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OOOPS...

...spoke far too soon! I should have watched the whole video.

My apologies. (red faced, slinks away into a corner).
 
Again the doors on the machines should be transparent so you

If my washer, dryer, and dishwasher all had transparent door, I would get any work done, I would be to busy watching everything wash and dry, LOL.
 
'Another one of the ProClean dishwashers: '

Interesting and strange how the bottom wash arm turns by increments. That orbital red doobimagic doesn't seem to fully cover the cutlery basket with its spray either.
 
Dishwashers with so-called powerful pumps

I'm sick and tired of dishwashers with so-called powerful pumps! You take the dishes out of the dishwasher, only to be forced to wash them by hand! Who has time for this? I don't! Why do you think I have a dishwasher? So that I could wash my dishes! My point voyager Whirlpool Gold dishwasher at my dad's house has a powerful pump! That used to be my mom's dishwasher! I don't like washing dishes by hand! Why do we buy dishwashers? So that we could wash our dishes! Apparently, that's not what a dishwasher is for! Give me a dishwasher with the powerful pump and I'll be happy! Shame on the feds for reducing dishwasher pump power! Then they have the audacity to call that a powerful pump! Who do they think they are?
 
Yikes....

This thread was started not long after I became a member here...

Low power pumps does not equal poor cleaning. DishDrawers have a pump that is only about 50-80w from my recollection, and still clean awesomely, IMO.
 
It's not necessarily the low power pumps that are the problem, it's more the saturation of gimmicks and marketing towards things that don't make a big difference, and less attention to the details that matter. If a manufacturer can design a motor and pump that outputs the power needed but only uses the energy in an hour that a previous motor used in a minute, I'd be all over it.

It seems that here lately, brands like Whirlpool have improved their current machines to the point that they would actually be desirable. As far as I know, the motors used in the first generation of the "resource saver" design were ~100W, give or take. Upon looking at parts diagrams for the updated models now, the motor is 55W, but is a little more powerful with a modified impeller and chamber. They're apparently better at backwashing the filter to drain out the collected particles, as the manual now states to clean it every few months if you don't prerinse, rather than the previous "after every load" instructions. This is just from what I've heard and read though, so I may be wrong. End point, they have been doing better, it's just taken time to work out the kinks.

Remember when people hated the Voyager design when it first launched?
 

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