GE Set Has Arrived!

[washerlover]

Dryer console

And its twin...

 

[appnut]

perm Press cycles on both

Todd, the Perm Press cycle on the washer, the cool down is an extended spray rinse while spinning.  Last time I used this machine (model), when the water level switch was tripped (reset) while draining, then it would begin to spray the load.  It may have stopped spraying before the end of the wash spin phase.  But it's definitely longer than the spray rinse on the normal cycle and doesn't wait for a couple of minutes while ramping up to speed and such.  In fact, if you know you want something that will have a little bit of extra rinsing, I'd use that cycle with the absolute longest setting you can eek out on the wash phase (which might actually be 10 or 11 minutes).  I'm not gonna search for the post, but someone posted above stating the Perm Press cycle on the dryer was an auto dry cycle.  Not true.  This doesn't have any kind of sensor dry.  It's timed dry all the way.  They just put "timer placement designators" on the dial to make it easy and no-thought drying of those fabrics.  Notice the 25 & 15 minute settings on that cycle.  the other difference is that this cycle has a longer cool down than the regular cycle. 

 

[washerlover]

And boy, oh boy does that dryer heat up! It's a very hot dryer and it doesn't seem to have much of a cool down at all on the normal drying cycle. And yes, appnut, you're right, it appears to have auto dry, but you can hear the timer ticking away in both cycles! And now after emailing the group about the GE FF Perm Press cycle and mini-basket, I must do a load tonite!

 

[spankomatic]

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Would love to see a photo of the lint filter in the dryer...</span>

 

[washerlover]

Shoot! Went right to the laundry room to take a photo of the dryer lint filter and my camera has a low battery...will hope to post a pic tomorrow. Any other requests?

 

[macboy91si]

Dryer

If you feel inside the drum on the front wall, behind the lint filter, there should be a sensor (around the center). My friend's model is like this, and it acts very much like my TOL Hotpoint dryer that I have, to the point where I didn't know. I had thought the perm. press side is auto dry like a normal GE, because there is a lower model with just times on both sides. My Hotpoint has 2 sensors up front, but the GE has only one. I figured the "25" and "15" were the "after sensor" run-on times. 15 and below seems to be cool-down. What is the sensor inside the dryer for? Did GE put their thermostat in the drum? Thanks for pointing that out.

 

-Tim

 

[tomturbomatic]

That bump in the front of the drum is the operating thermostat. GE advertised that with the new Hi Speed design dryer, the thermostat was not in the exhaust air stream, but right in with the clothes. This dryer's timer that goes up to 130 minutes in the regular cycle means that it could be used on 120 also, probabaly even with the PP cycle, too. Most GE dryers had only a one temperature thermostat, but when you selected low heat, only one of the two heating elements was energized so the temperature did not rise very high before delicates were dry. It is interesting that for many years, their TOL dryers did not offer a low heat setting and the Delicate setting on the auto dry cycle was usually criticized by CU as reaching temps maybe a bit too high for temperature sensitive fabrics. GE made some sort of change though because in the early years of the auto dry cycle, they said that delicates were dry in 8 minutes, but they later changed the ads to say that delicates were dry in 15 minutes. I guess they felt they were safe with the Delicate setting being so close to the cooldown at the end of the auto dry cycle that things could not get damaged by the heat if they were wet when they went in.

 

[washerlover]

Filter

Yeah, my dryer has the sensor in the bottom inside of the drum, but I can't believe this does anything in an "auto dry" capacity since the timer is audible in every cycle. Anyway, here's a pic of the filter per request...

 

[spankomatic]

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks for the photo! I have always loved this style lint filter. They are so easy to clean!</span>

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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jim</span>

 

[MaytagA710]

Yeah those lint filters were so handy to clean, required no work at all.

Oh how I dream some day to find a filter-flo set with an activator! Thanks for the uploads of the brochure sheets!