rolls_rapide
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This for Darren's benefit.
This arrived in 1993, and passed onto a friend in 2000.
The machine arrived on my birthday in 1993, and from day one had niggly problems (the door wouldn't release properly).
The machine was supposed to ramp into a "spin-burst" during washing (every 6th cycle of clockwise motion, according to the Service Data Book: sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. I noticed that if the machine took in stone-cold water only, it would do the spin-bursts. If the water was anywhere near lukewarm, it omitted them.
The Hoover engineer was summoned to fix the door release (belt-pecker needed adjusting) and I mentioned about the erratic spin-bursts. He thought that the motor control was a little rough, so he ordered a new pcb.
Anyway, a week later he came back to fit it, and in the process scratched the front panel! So he had to come back again. Needless to say, the spin-bursts were still touch'n'go.
The machine also had a habit of going into the "abort sequence", usually half-way through the wash phase itself. This would entail pumping out, and then sitting pretty with all led's flashing in unison! This being an early model, it had no fault locating. Towards the end, after it did this four times the same day, my mother eventually "lost the rag" with this machine, and bought a cheap Hoover (Candy based) model.
Another time, about 1995, the New Wave was washing at breakfast-time. Suddenly there were two loud bangs in succession, and the power went off.
It turned out that there was a nick in the doorseal and water had sprayed down onto the heater terminals during the spin-bursts, blowing it and the plug fuse, and tripping the circuit breaker. This was reason for the subsequent Product Recall; to fit a plastic guard to avoid this scenario. According to the engineer, there had been a fire in another machine!
This machine also had a flawed design in the door-interlock peg. The peg on the door was polypropylene (moulded as part of the door-inner). Through time, the interlock's microswitch acctuator (sharp, pointy "blade"), would scrape and gouge a channel on the peg, each time the door was opened and closed. Eventually, the machine would refuse to start, as the door would appear to be "not closed".
Subsequent "Quattro" machines had a metal alloy peg to alleviate this problem.
A further problem with the New Wave range, was the minimal drum-tub gap. This was to reduce water consumption to 68 litres for a cottons load. Unfortunately, this had a propensity to cause "suds-lock" of too much detergent was used. Even using a normal amount of detergent (normal for the previous Hoover Ecologic 1200) caused the same effect. The detergents we used at that time were Ariel Ultra, then Ariel Future.
The rinsing in the New Wave was quite impressive. The machine had a rinsing procedure called "Dynamic Spin-Rinsing".
Previous Hoover machines would rinse, drain, then do a low level spin, then go onto the next rinse.
The New Wave drained its rinse water, then proceeded to:
distribute, ramp into 500 (or 600rpm) for 10 seconds. Stop;
distribute, ramp into 800rpm for 10 seconds. Stop;
distribute, ramp into 1000rpm for 15 seconds. Stop;
distribute, ramp into 1300rpm for 20 second period. Cut the motor power, and while the drum was decelerating, activate the water valve to spray the laundry with the front-fill water inlet.
Of course, the machine behaved erratically; sometimes it did this sequence, other times it skipped the 1000 and 1300 spins. Probably out of balance, or suds-lock.
Eventually, the final spin was wavering all over the place, but operated okay on the minimum iron programme, so the machine got passed onto a friend who was still using it up until last year.
Darren had a New Wave washer-drier? Apparently after the final spin on the wash cycle, the washer-drier would go through a "deplastering sequence" to attempt to remove the laundry from the circumference of the drum. This entailed tumbling, interspersed with 500rpm spins.
This arrived in 1993, and passed onto a friend in 2000.
The machine arrived on my birthday in 1993, and from day one had niggly problems (the door wouldn't release properly).
The machine was supposed to ramp into a "spin-burst" during washing (every 6th cycle of clockwise motion, according to the Service Data Book: sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. I noticed that if the machine took in stone-cold water only, it would do the spin-bursts. If the water was anywhere near lukewarm, it omitted them.
The Hoover engineer was summoned to fix the door release (belt-pecker needed adjusting) and I mentioned about the erratic spin-bursts. He thought that the motor control was a little rough, so he ordered a new pcb.
Anyway, a week later he came back to fit it, and in the process scratched the front panel! So he had to come back again. Needless to say, the spin-bursts were still touch'n'go.
The machine also had a habit of going into the "abort sequence", usually half-way through the wash phase itself. This would entail pumping out, and then sitting pretty with all led's flashing in unison! This being an early model, it had no fault locating. Towards the end, after it did this four times the same day, my mother eventually "lost the rag" with this machine, and bought a cheap Hoover (Candy based) model.
Another time, about 1995, the New Wave was washing at breakfast-time. Suddenly there were two loud bangs in succession, and the power went off.
It turned out that there was a nick in the doorseal and water had sprayed down onto the heater terminals during the spin-bursts, blowing it and the plug fuse, and tripping the circuit breaker. This was reason for the subsequent Product Recall; to fit a plastic guard to avoid this scenario. According to the engineer, there had been a fire in another machine!
This machine also had a flawed design in the door-interlock peg. The peg on the door was polypropylene (moulded as part of the door-inner). Through time, the interlock's microswitch acctuator (sharp, pointy "blade"), would scrape and gouge a channel on the peg, each time the door was opened and closed. Eventually, the machine would refuse to start, as the door would appear to be "not closed".
Subsequent "Quattro" machines had a metal alloy peg to alleviate this problem.
A further problem with the New Wave range, was the minimal drum-tub gap. This was to reduce water consumption to 68 litres for a cottons load. Unfortunately, this had a propensity to cause "suds-lock" of too much detergent was used. Even using a normal amount of detergent (normal for the previous Hoover Ecologic 1200) caused the same effect. The detergents we used at that time were Ariel Ultra, then Ariel Future.
The rinsing in the New Wave was quite impressive. The machine had a rinsing procedure called "Dynamic Spin-Rinsing".
Previous Hoover machines would rinse, drain, then do a low level spin, then go onto the next rinse.
The New Wave drained its rinse water, then proceeded to:
distribute, ramp into 500 (or 600rpm) for 10 seconds. Stop;
distribute, ramp into 800rpm for 10 seconds. Stop;
distribute, ramp into 1000rpm for 15 seconds. Stop;
distribute, ramp into 1300rpm for 20 second period. Cut the motor power, and while the drum was decelerating, activate the water valve to spray the laundry with the front-fill water inlet.
Of course, the machine behaved erratically; sometimes it did this sequence, other times it skipped the 1000 and 1300 spins. Probably out of balance, or suds-lock.
Eventually, the final spin was wavering all over the place, but operated okay on the minimum iron programme, so the machine got passed onto a friend who was still using it up until last year.
Darren had a New Wave washer-drier? Apparently after the final spin on the wash cycle, the washer-drier would go through a "deplastering sequence" to attempt to remove the laundry from the circumference of the drum. This entailed tumbling, interspersed with 500rpm spins.
tht bottom left pic is the pic of MY newwave lol thts the one tht was on the auction wen i bought it
Nice montage paul!
