I did it, I finally brought home an LG washer!

[revvinkevin]

Did you manually add water to the machine also?

On two of the three loads I've run so far, yes. But that is mostly because I was washing very large, bulky items (the quilted furniture packing blankets I mentioned and I washed one of my car covers this morning.)

An additional quart of water was not enough for what I was doing and using a 1/2 gallon pitcher wasn't cutting it either. So I unhooked the hoses from the adjacent 806 (since it's being moved anyway) and used them to fill it more. This worked very nicely!

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Come on guys, LET'S GET HIM!!!

(Quaking in boots...) I'm sorry, Kevin... I am now so frightened, I may avoid bringing the G.E.'s and Frigidaire's over there out of self preservation... LOL!

I'm wondering if there isn't a mini manual in the console or on the kick panel that would give a cycle time breakdown to help explain that rinse. Interesting...

RCD

 

[favorit]

Latest european LG

Hi guys,
this is the latest european LG. Claimed as a 25 lb machine, actually it has a 78 cu. decimetres drum so it's a 18 lb.
It has 4 rinse modes : normal, rinse+, rinse ++ and allergy mode. Can't understand why they don't do the same on the US models

As for internal heaters, that 6000 W Miele is a 40 y.o. washer. Can't be used to compare current US vs EU machines. These LG and most of current european washers have a 2000 W heater, that's not much more powerful than your 1200W. Latest mieles can be switched from 2400 to 2100 W TOTAL power (heater + motor).

IMHO the mother-issue of many US FL is cycle time. They try to be as fast as US toploaders, missing the key point : FL and TL work differently and perform differently in different situations. A Ferrari and a Hummer are both cars but they perform their best in very different situations. So a heated FL is better to wash very dirty kitchen towels and table linens while a TL is better to wash fastly huge loads of casual clothes

Imbalance issue in US FL. IMHO they take centuries to balance beause these machines are too ligh-build, so very sensitive OOB controls should let the FL last longer. A heavy washer can deal with some imbalance. They can't be as heavy as commercial grade 18 lb machines, cause the latter cost about 6000 $ while household FL have to compete with TL prices.

http://www.lge.com/uk/home-appliances/washing-machines/LG-white-washing-machine-F1443KD.jsp

 

[spiralator60]

LG overflow rinse?

Kevin,

The picture in post #391472 looks very familiar to me, as when using the Normal and Cotton/Towels settings. The water level on the window looks to be about the same at that point in the cycle, and the suds appear to be knocked down fairly quickly.

The thing that I am a little puzzled about is what you said about the machine draining shortly after the fill stops. I know that you, Ken, and I have different models, and this could be a design/operation matter, but on my LG the rinse agitation period is a little longer by at least a couple of minutes before draining. Are the items getting rinsed properly without adding more water?

Also, how much water is your machine using per load apart from you adding more water?

 

[bajaespuma]

Kevin,

Are you saying that the bleach dispenser on your model does, in fact, dispense during the rinse cycle??? That doesn't look right to me.

My bleach dispenser is flushed at the last five minutes of the wash cycle. The solenoid does flush the cup until it overflows but adds no significant amount of water to the tub.

The softener dispenser fills about 6 times at the beginning of the final rinse cycle during the fill, by comparison.

 

[revvinkevin]

Darryl, yes that's what it does. When it starts filling for the rinse, water flows through the "main wash" trough to fill the machine. Once the "normal" water level is reached, the water flow changes to the bleach reservoir, the machine tumbles as it normally does and the water keeps flowing. It's not as if it just sits there idle as the water level increases, it does not.

Ken
"Are you saying that the bleach dispenser dispense during the rinse cycle???"
Yes that is correct. And my understanding this is pretty much "normal" on most FL washers. In fact, my 12 year old Frigidaire Gallery FL washer does exactly that, dispenses the bleach during the first rinse.

 

[revvinkevin]

I may avoid bringing the G.E.'s and Frigidaire's ove

Hey Drew... Oh, that's OK... I may just find another home for the turquoise Maytag set... or if I get really tired of them I may just call the scrap man to haul them away.

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Aaaarrrggghhh!

He has a hostage... No fair! LOL!

RCD

 

[revvinkevin]

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