread did seem to bash heat pumps quite a bit. There was a lot of feel good dogma much as we see with gas vs electric/induction cooking and vertical axis vs horizontal washing machines. There will always be personal preferences and opinion, but neither of those can change empirical...

Heather, The only thing that would need replaced for the voltage change is the elements. There may be a voltage/wattage marking on the surface elements supports, but maybe not as it seems like you looked it all over.

What astounds me is the crazy proliferation of all the various sent boosters I see in the laundry product aisles. Stuff has to be selling if it is taking over shelf space. I know in my neighborhood at least two neighbors are buying it because I KNOW when their dryer is running... I think a big...