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FunGuy, the Calypso, Catalyst, and Resource Saver are three different machines. The Resource Saver was introduced in 1996 and ran a standard agitator-action wash, but did a series of spin-spray rinses. Quoted from the service supplement:<blockquote>The Resource Saver Spray Rinse washer is designed to successfully wash clothes with approximately 35% to 47% less water by using a series of "spray rinses" rather than a "deep rinse" with commonly used in other conventional washers.

As water is sprayed on the spinning clothes, they become saturated. The rinse water is then extracted from the spinning clothes and diverted from the basket where it is recirculated and once again, sprayed back on the spinning clothes. Each spray rinse cycle recirculates the rinse water for thirty seconds, after which the detergent laden water is drained from the basket. This occurs six times. Each spray rinse cycle uses approximately one (1) to two (2) gallons of water.

In addition, these models are equipped with an Automatic Temperature Control system to minimize the amount of hot water used throughout the wash and rinse cycles.

The spray rinse cycle is accomplished through the use of a unique recirculating system, dual vacuum break, a diverter valve, a second pressure switch and an extra pressure dome mounted to the inside back panel of the washer.</blockquote>It had three timer cycles -- Normal wash (which includes the spray rinse sequences), a Soak/Pre-wash cycle which ended with a spin but no rinse, and a separate Rinse & Spin cycle that did a traditional deep-fill rinse or could be used for spin-only.
 
Both Harmonies.

They look to be the same machine with different control panels to me. Same capacity. Same max spin speed.

What makes you think they are different?

MRB
 
You know, I think you are right. They might both be Harmonies but with different control panels. Also DADoeS, do you have more info on the Whirlpool Resource Saver washer or know where I can get more?
 
The Harmony has been re-designed. That is the new unit - a little less radical design, similar to the rear control LG.

The Calypso rinses completely differently than the Whirlpool Resource Saver or the GE, and it rinses very well because it combines nutation of the wash plate as part of the rinse. The Resource Saver or the GE can't do that. All they can do is fill with water and agitate, defeating the who water saving feature. The Calypso is a simple fresh water spray while draining followed by two recirc water rinses, so softener users can still do what they always do. Simple test to see how well a washer rinses...dunk a freshly washed towel in water....any soap?
 
Calypsos do several different kinds of rinsing actions, in various combinations or sequences depending on the selected cycle. There may be as many as seven water changes (fills or flushes). Remember the famous Whirlpool Seven Rinses!

There may be a brief drain and a bleach flush refill as a pseudo-rinse to start it off .. depending on the cycle selected. The 2nd rinse fill typically also flushes the bleach dispenser.

Fresh water spray of a couple minutes duration with the pump in drain mode while the basket rotates at 60 RPM.

Fill while the pump recirculates and the basket rotates at 60 RPM ... which segues into nutation.

Fill accompanied by recirculation and nutation. Nutation may continue for a programmed period after fill is complete, or it may be a very brief rinse with the machine going into drain after a few seconds.

The final filled rinse during which the softener dispenser flush occurs has the highest water level of any cycle phase.

The final spin may have a fresh water spray at 400 or 500 RPM.

Lotsa rinsing!
 
That's great detail Glen...I've been ignoring my Calypso for too long now and letting it do its thing all by itself in the laundry room. To get an idea of how well it does rinse, add one tablespoon of fabric softener to a load of towels. At the end of the cycle, you'll find the scent of the softener evenly distributed among all of the towels, top to bottom.
 
GE suspension

Nobody on this site has been able to answer my questions as to why GE washers, when their tubs are shaken from side to side (i do this in the stores) makes awful metallic grinding and sqeaking noises.
That cannot be a good sound, and poor sign of quality.
Do these HydroWave machines (which seem quite expensive) have the same shit suspension?
 
All domestic machines here

Have been top hung for 25 years.

The noises that the suspension makes is different and if you do swing it to hard by hand, you can get a bang when it hits the cabinet.

Normally though, there are some different suspension noises with top hung machines, but nothing I'd call grinding, possibley some squeak type noises.

Are they bad noises, or just different to what you're used to?
 
GE Harmony

I think some of the confusion about the Harmony machine is that we associate the name Harmony to the wash plate 4.0 cu. ft. machine. It was named so because the washer & dryer are connected via a cable to communicate and therefore work in "harmony". So the new machine posted above has the same wash system as the Harmony but is not one.

Ed
 
Are you new here? Welcome to the Discuss-O-Mat. And I've known for this whole thread that the other machine was not the GE Harmony. I think it is a GE-Branded version of the Haier Genesis washer.
 
suspension

I think any noise in any machine that makes metallic squeaking/grinding noises gives off a BAD perception of quality.
 
FunGuy, you always seem to know so much about everything!! Good for you! Here again, though, you're wrong. The Haier Genesis and the GE pictured are not even remotely the same machine, nor is it sourced by Haier for GE. The GE pictured is a re-deisgned Harmony-type machine, without the connector to the dryer (or the Harmony name). It is built by LG, as is the original Harmony. The Harmony-type dryer is being paired with this machine as a set, without the communication cable to the washer (or the Harmony name), so you can set your own cycle. But it is basically the Harmony washer, wash system, matching dryer, with all the features of the Harmony washer (except the two way communications from the washer to the dryer). It is nothing at all like the Haier Genesis washer, which has a max spin speed of 750 and a completely different type of wash system, and only a 3.5 cu ft capacity, not 4.0 like the Harmony.
 
There is a shipping rod that holds the tub still during shipping. Maybe on a display model they haven't removed the rod?? Look at the left or right side of the washer near the floor to see if it is installed. It has a yellow flag attached, reminding you to remove it before operating the washer.
 
Peter, you're correct.

The Hydrowave is belt driven directly from the motor to the agitator shaft. Wash and spin action is controlled by solenoids and wash action occurs via a 360 degree agitator stroke, as opposed to the old style 160 degree fast stroke washers that drove through a transmission.

HydroWash machines are the wash plate, Harmony-style washers.
 
So that machine is the HydroWash. Could you post pictures of the HydroWave so I can see it? The GE Appliances website does not seem to list it yet.
 
GE Hydrowave

This is the Hydrowave washer, not to be confused with the Hydrowash washer, which is the Harmony-style machine pictured above. The Hydrowave has been listed on GE's website for over a year now.

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Oh! That's it! I heard those machines are crap. Loud, shaky spins, transmission and motor problems, the list goes on and on.
 

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