F&P IWL12 <font color=#ff0000>Max Wash

[DADoES]

I used the Max Wash LifeCycle last night on a very small load of grungy hand towels and rags. (Cold water, with ColdWater Tide, impressive results!)

Auto water level sensing does function (of course) but there is no fabric sensing routine. The five soil levels give these preset agitation actions (in order of increasing time/intensity): Firm Wash, Firm+ Wash, Active Wash, Active+ Wash, and Maximum Wash. The Stained soil level (provides several alternating periods of agitation and soaking) drops it back to Active Wash. I used the highest soil level (not Stained).

I added the optional (2 hour) Soak. There are a couple agitation strokes every minute during the soak period, same as always. Interestingly, instead of heading into drain at the end of the soak period as would usually happen, there was another 5 to 7 minutes of wash agitation.

The estimated cycle time after EcoActive finished, the water level got settled, and deep wash agitation got started was 157 minutes (which includes the 2-hr soak).

 

[mickeyd]

first texan

So interesting, but i'm in the dark. What machine is that with such fascinating cycles.

 

[bpetersxx]

fisher and paykel

 

[frigilux]

DADoES-- Did you use powdered or liquid Tide CW? Isn't that detergent great?!

Also, I'm almost afraid to ask (seeing as I'm the lone person around here who would like to see FL'ers use even less water than they do now and I'm guessing that even as I write this Austin is sticking voodoo pins into a doll that looks like me...) but how many gallons of water did that cycle use? Were there really 5 separate washes or am I interpreting that incorrectly?

 

[DADoES]

Powder.

Five washes???? Noooooo!! Just one. My reference to the five soil level selections apparently was confusing. Max Wash by definition uses the five most intensive agitation actions, per the selected soil level as outlined above. The agitation action that is used, whether hard-programmed into the cycle or determined by fabric sensing, is reported by name on the display.

What I found to be the most interesting about the Max Wash cycle is that it did the extra agitation period after the soak phase, which isn't the usual case when the Soak option is used. Adding the optional PreWash would make it even longer, and does bring in an extra water change.

 

[frigilux]

Oh, that's so completely obvious now that I look back at that post. Sorry about the confusion. You definitely made the right choice in detergents!