OK, so, this is gonna be a long one.
The VZug 6000 series washer, model 11025, is (IMO) the state of the art washer in Europe.
Biggest feature setting it apart is its heat pump.
The machine has 2 1400W heating elements. You can run it with both hooked up at 16A/230V or 10A/400V 2 phase or 10A/230V with just one.
Those allow for heat boosting really quickly.
But that's nothing special for swiss made washers.
What is its stand alone feature is its 400W compressor system.
That pulls heat from a small water tank and deposits it into the wash water by the means of a recirculation pump circuit and the integrated heat exchanger.
The machine setup allows for 500W of compressor power, but on average it pulls about 400W and deposits about 1kW of heating power.
That means you can get up to 3.8kW of heating power total.
The machine allows you to select 3 efficiency level.
The lowest rating is about heating as fast as possible. It first runs the heat pump for a few minutes before running all systems at once.
The medium level still heats to the selected temp. However it stages the heating one after the other heating as much as possible with just the heat pump. That means you can take advantage of that 2.5 factor between used power and effective heat output. Depending on temperature that saves up to 50% of energy - but since it's only 1kW heating power it takes a long time. And it only works up to about 50C.
The highest efficiency setting adds a reduced target temp to save that little bit extra by extending the wash time.
Effectively, since wash cycles on these are very fast anyway, you can wash at target temp with no trickery and still save a ton of energy with no extended wash times.
It also has an active load balancing system.
Hollow pockets in the drum lifters are filled with water to balance loads very finely without redistributing.
The amazing thing is the simplicity of the system.
There are no seals or so - the water is basically just aimed as a focussed stream onto a collection rim that then guides the water into the respective pocket. So no moving parts per se.
The most "complex" part is the drum position sensor - which is a very simple sensor aswell.
It's not as much about speed.
It is really mostly about allowing quiet operation and reducing wear on the dampers while not having to set to cracy out of balance limits.
It's also has a true turbidity sensor. That allows for efficient rinsing with perfect results.
The dryer appears very simple.
It has an inverter compressor and motor.
Very efficient, pretty fast and pretty quiet.
It doesn't have a seperate blower motor for efficiency reasons.
As a trade of though it has something that no other dryer has as far as I am aware.
It uses a (bought in) fan with a specifically optimised air flow baffle.
That allows quieter, more efficient air flow even in reverse direction.
And since last weekend, I have a set in my bathroom!
The VZug 6000 series washer, model 11025, is (IMO) the state of the art washer in Europe.
Biggest feature setting it apart is its heat pump.
The machine has 2 1400W heating elements. You can run it with both hooked up at 16A/230V or 10A/400V 2 phase or 10A/230V with just one.
Those allow for heat boosting really quickly.
But that's nothing special for swiss made washers.
What is its stand alone feature is its 400W compressor system.
That pulls heat from a small water tank and deposits it into the wash water by the means of a recirculation pump circuit and the integrated heat exchanger.
The machine setup allows for 500W of compressor power, but on average it pulls about 400W and deposits about 1kW of heating power.
That means you can get up to 3.8kW of heating power total.
The machine allows you to select 3 efficiency level.
The lowest rating is about heating as fast as possible. It first runs the heat pump for a few minutes before running all systems at once.
The medium level still heats to the selected temp. However it stages the heating one after the other heating as much as possible with just the heat pump. That means you can take advantage of that 2.5 factor between used power and effective heat output. Depending on temperature that saves up to 50% of energy - but since it's only 1kW heating power it takes a long time. And it only works up to about 50C.
The highest efficiency setting adds a reduced target temp to save that little bit extra by extending the wash time.
Effectively, since wash cycles on these are very fast anyway, you can wash at target temp with no trickery and still save a ton of energy with no extended wash times.
It also has an active load balancing system.
Hollow pockets in the drum lifters are filled with water to balance loads very finely without redistributing.
The amazing thing is the simplicity of the system.
There are no seals or so - the water is basically just aimed as a focussed stream onto a collection rim that then guides the water into the respective pocket. So no moving parts per se.
The most "complex" part is the drum position sensor - which is a very simple sensor aswell.
It's not as much about speed.
It is really mostly about allowing quiet operation and reducing wear on the dampers while not having to set to cracy out of balance limits.
It's also has a true turbidity sensor. That allows for efficient rinsing with perfect results.
The dryer appears very simple.
It has an inverter compressor and motor.
Very efficient, pretty fast and pretty quiet.
It doesn't have a seperate blower motor for efficiency reasons.
As a trade of though it has something that no other dryer has as far as I am aware.
It uses a (bought in) fan with a specifically optimised air flow baffle.
That allows quieter, more efficient air flow even in reverse direction.
And since last weekend, I have a set in my bathroom!
