Videos of my new GE Hydrowave with Infusor!!!

[pulsator]

Well, it arrived this morning at 9:15am!!! The day before my birthday! What a nice present to myself! This is my new MOL GE Hydrowave with Infusor! Overall, this machine does a surprisingly great job, my only complaint is that the FS dispenser is a joke.

 

[pulsator]

Here it is filling for the rinse using the auto water level.

 

[pulsator]

Rinsing a medium load of towels, notice that it uses a slower speed with a smaller arc on the rinse as well has for the second half of the wash:

 

[pulsator]

Pictures!!!

Fresh out of the box!

 

[pulsator]

Money shot!

 

[pulsator]

Filled up with a load of towels!

 

[pulsator]

Love the angled fill!!!

 

[pulsator]

The LEDs run around the display during fill, apparently this is because it's "calculating the time remaining."

 

[yogitunes]

maybe it does, but it didn't seem to circulate the clothes very well...nice machine...but i prefer the S/S beater bar of the profile version...seen videos of tha one really moving clothes around although it had more water in it....but seem to have very good turn over

 

[pulsator]

It does turn the clothes over very well, it's just very very slow, which I prefer, that way the clothes get a decent scrubbing before moving away from the wash zone. Also, this machine is a GE Profile, did you mean the Harmony machine? That machine is a whole different ball game as the wash plate moves much much faster which IMHO is a LOT rougher on the clothes!

 

[pulsator]

A couple interesting things I've observed....

-The first 2 loads I did in the machine, one large, one medium... The machine only did low speed spins, including the final spin. I thought that there might be a problem, but on the 3rd load and all those after, it went right up to full speed... I know when driving a new car you're supposed to keep it under 55MPH for the first like 50 miles or something, could this have been a similar situation? A breaking in period for the bearings?

-I thought for sure I killed it when the motor just stopped working... However, come to find out, this machine has picky software just like the Calypsos did! One needs to open the lid after each load or the machine will stop working after 3 loads! (I removed the magnet from the lid and stuck it in place of course and never moved it so the machine thought it was closed the whole time!) GE expects you to call for repair for this, but the fix it simply opening and closing the lid 3 times to reset the motor! How dumb? Perhaps they want to void the warranty when this happens because the magnet has been tampered with usually when this occurs...

-Interestingly enough, the regular hardware store magnet is NOT STRONG ENOUGH!! It was strong enough for the regular non-HE Hydrowave machine, but not this one! I tried sticking the magnet from the lid switch to the machine itself and I almost couldn't get it off! The magnet is a LOT stronger now!

-The fabric softener dispenser, while really cool, is a total joke! It dispenses some in the wash, then dumps the rest during the wash spin! FEH! Oh well, I guess I'm forced to watch it until the rinse at least lol!

 

[alr2903]

Early Happy Birthday Jamie, thanks for the vids. alr2903

 

[norfolksouthern]

Question for Jamie

When watching your videos of this machine, I noticed that you have a couple of a Frigidaire 1-18, similar to the one I just acquired recently. How do you feel the new GE infusor compares to the vintage Frigidaire?

NorfolkSouthern

 

[frigilux]

Jamie, you are amassing quite an arsenal of washers. And happy birthday, too!

While the infusor/wash plate design seems to be the future of top-loaders, I still cringe at watching it rub away at clothing with so little water to act as a buffer. I wouldn't be concerned about towels, jeans, etc., but I can just hear buttons ripping off my shirts. Maybe the action is gentler than it appears on video?

I keep reading that loads of sheets/pillowcases are the real challenge for these machines, as they tend to ball up and cause unbalanced conditions. It would be great to see video a load of sheets. There doesn't seem to be any such problem with your mega-big towel load.

Like you, I'm also not concerned with slow rollover. As long as everything makes contact with the "action area" at some point during the wash cycle, I'm happy.

I've never seen an in-post fabric softener dispenser that works as efficiently as a timed-release dispenser.

 

[pulsator]

Norfolksouthern- Actually I haven't had my 1-18 for about a year now, it started making a squealing noise and it was rusting pretty badly so I made room for other machines. As for the Unimatic, I can't say that I know yet! The Unimatic needs a new oil bellow before I can use it, I've only done about 6 loads in that machine before the water bellow ripped and then I ripped the oil bellow trying to replace the water bellow!

Frigilux- I haven't tried a load of button up shirts, so I will do that at some point. The action is quite a bit gentler than it looks, the load isn't rubbing as much as just bouncing around on top of the Infusor. The nice thing about this machine is that it has both auto water level as well as manual, the manual allows water about 2/3 of the way up, so if you want your shirts and things to have more sloshing room, you can make the machine allow that! I will take a video of a load of sheets at some point, mine need to be washed anyway!

 

[askomiele]

Whats that blue thing in the middle of the washplate? It's like a clip or so to remove the plate? Thought it would be better to have a smooth top or so?

 

[lebron]

It's a fabric softener dispenser

 

[pulsator]

Here's a close-up of the lid showing how the fabric softener dispenser is used:

 

[norfolksouthern]

I see...

Bummer on your 1-18 and Unimatic. I'm hoping you'll find the new bellows eventually. For now, I suppose it would make some good living room furniture or a conversation piece anyway.

NorfolkSouthern