superelectronic
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If programme 11 for wool is anything like on the Bosch WFB I had, it's a short cycle with short agitation/long pause wash action (not slow tumbles though), at high water level achieved by timed fill, then two rinses and a final pulsed spin at maximum speed - perhaps 3 or 4 short pulses.
The programming strikes me in retrospect as being characteristic of European machines with induction motors, even though they were - as far as I know - fitted with brush motors.
Just for the sake of clarity, I believe these machines were all made by Balay themselves, but BSH bought in some of them to sell under their Bosch and Siemens brands as low-cost models - they did state they were made in Spain, after all. This may well have been before the brands were effectively part of one another: Bosch certainly seems to have had a fairly long tradition of taking machines from other manufacturers and applying their own badge. I've seen an older catalogue where they rebadged a Philco machine, for example.
I've seen similar Balay machines rebadged under the Constructa brand on YouTube too...
The programming strikes me in retrospect as being characteristic of European machines with induction motors, even though they were - as far as I know - fitted with brush motors.
Just for the sake of clarity, I believe these machines were all made by Balay themselves, but BSH bought in some of them to sell under their Bosch and Siemens brands as low-cost models - they did state they were made in Spain, after all. This may well have been before the brands were effectively part of one another: Bosch certainly seems to have had a fairly long tradition of taking machines from other manufacturers and applying their own badge. I've seen an older catalogue where they rebadged a Philco machine, for example.
I've seen similar Balay machines rebadged under the Constructa brand on YouTube too...
