Need help choosing a washer dryer

[oliveoiltinfoil]

If you want, I will make a video of a mixed load. It is actually quite interesting, as like when my auntie came round I was just putting a load on and she actually commented on it. The water come running down the inside of the door and the drums turn slowly as the water is coming in, rather than every other machine I have seen where the water fill the drum and then it turns.

 

[BoschExxcel]

Ahh yes please. My Whirlpool senses the load like an LG before filing so it's rather interesting to watch. My dads Classixx sometimes fills without tumbling and sometimes it moves, depending on programme.

 

[oliveoiltinfoil]

Yepp, my Bosch does that. The drum twitches as soon as you start the program as it senses how much water and energy to use. Really actually very interesting.

 

[henene4]

The Bosch is still different to the Whirlpool approach to all that.
As long as Bosch hasn't changed a lot about that range (though I never saw a Bosch like this before), the wiggle at the start is the internal motor test. Load sensing is still done by absorbancy (Is that how you spell it? I don't know...) messurement. It adds water until the load is saturated and determines how much there is to wash by the amount of water needed and adapts how long it has to wash. Thats the one of 2 major load sensing techniques. Electrolux still uses it along with BSH and Miele as well as Hotpoint&#92Indesit, Acrelik (Beko, Blomberg, a lot of Servis laundry today) and most cheaper brands.
LG, Samsung and Panasonic use a pure weight determent by drummovement. There are various sensing protocols (a single spin, 3 consecutive spins or just several verry short turns for example), but all monitor motor data like rpm, voltage and amperage to determine the weight of the load which consecutivley determines the wash time. Water usage is no longer actually measured; they just fill until the level stays within the desired limits.
Whirlpool as well as verry few of the others use a hybrid of both: they initially sense the weight which adapt the time and programm majorly, and then the absorbancy-measurement adjust minor programm parameters like rinse levels, interim spins and may cut off&#92 add a minute for heating here and there.

 

[oliveoiltinfoil]

Well, however it works, it works very well. My clothes are actually brighter than they have been in a long time, and it applies the fabric softener better than the hotpoint. With my hotpoint, it wouldn't really make a difference if you used softener or not, it was pretty useless, but on the bosch, they feel softer and you can smell the softener, the clothes themselves are softer!

One of my aunties has a 12 year old Bosch machine and it doesn't look a million miles apart from this. Major difference is my display panel and the silver shiny knob. One thing I wish Bosch and many other manufactures wold do is to tilt forward the control panel like EBAC have done. Makes selecting the program much easier, no need to bend down.

The engineer says this model is made in Germany, which is nice, although whoever fitted the detergent draw was having an off day as it isn't completely lined up, but that is serious nit picking. Both the door and the draw close with a click and clunk.