Bauknecht TK EcoStar 72 A++ - First impressions

[henene4]

So, today was the day. They phoned at 7 AM, they arrived at 7:50. Actually, the online delivery tracking service told me 5 minutes earlier they are here.
Braught it downstairs, took the old one with them and placed the new one on its location. Took 15 Minutes in total, though, they left all the packing material here.
I did a 20 min timed programm and it got warm. It reverses and the fan works quite powerful. Not the most silent one, but not to loud.
I was only abled to take pics with my phone, but I'm kind of proud I could take all pictures without anybody takeing notice.
Picture 1: The packed unit.
Picture 2: The sticker with the model number.
Picture 3: The test load (finishes in about 30 min).
Picture 4: The unpacking manual.
Picture 5: The door.
Picture 6: Plastic foil removed.
Picture 7: Anothe sticker.
Picture 8: The unpacked unit on the styrofoam base.
Picture 9: A sticker, mentioning the heat up time (about 20 min).
Picture 10: The green cord.
Picture 11: The unit in its Palace.
Picture 12: Sorry, but the cord looks ridicolus. Same manufacturer, different cord.
Picture 13: Big drum (121l) with UltimateCare design (look at these paddles, they actualy exhaust air!).
Picture 14: Lint filter. Sonewhat small.
Picture 15: The bottom filter area.
Picture 16: The actual filter assembly.
Picture 17: The filter taken apart.
Picture 18: Most cottons cycles are under 2h, and delicate adds not more than 5 minutes.
Overall, it feels half solid, half cheap. Quite OK. It only has one sensor bar. Lets see how good it dries.

 

[henene4]

First Cycle

Right now, its doing its first load. The load consists of 11 hand towels (50cm*100cm), 4 wash clothes and 2 small hand towels (15cm*30cm).
I used the label cotton cycle. The first sensing extended the cycle time by 42min to 2 hours and 22 minutes. After about half an hour it reached temperature and did it first short reversing.
Picture 1: The load fresh from the Bauknecht.
Picture 2: The load in the dryer.
Picture 3: Selected label cycle.
Picture 4: Estimated Start time.
Picture 5: The Start/Pause button pressed.
Picture 6: First time calculation. Takes about half a minute.
Picture 7: Sensing tumbles.
Picture 8: Reestimated time: 2 h 22 min.
Picture 9: Reversing-phase 1 right at the Start: 3 seconds left, pause, 3 seconds right. Repeated twice.
Picture 10: Drying started.
Picture 11: One of the 2 dryer sheets sucked to the filter by the powerful air stream.
Picture 12: Finished! Took about 1h 20 min. Quite fast!
Picture 13: The lint screen afterwards.
Picture 14: The dry load.
Picture 15: The tank.
Picture 16: I am impressed! Everything emerged dry to the touch, soft and fluffy. Only the wash clothes stayed damp, but even this dampness is completly even. No moist spots.

 

[henene4]

Two Videos

First, at the start of the cycle. The noise level is pretty constant throughout the cycle.


And after about 20 minutes at about 45°C.


Right now I am drying a mixed load of 3 shorts, a pair of Jeans and some left over toweling. Its on the Mix cycle with low temperature. It ran the first 25 minutes in reverse direction so it heats up faster. And heated up is not that hot after all!

 

[logixx]

Very nice - can't wait to see the Woolens Pro cycle with that SoftMove technology!

 

Is it louder than the previous Siemens? I'm wondering because we had pretty much the same dryer (Siemens) and you have the same AEG washer as my landlord. I can clearly hear her AEG when my dryer is running but I barely heard the washer in your video. Makes my believe the Bauknecht is louder than the AEG?

 

Alex

 

[henene4]

It is louder. You can hear the washer a bit, but still, the dryer is slightly louder. My phone isn't the best soundwise, though.
I was surprised as well that it is louder.
I'll have to find a load first for the WoolPro cycle. Its still summer...

 

[henene4]

Suprise load!

I just found something that usualy is not dried nor wool. But still, I'll give it a try. But it'll take another hour till I can put it in the dryer.

 

[henene4]

Surprise fail!

Well, first my phone cam failed. Than, my own cam failed. Further, my dads new cam ran out of battery. So I had to use his old one.
The surprise load was my school back pack. Washed it on delicates and spun it at 400 RPM. Than I stuffed it with news papers to absorb excess moisture.
I filmed 6 minutes of the WoolPro cycle, but stoped it after 6 minutes as it was quite loud.
On the topic of SoftMove, I can't see any difference at all...

 

[logixx]

Looking at that video, the Wollens cycle is supposed to turn the drum half way and reverse...

 

 

[henene4]

WoolPro

So, here's the video. Uploading took quite long and I found no time posting it here...



Please excuse the bad quality. I had to reset and reload my camera first.

 

[henene4]

Super Delicate

I originally had 4 parts of the Super Delicate cycle recoded, but failed uploading and I couldn't make them work again.
So, the first video is the start of the cycle. Everything should be in the description, but if you have quaestions, feel free to ask!

 

[henene4]

Super delicate part 2

Again, everything in the descripton.



Some notes: When low temp selected, the heating phase tumbles the opposite way (counter clockwise). I really have no clue why.
The 3rd part showed the reastimated time after the cycle continued to 4 minutes left (usually, the cool down phase starts there) and than jumped up to 1:30 h. At that point I took the square pattern shirt out. The rest was completly dry after 30 minutes (So, the cycle took 1h 20 minutes round about).
The last part showed the anti crease phase.
I did another video in which I foud out the door switch is triggered with the door still open and the switch triggered by my finger. But stupid me deleated it.