A really neat thing about this machine is that it heats water. Behind the front access panel, you will see a square box on the lower part of the tank. This is where the immersion heater goes into the sump. CU bitched about the amount of electricity used, but never equated the water heating with the excellent wash performance of this machine. There is a lot of steel to heat up and since each fill only used enough water to saturate the load plus 3 gallons, a hot fill would never really heat up the machine and stay hot unless it was the second load, started right after the combo had finished drying the previous one and was all hot inside. In fact if you need to save electricity, wash a load of whites needing really hot water after a load of colors that you let dry. When set for a HOT wash, the timer holds while the water is heated to 140F. When set for MED, the washer fills with warm water and heats it to around 120F. So whoever gets this should not think that the timer is bad if it does not immediately advance in the wash cycle. It is just doing a powersoak while heating the water. It does not take long since the heater operates at 230 volts.
