Talk about water levels...

[foraloysius]

This is from the German washer site. Huwa is another brand from Switzerland. This video is of an older Huwa frontloader which is owned by one of the members of the German site. One of the special features of this machine is an overflow rinse, a thing I had never seen before on a frontloader. The water level is extremely high, far over the axis of the drum. This is by far the highest water level I have ever seen in a frontloader.

Do I hear Jetcone say he wants one too?

 

[gyrafoam]

Well, since the whole process of rinsing is about "dilution" this F/L certainly takes care of it!

The pump is pretty fast too.

 

[jetcone]

HuuuuuWaaahhh!

Wow that uses alot of water but the pump must be as big as the drum?? It sucked the tub dry in no time flat!

Sounds like someone is taking a shower in the room with it!!

 

[eddy1210]

I want one!

Love that overflow rinse. Yes, Louis I have never seen such a high water level ever. Why does it even bother turning the water off at all during the rinse on this machine LOL. And it does 6 rinses too. Amazing

 

[panthera]

built for multi-residential

These machines are built for continuous use in "mehrfamilien..." housing. So apartment buildings, dorms, etc.
It is funny, growing up in the Rocky Mountain West where water really is precious and scarce, most folks don't give a damn.
Here in Germany (and Switzerland where these beauties are built), where water is anything but scarce...everybody acts like we are down to our last drop and we had better be careful with it.
Still and all, I am convinced that good rinsing and spining is just as important to cleaning as the wash cycle.
Bummer the new machines keep trying to do more with less...I can think of lots of folks here whose allergies make them run their new machines through two extra sets of rinses...after the first set.
And just how does that save water or energy?
Only in a politicians head...
Love that spin. Bet you don't put your silk shirts into that more than once...
Here's a look at the the current production, that machine is ancient (but will still be running in 2020).

http://www.huwa.ch/huwa_produkte/produkte_text_alles.htm

 

[user 12105]

Really,..somebody please show actual facts that the world is drying up of fresh water. What a laugh. Just another vain attempt by man to actually think he can control something beyond his reason as if we were left to figure it all out.

Anyway, it should be considered a blessing that we in the parts of the world who love water hogging TL machines should not feel guilt in the least. I know in the part of the US i come from, nature is VERY green without the need for human intervention.

Yes, i do agree if you can wash clothes with less water but much longer cycle times..go for it. Water is always a renewable resource...just a matter of where it all falls.

 

[lederstiefel1]

water level

I remember quite well that level of water in front-loaders!
My granny had an old Conctructa from end 50s/early 60s which had the same rinse-level, too! All older machines - especially those bigger ones made for hotels and places like that or which were installed in laundretts at that time - had even that level with the wash-cycle!
As to me rinsing with sufficient water is essential and the rinsing with ages of tumbling over and over to minimize the water usage is rubbish! Rinsing is a thinning-process and you can't thin down detergent in rinse-water by tumbling it longer and longer! It's a fact of concentration of chemicals in water, namely the thinning of it; the more often it is diluted in several waters and/or bigger quantities of water, the higher is the thinning and the better the rinsing!
Quite clear - isn't it?
So, what are those bloody mechanics/constructors and politics are trying to tell us?

Ralf

 

[jetcone]

Hail water

Hail deep water rinsing.

DEEP DEEP DEEP

 

[gansky1]

I read somewhere a while ago that the modern, low-water front loaders are rinsing at "industry standard dillution levels" after the first rinse.

I like water too!