Frigidaire TL'ers: Dumbing Down Gets Even...Dumberer

[frigilux]

Spent time in an indie appliance store in Winona, MN on Wednesday. Noticed the TOL Frigidiare TL'er has been dumbed down even further than my 2006.

Get this: The Automatic Temperature Control now works only on the hot water setting. I believe it dumbs down hot water to around 115-degrees. Which is not hot by anyone's standards.

There is no longer ATC for warm or cold wash water, which sucks, especially if you live in Minnesota, where the water is ice cold 8 months out of the year. Sure glad I purchased mine before this update took place.

Good God! What's next?

 

[roto204]

What's next?

Well, the next logical step, of course!

 

[frigilux]

Nooooooo!!!!!

 

[tlee618]

Nate I bet that Roger is going to get a laugh out of that one!! Sad to say but it probably isn't to far away.

 

[roto204]

LOL

He's probably on his way to the bathroom right now with his hand over his mouth...

 

[tuthill]

Well it's not like you could get clean clothes in one of those things even if the water was 200 degrees....

 

[frigilux]

Now, now, Jed...

I get sparkling clean loads from the Frigidaire TL'er! The unfortunate thing about them is you need to achieve just the right ratio of water to clothes. Too much water and clothing drifts rather than rolling over; Too little water and rollover slows to a crawl.

The tub is simply too big for the agitator. If one loads the tub to the third row of holes from the top (which is also the maximum programmed water level), it handles the load very well. Fill the tub to the top, there is a noticeable slowing of rollover, even if you add water to the top of the tub.

Having said all that, I'd hate to see the results when someone who knows nothing about the machine crams it full of clothes, closes the lid and walks away.

 

[gansky1]

Top loading washers?

传统的自上而下的负载洗衣机将成为过去的事，当新能源标准生效，在2012年。
说再见他们所有当我们有狮子的市场份额。
将不会有任何美国制造商离开后，我们获得我们手中的通用电气。

 

[frigilux]

Look at all them purdy symbols! What does they mean, Greg? What does they mean?

 

[funguy10]

Look at all them purdy symbols! What does they mean, Greg? W

I think he's saying the government ordered all companies to stop manufacturing Top-Load washers with agitators in 2012.

 

[jonv112]

Damn I wish I could take advantage of my Asian-ness and read Chinese, but sadly I was raised in Canada

 

[jeffg]

> I think he's saying the government ordered all companies to stop manufacturing Top-Load washers with agitators in 2012. <

Please tell us you're joking.

 

[tuthill]

Eugene yeah maybe your right. The Franklin has seen WAY better basket agitator set ups in its day. Another thing I've noticed is that the agitator (at least the straight vanes, I don't know about your dual action) fins are just too small to move water.

 

[roto204]

I think...

...that Greg was saying:

 

[frigilux]

Da-shiong bao-jah-shr duh la-doo-tze!

(Rough translation from Chinese: Oh, shit!)

 

[toggleswitch2]

Yes dears. Selling new top-loaders has been effectively outl

In which if the four tones, however does one say that in Chinese?

Ok girls I have the solution. You take a "Y" connector and place it on the washer's hot and cold solenoids. The other end goes to a regular washer hose. You clip the damn thing onto a kitchen faucet with a snap-coupler and use as much hot water as you damn please.



It may take $20 +/- worth of hardware and make the machine "semi-automatic" (i.e. you selct the temps) instead of automatic, but who cares? *LOL*

 

[toggleswitch2]

~There is no longer ATC for warm or cold wash water, which sucks

Then you have to MAKE ONE.

Take an ordinary mechanical thermostatic tempering valve.
Make sure to buy one that will give you a cold enough temp.

Hot to hot, cold to cold and mixed output to function as cold for the washer.....

(note that the "mixed" output is normally considered the tempered hot and is used with steam heating boilers that also generate hot water to bring the hot water temp to lower, safer limits when steam is being generated).

 

[lasvegasrox]

he said and i

Quote "The traditional top-down load washer will become matter, when new energy standard activation, in 2012.
Said goodbye them all when we have lion's market share.
After will not be able to have any American manufacturer to leave, we will obtain in our hand GE." i went o a free on line translator

 

[frigilux]

First: The Chinese ARE planning to take over the world!

Second: Online translators may cause WWIII.