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Mike the wider of a fan spray pointed directly at the clothes the more effective it is. When I check the "Extra Softening Rinse" box on the computer interface for the Super-Unimatic, instead of a 2 minute overflow rinse the computer gives a 2 minute spray rinse and no overflow, this allows the fabric softener not to be diluted by the overflow rinse. When the spray rinse first starts you can really see the sudsy/cloudy water coming out of the clothes, but by the end of the two minutes the water that is hitting the glass on the side of the cabinet is usually nearly clear. Two minutes is more than enough or about five gallons.
 
Hi Robert ... very ingenious! Also, very much like a wringer wash but with a lot drier load and a lot less "sloshing" on the floor!! :-)

The trick with wringer washing is to use the 2nd rinse water as the first every other load with the final rinse always being clean water. I guess that's why those machines were on casters; you could move them from tub to tub (if your tubs were stationary).

That sounds like a machine that makes sense for today's world; if people would only take the time and not be "put-off" by reusing wash water. With a little care, wash water can be reused.

I don't hesitate to drain my wash water, however, when I feel that it has served its purpose.
 
Hi geoff hi robert

when you posted those amazing colored computer programs last summer for all the cycles you've set up for the Super Uni, I thought I studied them carefully. I ate them up. That's the stuff i love, so how did I miss or mis-read? Oh well, getting old. I thought you first deep rinsed without an overflow, THEN sprayed in the softener. If you've successfully spin-rinsed in 2 minutes, then the debate is over. The Unimatic can complete a load in 15 gallons. Maybe you could link that thead for the newbees or to re-treat the oldies, if you've a mind to it.
 
when you posted those amazing colored computer programs last summer for all the cycles you've set up for the Super Uni, I thought I studied them carefully. I ate them up. That's the stuff i love, so how did I miss or mis-read?
Hey Mike, you didn't miss read, just things have changed quite a bit since then. I'm forever updating the cycles/ software. Its works even better than six months ago.

If you've successfully spin-rinsed in 2 minutes, then the debate is over. The Unimatic can complete a load in 15 gallons.
That's the spray rinse, I still think it needs a 9.5 gallon rinse as well for total and completely rinsed clothes. I'm absolutely insist on thoroughly rinsed clothes.

So I'm not sure if this is going to work, but I took the code for the Super Unimatic and stripped out the DLL coding to send a receive messages to the washer so it should work on any Windows based PCs without a Unimatic Washer connected. Sorry Mac people, I don't know how to code for the Mac (at least not yet). So try this out and see if you can run the SuperUnimatic on your computer. Click the link below and select Run...

Guys/Gals let me know if this works...
Super Unimatic Demo Program (click here and select Run)

If you get the program running, click on the cycles and you can see the steps, be sure to click some of the wash and rinse options checkboxes to see the cycle steps change. If you click start and actually start the washer running, when the timer dial bar gets to a function that begins with Est Time (that means Estimated Time) the computer waits to hear a signal from the washer before it moves the timer bar along. So just double click on the next step to continue on with the cycle. Make sense?
 
Bummer, I have a Mac,

but i can check the archives for the summer time thread; it was huge, wonderful, and oh so satisfying.

Can I make my Mac do Windows?
 
Wow, very interesting! Question -- there appears to be a third box on the main screen that is not displaying on my system -- does anyone else see it?

I wish some company made their machines hackable so we can play with the various functions. iRobot does this, encouraging customers to modify the command set, they even make an adapter available to program the vacs from your computer.
 
Matt I realized that the reason you cannot see the whole screen is because the program is written for a certain screen resolution.

If you change your montior settings to 1280x1024 you should be able to see the whole screen. (Under Settings/Control Panal/Display, you select the Setting Tab and select 1280x1024.

If I get some time later I will try and see about adding scroll bars to that screen so lower screen resolutions can see the whole thing by scrolling down.
 
mickeyd, yes you can make your Mac do Windows

I'm running OS/X Leopard and you can either do one of two things.
1) using BootCamp, boot up in XP (assuming you have a copy to install)
2) use Parallels (it's a virtual engine) and you can run XP in a virtual engine window.

Yes I'm having the same issue, I'm not seeing the whole screen, however what I see...I think it's AWESOME!!!!
 
Thanks, Davy

I'll just run out to the Apple store. You make a half hour appointment, and those guys can do anything and they are so amazing and good natured, you almost think they had to pass a "Wonderful Personality" test to get the job.

Later, Dude ;'D
 

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