has any members seen the new whirlpool duet steam washer dryer set

[appnut]

Mark, your Normal/Casual cycle is far different than the cycle with the same name found on machines today.  Back when your machine was designed, Normal/Casual actually used more water and with medium speed tumbling, was the ideal "Wrinkle Free", "Permanent Press" cycle.  Now, that similar cycle with more water is called Jeans. Marketing "trickory" done to meet the Energy Star usage pattern as most consumers would think like yep, Normal is what I used to use and that's what I will use now.  A friend of mine, that's exactlyh her logic in doing her laundry.   Try to explain to her it uses the least amount of water of any cycle (I observed it when starting the various cycles with an empty tub).  Also, today's Duets will automatically adjust wash time based upon size and type of load it sesnses.  If I wash a huge load of towels it will add 24 minutes.  Whites 32 minutes added.  Most of my loads are quite large so I expect the time to be increased. 

 

[mark_wpduet]

Appnut

so basically are you saying that your Duet uses as much water as mine, only in the other cycles? So your Jeans cycle would use as much as my normal/casual etc? On any of the cycles on my Duet (other than the clean washer cycle) the water never touches the glass - EVER! Not even on delicate or soak.

Also, on my normal/causal, it does do medium drum rotation but it only fills with more water at the very end, like a minute or so, that's it; it drains from there..To me - that doesn't count, since the main wash is over anyway. But the main fill is the same as heavy duty/whites whites/Sanitary. They all use the same amount of water from what I can tell. I also notice the Sanitary fills at the end of the wash too, like normal casual does.