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Serviced from the bottom

I looked at the exploded view on the GE website and also I looked at the cabinet in Lowes, which wraps around and is riveted on the back. These machines are serviced from the bottom. I stuck my camera underneath a washer at Lowes after I tipped it up enough to get a picture underneath, and all the mechanics are serviced from underneath, the cabinet provides no access from the front or back.

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From the looks of the lower agipeller, I wonder if the load will still rollover from outside to middle, rather than reverse-blooming like low-water washers like Whirlpool's or F&P's. The humps on the plate don't seem to have "scoops" like mine does that push towards the center.

I almost wish my Cabrio-Bravos had a detachable upper agitator pole or something like the new agipeller washers, just for those comforter-quilt-blanket loads to make sure they couldn't stretch across the middle and cause it to ball up.
 
Oxi-driven Sanitization: Thanks for the explanation. I'm certainly glad I purchased a washer that uses boosted water temps for Allergen and Sanitize cycles. Wonder if this signals the eventual demise of the internal heater?
 
From the reviewed video, it seems the bottom of the pole-stile model has only 3 small nubs on it, with no scoop design as mentioned. Thus, at least the pole model (gosh, that sounds wrong...) should have standard turn over.

The washplate without pole has only a minor width difference with the center-side of the 4 bars being slimmer then the outside, thus this model should be blooming during low level wash...
 
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The video is posted by someone who joined youtube yesterday.
She doesn't say anything about the machine or why she posted the video,
other than titling it "loud GE washer".
Odd behavior if you ask me.
 
Well in that video I will say that it is louder than the hydrowave. Which is whisper quiet during wash mode. So I must ask, is this some kind of new drive system? If so why GE? The system you had works good in low water?

_Andy
 
Warm Rinse

Is this the only new washer with a Warm Rinse Option? That is one of the reasons that I have not wanted to get a new washer. I probably will keep using the Maytag 2001 Orbital until it completely dies. But the GE looks interesting.

Martin
 
similar to VMW BDs

does look quite similar to whirlpool setup-looks like reversing split capacitor motor ran straight off line power or through dual triacs like a VMW instead of off inverter like a hydrowave.Would be interesting to know what "mode shifter"method is used:if magnetic clutch like hydrowave,or device operated by timer-type motor like a VMW whirly.
 
That breakdown looks IDENTICAL to Whirlpool's VMW, from the gearcase to that vertically mounted drain pump. Seems Whirlpool is definitely the popular girl at school because that particular design is a heavy influence with other companies. I remember even Speed Queen had a few behind the scenes pictures on Facebook and what do you know, my exact model WTW4800 is sitting in what looked like a test room. I do think SQ used it to improve the spray rinses, hence the angled fill flume, something that would help the Whirlpool. But that GE, on the other hand, looks like a flat out copy and paste.
 

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