Addition to my collection: LG Turbodrum

[rapunzel]

So, it overrides your manual water level selection?

Hi Louis,

My rule of thumb with water levels is to loosely load dry clothes into washer and select water level to come up to the height of the load. Looking at the dry load in your machine I would have thought that water should only have come up to the fourth or, perhaps, third hole from the top of the basket down.

Once dry clothes become saturated they compact and create enough space to allow for turn-over. Of course it depends on the types of materials that are being washed, but your load looks like a regular mix without heavy or unyielding materials that get water-logged and require more room to move. Your amount of laundry looks like a half-load in my washer.

I've used a Haier top loader of similar design at a client's home. It had both auomatic and manual water level selection. Being the control freak that I am, I've used the manual option and it did not automatically top up the water level.

Overriding your manual selection may be a design quirk particular to LG or the electronics that control this function aren't working properly anymore.

Your machine has travelled half way around the world and was probably bumped and shaken. That's the thing about complicated high tech stuff, when it works right it's magic, but it's sensitive and prone to go bung at the drop of a hat.

Is there a program rest-function on your machine?

Anyway, don't let this spoil your fun. There is nothing more soothing than watching laundry swirl through hot sudsy water. ;0)

Cheers

Olav

 

[foraloysius]

Jon,

I'm out of Dixan at the moment. I will buy some again when I'm through the enormous stash of detergent I now have.

This machine fills indeed very properly, perhaps a bit too.

Olav,

I did indeed fill the machine loosely with clothes, I'm not totally unexperienced with toploaders. ;-)

I noticed before that this machine is topping up automatically. In the beginning there was some water leaking out of the filter. I knew that the filter wasn't put in it's housing as it should be but it was at night and I was dying to use the machine. Because of the loss of some water it topped up several times. I think this is the way LG designed this. If it senses that the clothes aren't moving around freely enough it will add extra water.

There is indeed a program rest function. You can see it in the picture that I took in the dark. There were 79 minutes left (due to soak option and extra rinse).

I sure won't let this spoil my fun. I wanted this machine because it was different. And different it is. I like diversity, an all Miele collection would be rather boring!

 

[jetcone]

Diversity YAY!

Bendix, Bendix, Bendix, Frigidaire,Kelvinator, Blackstone,Westinghouse,Bendix

Ahh diversity.....

 

[rapunzel]

There is indeed a program rest function. You can see it in t

Uhm, no. I've looked really hard, but the picture is too dark. ;0) All I see are little red dots and a yellow 79.

BTW, sorry if I sounded like a know-it-all. Of course you know what you are doing. I think I wrote that more for my own benefit rather than yours - just to remind myself of what I have to do.

 

[foraloysius]

Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought you meant remaining time, but perhaps I had too much Dutch in my head. Remaining time translates to "restterende tijd". What exactly did you mean by program-rest function?

 

[rapunzel]

I need glasses Louis

Until you've just pointed it out, I kept reading it as 'reset' not rest function. Not only can I not spell, I am as blind as a bat. I am sorry Louis, my bad.

 

[foraloysius]

No problem Olav! It was nice talking with you about the toploader which name you once used.