Mega Miele?

[gr-wash]

bajaespuma -

You can get exactly what you want. Just have to buy one of the higher-end commerical laundry machines from Miele, Speed Queen and others. With those machines you should be able to design cycles to do whatever you want, but at a price. They are also 220V (typically 3 phase).

I'd also like to see a high quality consumer large capacity machine in single phase 220V, but I now believe it is a desire that will likely never happen. If Miele didn't do it, who would? Other than making profile washes very very long, the cycle times on the W4840 seem very reasonable.

 

[launderess]

Actually from what one has read here in the group and other places, a three phase motor is much better than single phase. This is especially true for front loading washing machines, and even more so once they start going into the 12lbs and above capacity. Mostly all laundromat front loaders from the smallest to large run on 220v/three phase power. Probably are units that run on 120v and or 220v single phase, but am willing to bet they are sold for "quasi" commercial use such as in beauty salons and such.

Remember that of the large commercial front loaders, IIRC only the European models such as those by Miele have internal heaters. American washers normally are sold with the ability to be connected to a steam boiler for heating water. Again I've seen Wascomat, Speed Queen and other laundromat front loaders with spec plates giving what steam boiler pressure settings to use if one was hooking them up to heat water.

Sadly not that Miele has pretty much given up the ghost, doubt if we will see much more than "small" capacity Euro units like those offered by Miele or Bosch that will run on 220v and "boil" laundry. Miele tried to fight the good fight, but it seems Americans simply were not interested in numbers enough to justify production in a washing machine that runs on 220v power, no matter how large the capacity.

L.

 

[tomturbomatic]

It would be so easy for any of the machines to offer dual power operation. All of the components except the heating elements can run on 120 volts. If the machine were installed on 120, the heating element would be the nominal 1100 to 1300 watts. If you wished to operate the washer on 220, one of the heater leads could be moved to bring a second & possibly larger heater into operation. My 220 volt Creda does the heating when it is not tumbling. During the heating phases of the cycle, the heating is interrupted only for some very slow drum rotation to mix the heated water through the load. If the 120 volt machines did something smart like that, they could use larger heating elements because they would not have to power the heater and the motor at the same time.

 

[peterh770]

The uber Miele set is in the store window here in ATL at the corner of Piedmont and Cheshire Bridge...

 

[tomturbomatic]

The pair is in front of the counter, in line with the door, so that they are the focus of attention as you enter the Brother's Sew & Vac store in Bethesda.

 

[nmaineman36]

I saw the brochure and they said that the gas dryer will be available in April 2007. The place I went to see them in Salem MA had them plugged in and the dryer to me isnt that bad. I think that most Americans are used to a dryer that is quiet and the washer a bit loader. Remember that people used to buy GE FF washers and the one that i had sounded like a freight train when it washed...and that was new.
The electric dryer has a 4 prong plug and I was concerned since the outlet I have in Maine is a 3 prong. but not to worry they have an adapter thats available for that kinda outlet. I think that Miele musta realized that people would balk at the fact that they would have to have an electrician change out the outlet.
Bad enough when you have a gas dryer put in here in Massachusetts that you cant do it yourself...you have to have a plumber come in to do it. And the last time it cost us $115 just for something I could have done myself. And that was cheap. A friend of ours was going to replace a 30 year old Maytag gas dryer with a Whirlpool one and when they found out how much it would cost just to have a plumber come in they gasped...$250 just to have the guy come out and connect it. A task that takes a whole 10 mins at that. They backed out and opted to have the Maytag fixed. And the dryer is a Maytag DG710 and they needed a new motor and drum bearings and rollers. The dryer vent wasnt cleaned in years and they had the plastic hose that was split. All replaced and now it purrs like a kitten.

 

[laundromat]

I went to Agressive Appliance and they have the gas model available already.