Hoover Spin Noise

[haxisfan]

How cunning...

I see... nice wording there... "use of quality recycled components" meaning 'use of second hand components that looked right but that probably weren't'.

Why do I get the horrible feeling that Hotpoint is not the only one to adopt this policy?

You don't wanna know what I'm thinking!

 

[nrones]

Ex Aqualtis

They are deffinatley doing it! Now I know where my Aqualtis gone LOL

Solsburian, I hope your Hoover will be repaired, and I"m really sorry due to your bad luck

 

[aeg03]

Absoloutely no way is the noise due to the material in the drum hitting the rubber triangle! Listen at 07:17, some component within the machine is hitting a metal piece inside. This is very similar to some Hotpoint videos I have seen on Youtube. I don't know if its the tub hitting the shell or what but it doesn't sound very good. I have never heard this from my AEG (which spins very unbalanced at times) The only thing I had was the drum hit the glass which I could see visually.

Comparing the two videos, the Miele and the Hoover you can see which one is better and clearly it is the Miele, it doesn't make no horrible rattle sound when ramping up. The only sound it is making is the rubber seals which my AEG makes when it spins unbalanced.

Please see my video and watch at 0.44. The noise my machine makes is when the drum has smacked the glass but no noise came from the tub hitting the shell.

 

[aeg03]

Drum hitting glass at 1.42. Despite this happening, there appears to be plenty room internally for the tub to move about.

 

[haxisfan]

@aeg03

At the point you specified the machine is actually hitting the cabinet in exactly the same way as nrones' Candy but it does not go into spin as the OOB control intervenes... it does it again later for a few seconds and then it disappears when the machine ramps up to a faster but still reasonably slow spin.

Your AEG seems to shake a bit... does it actually move? I mean, do you find yourself having to push it back into place from time to time?

I wonder when this competition better/worse or Miele/Hoover will end!!

I know I was the one to post the link to show the Miele but I was only providing an example of a comparable scenario without offering gratuitous pieces of judgement... I was merely stating some facts without saying... this is better... that is worse... duuuh.

 

[nrones]

That at 7:17 is a sound from suspension (that could be better, I noticed that on my GrandOPlus too), excuse me, are we talking about moment in the spin, or the whole spin? I see that Hoover made different noises to AEG and Miele, but only when it was starting a OOB thing. When it rebalanced, and started the actual spin all 3 of them sounded exactly the same.

 

[aeg03]

I think that there is a problem with manufacturers cramming bigger drums/tubs into standardized cabinets. This is not an argument as to which is better or worse, duhhh! What is most important from all, is reliability. If a machine is banging it's components within itself then I would be concerned regarding how long a machine would last regardless of what make or model.

No my AEG doesn't move. Only once it's moved slightly. I would say that the reason why its stable because the AEG is one heavy machine. Much heavier then the previous makes we had before (we has a lot of difficulty in moving it) It appears to be of a quality construction. Not sure if the newer ones are the same.

 

[fl1012]

Aeg03......

Your AEG is still going then? I thought i remembered you having a problem with the electronics skipping a section of program or something similar not to long ago?

The drum moves about quite like our current Zanussi washer-dryer, which i think must be from around the same era (early 2000s)?

Like you said, drum movement isn't so much of a problem when the drums are small but with the increase in drum sizes, something has to give in the cabinet & this seems to be space for the tub to move around without hitting other things!

It also occurs to me that modern machines suspension systems seem to allow the drums to move from side to side quite abit more than machines from the 80s or earlier. My old machines barely move off centre when spinning yet our washer-dryer from the early 2000s and the 2007 Zanussi Essential we have both allow the drums to jump around quite considerably.

Liam.

 

[aeg03]

FL1012,

Yeah my AEG is still going strong and has been for 8 and half years. The electronics seem to have sorted themselves out now. It may occasionally freeze for 1 minute or so a couple of times. This only really happens every few months.

My AEG was purchased in 2002 swo it is from around the same time as your Zanussi. The suspension appears to be pretty poor inside this machine, it is suspended by two springs and at the bottom it has 2 'legs' that just seem to help contain a little movement The legs are made of plastic and alumminium. The two parts just slide together. These suspension legs appear to be universal. See video ive included. At 7.56 you will see the type of suspension leg I am talking about.

It is true what you are saying about movment. My old Servis from the 80s had a tub that system that was bolted to the base and the top part was 'suspended' by fabric straps at the top. When the machine spun, the drum didn't really move but instead, the whole machine used to shake and literally jump from side to side on start up of an unbalanced spin. This was the Servis Slimline Electronic 1000, which had the 'Spincare drum' this drum has no perforations, just tiny slits on the front and back part of the drum and a tiny contour in the middle. Clothes still stuck to the edges after spin This machine sounded just like the old Hotpoints and used to scare me as a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/user/eSparesVideo#p/u/31/XaFF2-Rl8Nc