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Toggleswitch brought us a heaping helping of goodies at the wash-in. In it was a couple of boxes of Fax, which is, I believe, Turkish detergent.

It's lemon-scented.

It's über-low-sudsing.

It cleans fabulously, and leaves laundry fresh.

We love it.

Have we been duped? Did lemon-scented Dash just wander off to parts unknown? Or has Jon started production of JonDash, just waiting for us to notice...

Anyhoo, Togs, please set-up a supply chain and I'll open a Swiss bank account for you. That stuff is incredible!!
 
Toggle treats galore...........Flattery will get you everywh

OMG I need to get out the water bottle and a hose. I know what could use a good cleaning around these parts...

SHHHHHHH! Don't tell my grandparents I bought Turkish detergent. They are rollong over in their graves. Trust me it was quite by accident!

Anyhoo....
You likes da Fax.
Ross likes da Bluette (bluing) and the Lavender Sachet.
and for Roger?

Gotta make like a bakery truck and haul buns and see if the s--t store...er excuse me... the 99 cent store still has some...
 
Toggle treats are always the best!!!! Roger also loved the FAX Steve no more suds lock in the Kenmore YAY !! I am going to start checking the dollar stores closer!!
 
A few more *Fax*

I was given a couple of boxes too! I haven't tried it out yet, but it sounds great!! Alas, no sudslock means no sudscakes. :-(
 
Oh, but!

You'll love the performance, Venus!! And when you take a whiff of the laundry room, you'll be whisked away into a flowering lemon tree.

Be careful, though. They have lots of thorns. And the bees--watch the bees.

Anyhow...

Yes, we love the Toggle treats!!! And we love the Toggle treat that gave us two additional circuits off of one 220 outlet and allowed us to run the Norge and other washers simultaneously with impunity!

(Oh, and Steve--the GFI that didn't "hold" worked fine after it was plugged-in. YAY!! and THANK YOU!!!)

--Nate
 
COOL!

Nate: I had a safety suggestion from Gansky. Stick four caster on the bottom of it to keep it our of water (off the ground) when you are playing with newly acquired washers!

Obviously, keep the screws away from the wires!

I'm gonna make you some plug-in modifications to bring the (safety) fusing down from 30a (provided by the dryer circuit in which the mega power-strip connects) to 15a or 20a. This is even more safety for your washers.

ENJOY the Toggle treats in good health, much safety and tremendous wealth, gentlemen.

(OK I DEFINITELY HEARD IT THIS TIME!)
Who is snickering and muttering "Plug Queen" in the background HUH? HUH? HUH? *LOL*
 
I haven't used the FAX yet, but love the smell from the outside of the box. I'm glad to hear it's low-suds.

That mega power strip that you made is awesome, Togs - I'm already planning one in my head for my garage - it's good to know where to find the 30A cable.
 
Ok since all of you are tooting my horn, Maybe I should do it myself as well (Imagine? If I could I'd never leave home :-) ]

This device is simply and extension cord that plugs into the main home's dryer outlet (220v 30a Awg: 10/3).

It splits the circuit (left to right) into:

110v 20a GFI protected circuits (2 circuits with 4 outlets each.)
220v 50a 4-wire/prong range/stove/cooker outlet
220v 50a 3-wire/prong range
220v 30a 4-wire clothes dryer (with "L" shaped rprong)
220v 30a 3-wire clothes dryer (with "L" shaped prong)
220v 30a air-conditioner outlet
220v 20a air-conditioner outlet

This way Nate can play with anything he happens to acquire. He can test it without modifying the furnished power cord/flex.

The mechanics of it:

Llong 10/3 flexible cable (AWG#10=30a with 3 conductor.)Two hots and a neutral in the main long cable. Grounding/earthing is accomplished via a separate 110v plug that serves only to make contact with the homes grounding system via the third (round) prong.

ENJOY. Try not to black-out the whole neighborhood!

Why are there 3 and 4 prong-wire version of some outlets and plugs? Beofre a certain year (early 90's?) the ground and neutral were allowed to share one conductor in 220v appliances. Not anymore. Canada always, BTW, required them to run separately.

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*chuckle*

Actually the configuration is doubly-protected (with the circuit breaker in the house panel, triply), and is quite safe. It's just the ultimate in versatility, which is, as you know, exactly the sort of thing we'd expect from Toggle :-D

As he said, it's "fused" to 30A right now, which is okay, but washers typically require 15-20A to be safest. So, that's our next project. But by forfeiting the dryer, I acquired two new circuits for washers, and the number of spontaneous "oops, I overtaxed it" circuit-breaker resets for the washer shed went down considerably.

Plus, as Toggle said, it's grounded through the three-prong 110V cord, so long as you have the presence of mind to plug it into a grounded outlet.
 
Have no fear it's safe as-is!

Greg:

As you suggested if I had to do it again (don't worry Nate, we'll modify yours) I would definitley fuse the regular outlets with something smaller than 30a and perhaps have a regular 120v outlet that is NOT GFI protected, to be used as a last resort, since we know that sometimes older machines just love to trip them.

The hardest part of this was wiring the guts with #10 (30a) solid wire. The flexible cable with stranded wire was MUCH easier to work with!

The metal outlet boxes ground the outlets (power-points) automatically and provide durabilty as cpmpared to plastic. ones. A bare copper conductor links box-to-box and the junction/outlet boxes to the ground conductor in the 110v flex connector.
 

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