There have been some posts on here recently that expressed dismay with their appliances of a certain brand.
I'm no brand loyalist, and I don't want to say that people are wrong about their bad experiences.
Yes I have my preferences, but I can put these aside.
What I can't stand - and that comes from both a professional and hobbyist standpoint - is exaggeration of such bad experiences with stuff that is just factually not true.
Not only not true - that basically can't be true just by the way that these things work.
If a person comes to our store with an issue about their appliance I am very happy to help.
If they start saying stuff that can not be true, that is counter productive for both of us. I have to somehow then weigh everything said with that fact in mind which in turn will make it more likely that I will or can't help them.
You know, somebody walking in and saying their phone screen just shattered by itself and demanding a fix under warranty will just not get any second more of my time than somehow necessary.
And as a hint to anybody not having cought on:
I only work at a service desk in a store. I have to know many things somewhat well and I can already filter much of the BS out.
Trying to claim anything not backed up by fact to the service of a manufacturer that has access to the literal specifications of EVERY aspect of that product will yield nothing but them NOT helping you.
One person on here in particular claimed their heat pump dryer from the T1 series shrank their clothing.
That it got very hot.
Which just isn't true - can't be true.
But that person insisted they were right.
But they aren't - and I knew that.
So I ordered a cheap digital thermometer off of Amazon.
You can get a simple one that just measures the temp with a remote probe that is water tight for 5 bucks.
I wanted a min/max function in case I missed the max temp - so I did not have to sit around all the time. That came in at 8 bucks and even included a temp sensor in the display unit.
These things are just glorified inside/outside thermometers you can hang out your window.
Thus they are water tight and read up to 70C usually - which is perfect for DWs, most wash and dry cycles.
This allows me to monitor the max temp of such cycles on all of my appliance.
So I will be placing that sensor in the fluff filter of my dryer on some cycles.
Especially, I'm popping that sensor through the opening for Mieles dryer scent flacons on the left side, closing that slider as far as possible and routing the wire to the right.
While that won't be exactly the temperature in the laundry, most dryers monitor the clothing temp right around there.
So it is close enough for the purpose.
For my first load, I ran my large darks load through the darks cycle on my washer.
The load consists of 2 pairs of jeans, 4 pairs of sweat pants and 3 sweat jackets.
On that cycle, these items get a medium/short 1200rpm spin. Usually I wash them on Cottons, where they would get a longer and faster spin, but I wanted to extend the dry time a little.
I did NOT select the low temp option like I usually would.
And - surprise - the dryer barely reached 60C. Which isn't cold but far from shrinking hot.
The first check in was at about 1:05h in the cycle and the dryer was just short of 50C/120F.
Next check in was in the extended drying stage that happens at the end of the Jeans cycle. It hadn't reached 60C yet.
I missed the actual point the heat pump shut off, but it was only a few min before the I took the final pictures showing the max temp reached - which was 61.8C.
This is the hottest running cycle/load combo I think I ever have in day to day operations and saying the max the load reaches was 65C/150F or less is reasonable.
I'll be running an even larger load next week but from experience that load will run cooler.
If anybody has any suggestions on cycles or loads I should try I'll see what I can do.
But no.
These dryers don't get very hot.
Sure they can shrink items - but these items would have shrunk in any other dryer aswell.
Rant over.
I'm no brand loyalist, and I don't want to say that people are wrong about their bad experiences.
Yes I have my preferences, but I can put these aside.
What I can't stand - and that comes from both a professional and hobbyist standpoint - is exaggeration of such bad experiences with stuff that is just factually not true.
Not only not true - that basically can't be true just by the way that these things work.
If a person comes to our store with an issue about their appliance I am very happy to help.
If they start saying stuff that can not be true, that is counter productive for both of us. I have to somehow then weigh everything said with that fact in mind which in turn will make it more likely that I will or can't help them.
You know, somebody walking in and saying their phone screen just shattered by itself and demanding a fix under warranty will just not get any second more of my time than somehow necessary.
And as a hint to anybody not having cought on:
I only work at a service desk in a store. I have to know many things somewhat well and I can already filter much of the BS out.
Trying to claim anything not backed up by fact to the service of a manufacturer that has access to the literal specifications of EVERY aspect of that product will yield nothing but them NOT helping you.
One person on here in particular claimed their heat pump dryer from the T1 series shrank their clothing.
That it got very hot.
Which just isn't true - can't be true.
But that person insisted they were right.
But they aren't - and I knew that.
So I ordered a cheap digital thermometer off of Amazon.
You can get a simple one that just measures the temp with a remote probe that is water tight for 5 bucks.
I wanted a min/max function in case I missed the max temp - so I did not have to sit around all the time. That came in at 8 bucks and even included a temp sensor in the display unit.
These things are just glorified inside/outside thermometers you can hang out your window.
Thus they are water tight and read up to 70C usually - which is perfect for DWs, most wash and dry cycles.
This allows me to monitor the max temp of such cycles on all of my appliance.
So I will be placing that sensor in the fluff filter of my dryer on some cycles.
Especially, I'm popping that sensor through the opening for Mieles dryer scent flacons on the left side, closing that slider as far as possible and routing the wire to the right.
While that won't be exactly the temperature in the laundry, most dryers monitor the clothing temp right around there.
So it is close enough for the purpose.
For my first load, I ran my large darks load through the darks cycle on my washer.
The load consists of 2 pairs of jeans, 4 pairs of sweat pants and 3 sweat jackets.
On that cycle, these items get a medium/short 1200rpm spin. Usually I wash them on Cottons, where they would get a longer and faster spin, but I wanted to extend the dry time a little.
I did NOT select the low temp option like I usually would.
And - surprise - the dryer barely reached 60C. Which isn't cold but far from shrinking hot.
The first check in was at about 1:05h in the cycle and the dryer was just short of 50C/120F.
Next check in was in the extended drying stage that happens at the end of the Jeans cycle. It hadn't reached 60C yet.
I missed the actual point the heat pump shut off, but it was only a few min before the I took the final pictures showing the max temp reached - which was 61.8C.
This is the hottest running cycle/load combo I think I ever have in day to day operations and saying the max the load reaches was 65C/150F or less is reasonable.
I'll be running an even larger load next week but from experience that load will run cooler.
If anybody has any suggestions on cycles or loads I should try I'll see what I can do.
But no.
These dryers don't get very hot.
Sure they can shrink items - but these items would have shrunk in any other dryer aswell.
Rant over.
