The Haier fills about 1/4 for the wash and 1/3 for the rinses. I used 1/2 a cup of Tide Coldwater powder... which was a DUMB thing to do! Especially seeing as how I was only washing one spring jacket... I guess I'm just not used to using FL's with regular detergent. I use Tide HE at dad's all the time in the Duet and it just didn't dawn on me that i was about to use regular soap. That particular cycle, (Cottons,) takes over 2 hours and 20 minutes. 2/3 of the cycle is the wash portion,I stopped it after about 20 minutes of wash. I checked on it before I left to run some errands. If I had left without checking it and it washed for the full 90ish minutes... THAT would have been a nightmare!!!