fascinating
It seems to me that this might well be the best of both worlds. The suds-saver solution (which I always thought was so very clever of Frigidaire) together with heating.
What simplicity!
What clear thinking!
I can understand how you might be inclined to set it up this way. If water and electricity for heating it were at a premium, you would want such a solution - the automation involved makes my head spin. I have tried to list what "decisions" would be involved in a fully automatic heating and washing cycle.
1)Fill the tub with water, this means a water level sensor. ( Since you are building for low water pressure areas, timed fill doesn't make sense.)
2) Start the spin to spin the water out of the solid inner basket into the outer tub. Another water sensor? Or do it buy averaging? Or just install a cut off so the pump can't pump the water out of the machine?
(Not bad - we haven't even started to wash anything yet and already have at least one water level sensor and solenoid control for the pump.)
3) Now have the timer wait for the water to be heated to a pre-set temperature. Hmm, you could add an infinite thermostat or just say 120 degrees…or whatever. This is no big deal - you already have the sensor and light bulb set up, so this point would probably not cost more than a simple relais.
4) Pump the - now heated -water back from the outer tub to the inner tub. Another set of hoses and solenoids…probably at this point you are looking at a solution as complex as the Maytag suds-saver system.
5) Now you can wash and everything else follows pretty much the same pattern as our other well loved mulit-matics…except, of course, since you need to save water and the energy to heat it, you will have the first load spinning out through a separate hose to a separate sud-settling basin.
Did I miss anything?
It seems to me that this might well be the best of both worlds. The suds-saver solution (which I always thought was so very clever of Frigidaire) together with heating.
What simplicity!
What clear thinking!
I can understand how you might be inclined to set it up this way. If water and electricity for heating it were at a premium, you would want such a solution - the automation involved makes my head spin. I have tried to list what "decisions" would be involved in a fully automatic heating and washing cycle.
1)Fill the tub with water, this means a water level sensor. ( Since you are building for low water pressure areas, timed fill doesn't make sense.)
2) Start the spin to spin the water out of the solid inner basket into the outer tub. Another water sensor? Or do it buy averaging? Or just install a cut off so the pump can't pump the water out of the machine?
(Not bad - we haven't even started to wash anything yet and already have at least one water level sensor and solenoid control for the pump.)
3) Now have the timer wait for the water to be heated to a pre-set temperature. Hmm, you could add an infinite thermostat or just say 120 degrees…or whatever. This is no big deal - you already have the sensor and light bulb set up, so this point would probably not cost more than a simple relais.
4) Pump the - now heated -water back from the outer tub to the inner tub. Another set of hoses and solenoids…probably at this point you are looking at a solution as complex as the Maytag suds-saver system.
5) Now you can wash and everything else follows pretty much the same pattern as our other well loved mulit-matics…except, of course, since you need to save water and the energy to heat it, you will have the first load spinning out through a separate hose to a separate sud-settling basin.
Did I miss anything?
