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So, ahm, I kind of spend way to much money on a new washer for my self, but I kept walking past it every day I work, and it was really cheap for what it is...
It'll take the Gorenjes place which will be stored away until I move out.

I finally joined the Miele club!
Gotta great deal on an old stock Speedcare 1600 model (WCH 370 IIRC).

Gonna be delivered friday, hopefully I'll be abled to calibrate it before heading off for the weekend.

On that note: I'm pretty certain I posted a link to a W1 service manual at some point.
Does anybody remember when where I did that?
 
oh, I am still

wanting a C-3 Brilliant, but a new central built in system here still costs a lot less than $1,500 US for the power unit, hose, attatchments, and power nozzle.
 
Was somewhat worried as I probably won't be around when it will be delivered and I know our delivery drivers (bought it at the place I work at) as I booked delivery with setup (didn't fancy moving 100kg around the house and leveling it).

Pretty sure they'll want to test the connections and show my flatmates how to use it and will skip the calibration cycle.
That cycle is VITAL for the PowerWash 2.0 to work as intended.

Now I am 90% certain I know how to recalibrate the machine if need be as I found the service manual for a washer dryer version of a simmilar machine.

Will try to make it in time anyway...
 
Henrik—I’ve not heard of a calibration cycle. What parameters get calibrated?

Do other brands in Europe have similar cycles or this is exclusive to Miele?

 

Hope you can work out a way to be present for installation.

 
 
Congratulations on your Miele acquisition - it will not let you down and you will be impressed by it's quality, and the thoroughness in taking care of your laundry. I must say our Miele is doing some heavy lifting every day of its life as and not one hickup has ever occurred.

I remember when ours was delivered, it had the first wash in which some impurities will be removed - I think it will wash at a rather high temperature to rid it of all oils that may have accumulated during the manufacturing process.

From there on no laundry will stand in its way.

So enjoy.

Regards
 
Frigilux

The PowerWash 2.0 relies a lot on algorhythmic calculations for heating times and load sensing.

At the verry begining during the first Spin&Spray cycle the recirc shuts of for a moment while the tub pulls up to a higher spin speed.
This pull up is used to gather motor data (nor unlike the Cabrios sensing or LGs sensing method). That is calibrated.
Further the washer gathers a lot of data on heating patterns specific to tub and heater installed.

As far as I read the manual the service technician has to run this first wash again if certain parts were replaced.

Samsungs has a user accesible calibration mode but that runs dry and for like 6min of tub turning only.

Haven't heared of any other machine needing such lenghty calibration.
 
So

They carried the old one up to the attick for a tenner which is nice.

Machine is standing nice and level enough.

Calibration cycle:

Machine filled with 4l of water first which was about enough to have about 1cm in the drum and heated some (enough to feel quite a lot of heat at the second window) while tumbling in something like the anti crease rhythm.

Then after almost exactly 25min it filled higher (11l now, about enough for the water level to be about 1cm or so above the paddles) and started tumbling with the intensive rhythm but hasn't heated since.

About an hour left on that, no recirculation yet.

I'll leave for the weekend in a couple of hours after I set everything up and started the first load.
 
Henrik:

If you can find it, can you post a link to the service manual for the W1. I think you said it was for the washer/Dryer, but I would like to browse the copy anyway. Thanks.

Frigilux:

My W1(USA) version did the calibration run. It is the first run the machine can make and there must not be any clothes in it. I don't exactly know what it did, but you had to run a Normal cycle at 140F. It ran for close to 2 hours. During that time the glass in the door got very warm- I think warmer than any other time I;ve run a 140F Normal cycle. The machine went through a 140F wash and two rinses and all the spins.

I had read about this run in the manual before my machine was delivered in January of this year and I wanted to wait until the machine warmed up a bit since it was on the truck all day and the temperature never got over 25F. The delivery guys insisted they had to see the machine running before they left so I had to start the calibration run with an ice-cold machine.

After that, I could run any program cycle I wanted to. I am not sure what happened, but I think the manual said it was so the machine could be adjusted to your home environment. I think it might have something to do with setting time estimates for program cycles and perhaps adjusting it to your water pressure. This is probably a good idea since my laundry is in an unheated space in the basement and even in the summer, I can hear the washer heater click on as soon as the wash water enters the tub. It continues to click on and off until about 9 minutes before the end of the wash.

I don't see any setting on the machine that lets me rerun the calibration.
 
Link

Not the source I girst thought off, but here is the copy I downloaded now:

TP-8214 (655) MIELE WASHER-DRYER WTH 120(F) Pages 351-400 - Flip PDF Download | FlipHTML5

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Henrik
I noticed that your machine has a quick Powerwash, but it also has Powerwash as an option. Can you tell me how quick Powerwash differs from the Powerwash as an option, or do I have that understanding wrong?

Your machine's control panel is similar to mine so I guess Miele is sticking with one design language across all of their machines of the same time period.

Be careful with the lid of the fabric softener. I nicked my finger on the underside because it has those two pointed pieces that are used to puncture the cap foil. The nick wasn't bad, but it was enough that I felt it and looked to see where it came from.

Here's my control panel:
Sorry for the smudges but I had been using the machine most of the day so my fingerprints are all over it.

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Currently getting my windshield fixed (stone hit it yesterday on the way home, luckily just a small chip that can be just fixed and is completely covered by insurance) and have to wait for half an hour.

Frigilux:

Thos are the CapDos caps that ship with the machine as promotion basicly.

You place them in the fabric softner compartment where they click into the middle post and as you close the lid you have to apply some force so the small thorns in the 2 middle holes pierce the foil.

On the panel you select the Cap button and then one of 3 cap types that us indicated by a symbol on the caps (detergent, softner or booster) and the machine adds the agent at the apropiate time and optimized to what might be in the load depending on the cycle.

Idea is that you get perfect results even for situations you seldomly encounter without having to have a complete bottle of something laying around.

For example I ordered their CottonRepair caps which reduce pilling as wells as Outdoor detergent and stuff to re-waterproof items.

Caps are I think 7€ for 6 for most stuff or 13 for 3 for the special stuff like the CottonRepair or waterproofing agent.

jerrod6:

The PowerWash icon lights on every programm I've used so far and only indicates the recirculation is used.

The Quick and Eco buttons are more akin to the "Short" option and "Eco" setting on older Programm Manger systems.

The QuickPowerWash cycle is the updated version with either 59min with Quick selected as default or 1:15h with Quick deselected and the more extensive rinsing process.

Have been running several cycles ans will report on them once I'm home as that will be a bit more in detail.
 
Nice washer

I have the same machine but with out the WIFI connection did not see the point as at home when ever I use the machine.
What a lovely wash cycle its quiet efficient and does what you want.
It spins brilliant too it makes my heat pump dryer much faster and the spin although the same as my old Miele seems to be able to remove more water as I notice I hardly have to empty the drawer in the dryer.
Over all I am completely satisfied with the washer and what it cost. And for getting a free 5 year warranty not used the capsules that came with it and highly doubt I will.

Austin
 

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