Todays POD and spin ratings

[aquarius1984]

I have worked out the water remaining in each load after spinning in each machine/weight on todays POD.

1 litre of water weighs 1Kg
450g to a lb

So in the Frigidaire at 1100rpm would mean there was 1.5kg of weight added to the load. 1.5l of water. Thats some extraction rate.

However when I look back to how much water my Zanussi Condensor Dryer collected with 13lb washing.
The resevoir collected about 1.5l from each load.

or in terms of % the frigidaires spin efficiency was leaving 50% of the dry weigh in the clothes. to gain that in the UK you need at least a 1600rpm machine.

I know the bigger the drum the better the G's and all that but it still amzes me 1100rpm or so In a TL makes for A rated spins.
Mums Hoover Quattro left 53% at 1300rpm.....

I know its a rubbish thread but I was having one of life little ponders...... lol

Nick

 

[chestermikeuk]

Spin Speeds!!!

Nick

Not a rubbish thread at all, just think if Frigidaire and other manufacturers had carried on producing the fast spin top loader???, all that energy saved in the drying!!!

1100 spin top loader A rated!!! where would that leave a twinny?? +++++++++++++++A++++++++before & after, but I suspect taken speed, drum circumference and G force factor it could be the same!!!

Mike

 

[cehalstead]

spin speed

I don't know much about the formulas used to compare spin speeds, but I do remember that a full load of towels out of our Unimatic took only 25 minutes to dry in the matching dryer. I also remember how angry my Mother got the first time she washed towels in her new '68 Kenmore after the Frigidaires died. Towels took 90+ minutes to dry.....

 

[appnut]

chuck, I wonder just how many women went through the same "awakening" after having to go to a Kenmore, Whirlpool, GE, Maytag, ... with such an annemic spin, and let's not mention rinsing, or lack thereof. Yeah a lotta women raised the roof about the ropes that the Unimatics made (cuz they didn't load like they were spoze too). But by then, it was too late for them to realize and appreciate what they'd just thrown out. My Aunt, my Dad's SIL, had a WO65-2 that lasted until 1967. She got a Kenmore 70 with a 2nd rinse switch. I remember thinking when I saw it, "My God, what a comedown to have to deal with a Kenmore" I asked her how she liked the washer, she said she liked it, but always had to use the extra rinse for heavy loads like jeans and towels to get all the soap out! I thought, yup and ya coulda gotten a RapidDry 1010.

 

[cehalstead]

angry mom

She just didn't get angry...she went to Sears and told off the salesman who had assured her that the new 900 would spin as fast as the Frigidaire. Those 900's were decent machines,and I loved the timed dispensers. I gave them away (ignorantly foolish) in '90, after her death.

She always took great pains to load the Frigidaires in 4 equal sections, and hardly ever had an unbalanced load...but when it did go cattywampus......WOW!!!!