wft2800
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Is the 5500 one of the Neptune washer models that has an internal heater or not? I'm looking at buying one local to me but I have no hot water supply for it, it would have to heat cold water.
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State-side, the 5500 does not have a heater, but the 6500/7500 does.
Ben
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wft2800
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Right... I don't know if the UK models differed?
passatdoc
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As far as I know, US-specification washers run on 110V and use cold and hot water fill. The heater is designed to boost ambient hot water line temp up to a higher temp---it isn't designed to heat cold line water to say 60 C---and if it could perform this feat, it would take forever. On my modern Electrolux (2014), the heat engages if a sanitary cycle is chosen, or if there is inadequate 140 F hot water fill (say, two teenagers are in the shower and you need to run a load). In the latter case, it's still only heating from tepid or lukewarm---not from cold water line cold.
heater or not.....a Neptune will not operate with only cold water hook-up!...
I have no recollection of the 5500 being sold in Europe. Is it perhaps an Australian Neptune? The only Neptune that was sold AFAIK was the 7500. I think I remember it had a bigger heating element than the American version, but I'm not really sure.
wft2800
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I'd need to see the machine (or at least a photo thereof) to check. The owner is American but it's a UK-wired 240v 50Hz machine, so I am told.
When I had a 7500 the heater was 1100 Watts. It had a transformer in the base to convert the 240v to 110v. It still had to hit and cold fill. Even with a 2 hour cycle it struggled to raise the water temperature.
