Another Secret Cycle on the 806

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You remember the Infinite Wash on the Suds Return cycle. Well, what do you want to call this new miracle?
If you press either spin speed button half way, both contacts are suspended and the washer will not spin.
Instead, it will soak through the spin, agitate for the rinse, then soak during Damp Dry and then forever with the original tub of water. Infinite Soak? Superba Soak? Power Soak? Or maybe, since we already have the terminology from Whirlpool, Super Soak. No new water is added because the level switch is satisfied.

 

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Should be spinning

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But it's not

Interesting that when I pressed the medium level button, the spray rinse commenced, of course, without spinning, so you can get more water in the tub, depending on what the original water level was; mine was low.

So I tried the same trick with the wash speed buttons, and the same thing happened. Fills and spins but no agitation. Wonder what kind of a laundry would appreciate this cycle, soaking and spinning without agitation?

What other hidden treasure does this 806 S have hidden waiting for discovery? Seeing Dan in Ken's old thread made me wish he were around to enjoy me becoming a devoted, die-hard Maytagarian.

 

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If your wheels are turning

You've probably figured out that you get nothing, if you half depress all speed buttons, no agitation, no spin.
Just a tub of still, silent water. Probably only useful if your kitchen sink goes on the fritz.

Happy Friday, People

 

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Last Judgment

A stainer, and heretofore disappointed with 806's less than perfect results, I used the Super Soak Cycle today on stained whites. Accustomed to the conventionals that wash for the time you set then soak till you get back to them, or the WP/KA's that wash then soak indefinitely as long as you leave the lid up, this Tag has left me a loss for extended soaking without intervention. No longer. Returning after 3 hours, the spaghetti sauce and the Maple "seer-up" were gone.

This machine may be the most versatile I've ever seen or experienced, so far in this lifetime. Again, when fellow members often waxed ecstatic about the 806, I would playfully muse that they had drunk the Kool-Aid or were blinded by religious fervor. Not any more. I am a believer now, also, and can easily imagine having a few more hanging around.

View from the beach: Sad to see the sun setting at 7:30 Eastern, when it seems like only yesterday, we had sun till 9:30.

 

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Back to Work

A stainer, I set a white and kaki load to repeat what I had learned the 806 was capable of after study: Pressing in both spin speed buttons half way, this preventing spinning, and turning the water tap switches off.

In the last study, the machine advanced through the cycle without spinning, only agitating, and I came home to a still soaking load, with the washer having stopped at the usual OFF spot after Damp Day.

But yesterday, I came home to this:

 

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The dial was stopped at the refill

After the 45 second first spin drain of the Permanent Press Cycle. Impatiently tapping its foot waiting for the first refill because the water taps were off.

So the timer has a mind of its own ??? How did it pass the Off mark and proceed from the Regular cycle to Permanent Press? I didn't break anything, because they timer worked perfectly on a non'modified cycle afterwards. Is there indeed a " deus ex machina," god in the machine?

Any illumination would be welcome.

 

[coldspot66]

Because of the circuitry of a Maytag washer, if the water level switch is satisfied, as in a soak mode, and the timer is energized, the timer motor will keep advancing through an "off" segment and continue to the next cycle. As long as the switch is in the "full" position, the timer motor will stay energized and travel through the off segment and continue through the next cycle. This could also happen if there was a drain blockage, and the tub did not empty.

 

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John to the rescue
No surprise
Full of wisdom
Old and wise

....But probably younger than I am, (laughs).

THANK YOU. I really couldn't figure it out. Had some cockamamy theory about default slow spin in the PP cycle if the buttons were not making contact and the timer didn't know what to do.

John, Is that why it did spin in PP yet not in regular?

But, I completely understand now, thanks to you, how the timer advanced: There's enough water in the tub, the switch is satisfied, so let's go Maytag. So glad to know that.
Another check on the Bucket List, lol.

 

[coldspot66]

I think the PP spin is normal speed..can't be changed..a different timer cam maybe, so that's why pushing the speed buttons halfway had no effect on spin in the PP cycle. CR always commented that Maytags had a short fast final spin on PP cycle instead of a slow spin, like most other washers with a PP cycle.

 

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Your brains humble mine, but now that I have the answer, it makes sense. With only 45 seconds for the first water throw, a slow speed one would not get enough water out to make the cooldown worthwhile. Amazing.

Happy/sad because now there are no more 806 mysteries for me--er, YOU--to solve.

Two months of study on this magnificent creature, and now I've got her down. She'll do anything for me.

 

[electronicontrl]

Wow

I was entertained by all of that. I have an 806 from 1976 and an 806S from 1968, but an 806S with 15 push buttons would be too cool.

 

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Michael, I love to entertain. THANK YOU !

Isn't John Coldspot amazing. There I was imagining magic, deuss ex machine, and secret Maytag conspiracy theories, blah, blah, blah, and it was a simple water level bladder working perfectly.

The other day using the same secret cycle, this time with the inlet valves open, I came home to find that the machine had completed the whole cycle. Pretty cool. So now I can either wash long and soak, or wash long and rinse like crazy. The more I study this machine, the more it reminds me of its conventional predecessor.

There's another secret cycle you might enjoy. I'll find it and link it for you later.