overfilling a Calypso(for those who have played with Calypso's)

[supremewhirlpol]

For those of you who have a Whirlpool/Kenmore Calypso machine that has only the nutate pressure switch and not the flood switch: Suppose someone decided to fill the machine with water to a level that would be comparable to a traditional topload machine. How do you think the Calypso machine would behave? Have any of you tried this? What are your thoughts?

 

[yogitunes]

BE CAREFUL...

If you are not aware of this design, there is an over flo tube about at the 2/3 mark of the outter tub....

I have added water during a wash, but never above the top of the agitator, but now that you mentioned it, I'm gonna have to go and fill this machine up as far as I can and see what happens....I'll get back to you

 

[gyrafoam]

Too funny. I'll wait and hear what you guys have to say before I try it with mine!

 

[andrewinorlando]

It will splash water over the top of the wash basket and out into the lower part of the cabinet.

 

[supremewhirlpol]

Really? I thought the purpose of the shield on the lid opening and seal on the lid was to prevent that. I also thought on the newer Calypso's the flood switch was taken off. Did Whirlpool put some extra programming into the computer to check for the flood condition?

 

[yogitunes]

Who would have tought......but

I was using washers in a series as in one washer would drain into the other to re-use the wash water, there were 4 altogether, the last being the Calypso, odd thing was this machine recognized water in the tub, and no matter what you selected on the control panel it would automatically DRAIN before performing the cycle selected, so I had to make this the first machine...

 

[peterh770]

Seems to me Gansky tried it and after a few extra gallons were entered the machine blew and error message. Too many sensors in there.

 

[aldspinboy]

Martin & guy's same hear with my calypso they won't let you fill the tub PERIOD.

Darren k.

 

[yogitunes]

well the KQO stopped and began to drain after I added 2 five gallon buckets of water, not sure if that was because of the flood switch or the motor overload protection, these DC motors work on a basis of required horsepower, kinda adjust to the weight of the load....

I'm gonna try again by pinching off the flood switch after the fill cycle is complete and see what happens....otherwise I will have to use my other one, the KQ2, and see what that does, this one doesn't have the flood switch, and it's under warranty if I screw it up...lol

 

[gansky1]

Peter is correct, the machine I had was adamantly against the addition of any more water. You could do it to a very low level in the tub, just below the "Dome of Scrubbing" any more and it would sense the trick and drain out the excess water. I don't think I tried it with the second Whirlpool branded Collapso I had but I think they had removed the flood-switch by that time so I don't know how it would behave.

 

[bpetersxx]

calypso videos

I am going to post vids of filling the calypso with a hose later after I edit them

 

[cleanteamofny]

You are getting sleepy!

That photo is hypnotic!

 

[Unimatic1140]

John Lefever and I tried it years ago, we disconnected the part that senses the overflow from the pressure switch. We were able to fill the tub more than 1/2 way up and it was a nice, splashy action, but I do remember a burning smelling coming out of the control panel as a lot of amperage was being channeled through the computer board.

 

[supremewhirlpol]

I told the story of how I got a Whirlpool Calypso a few months back, well, one of the machines had the flood switch and the other had a loop-back connector in place of where the connector for the flood switch went. At that time it was the first time that I had access to one of these machines. So instead of connecting the hoses, I just filled the machine with an external water hose, because at the time I thought that the calypso filled up with water like a normal TL machine. Well... I found out that that is not the case at all. All it did was nutate for a few seconds and then go into spin. I later discovered that the pump was clogged and the pump motor was shorted. After fixing the pump in the machine with no flood switch, I never tried to fill the machine above the nutate plate again. I haven't used it in 2 1/2 years, I will post my results after I dig it out of the shed over the weekend.

 

[bpetersxx]

calypso video

I make a flood video but it did not turn out the way it was supposed to be

I`ll get it on youtube

 

[supremewhirlpol]

Getting the Calypso out of the shed over the weekend did not work very well. It rained Friday pretty much all day, It rained Saturday pretty much all day. Sunday was bad because the area where the shed is was just a muddy mess. Hopefully it won't be raining that much this weekend. It was raining so much that I had to move my fan containers to the porch so that Soberleaf could pick through the fans. I did take the Speen Queen (down the stairs)into the basement so that I could test it, to insure that it was in working condition for Soberleaf. It was just a bad weekend to play with machines outside.